Ben Tillyer, Head of Digital Accessibility at Oxford, talks with Jessica about WCAG’s limits, the messy ethics of unpaid testing by disabled staff, and whether AI could ever help fix it. From alt text to overlays to Oxford’s own machine learning research, this episode pulls no punches—and yes, there’s a cat.

Ben Tillyer, Head of Digital Accessibility at Oxford, talks with Jessica about WCAG’s limits, the messy ethics of unpaid testing by disabled staff, and whether AI could ever help fix it. From alt text to overlays to Oxford’s own machine learning research, this episode pulls no punches—and yes, there’s a cat.

Ben Tillyer, Head of Digital Accessibility at Oxford, talks with Jessica about WCAG’s limits, the messy ethics of unpaid testing by disabled staff, and whether AI could ever help fix it.&nbsp;From alt text to overlays to Oxford’s own machine learning research, this episode pulls no punches—and yes, there’s a cat.

Ben Tillyer – University of Oxford – Reflections on WCAG, AI, and Inclusion

Web accessibility can feel confusing—like a secret club where only the experts know the rules. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Welcome to The Outer Circle, a podcast about the big ideas, the everyday challenges, and the people working to make the web a better place. Hosted by Jessica Chambers, Accessibility Evangelist at Silktide, each episode features honest conversations with accessibility professionals, advocates, and industry experts—from the well-known to the unsung. Their stories are sometimes surprising, always insightful, and guaranteed to get you thinking differently about digital inclusion. If you care about making the web work for everyone, hit subscribe and join us in The Outer Circle.

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Web accessibility can feel confusing—like a secret club where only the experts know the rules. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Welcome to The Outer Circle, a podcast about the big ideas, the everyday challenges, and the people working to make the web a better place. Hosted by Jessica Chambers, Accessibility Evangelist at Silktide, each episode features honest conversations with accessibility professionals, advocates, and industry experts—from the well-known to the unsung. Their stories are sometimes surprising, always insightful, and guaranteed to get you thinking differently about digital inclusion. If you care about making the web work for everyone, hit subscribe and join us in The Outer Circle.

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