A hit show about a blind superhero. That a blind person could not follow. That is where this case opens, and it only gets stranger from there.

Brian and Eve sit down with AI and voice design leader Yaddy Arroyo to open four files on the same victim: accessibility. A streaming giant that locked out the exact audience its hero represented. A usability legend who pronounced accessibility dead and prescribed a robot he could not explain. A self-driving car handing blind riders a freedom the experts swore was impossible. And the view from a parent who lives the gap between the spec and the sidewalk every single day.

Four failures. One killer. By the end you will know exactly who keeps pulling the trigger, and why accessibility never actually failed. People keep failing it, then blaming the corpse.

IN THIS EPISODE The Daredevil reversal and the Chicago activist who forced it. Jakob Nielsen's "Accessibility Has Failed" and the community that took it apart. The parent's view from inside the room. And the plot twist on four wheels, where Waymo and Zoox prove that accessibility was never about the technology. It was always about who was in the room.

SOURCES AND FURTHER READING Netflix adds audio description to Daredevil (TIME): https://time.com/3823916/netflix-daredevil-accessible-blind/ After fan pressure, Netflix makes Daredevil accessible (NPR): https://www.npr.org/2015/04/18/400590705/after-fan-pressure-netflix-makes-daredevil-accessible-to-the-blind The fight for audio description, Dare2Describe (The Nerds of Color): https://thenerdsofcolor.org/2015/04/27/the-fight-for-audio-description-on-netflixs-daredevil/ Accessibility Has Failed, Try Generative UI (Jakob Nielsen): https://jakobnielsenphd.substack.com/p/accessibility-generative-ui On Nielsen's generative UI claims (Per Axbom): https://axbom.com/nielsen-generative-ui-failure/ Jakob Nielsen's problematic claims about accessibility (Hidde de Vries): https://hidde.blog/links/jakob-nielsens-problematic-claims-about-accessibility/ NFB and Waymo partnership (Waymo): https://waymo.com/community/articles/national-federation-of-the-blind/ Blind Waymo users revel in the joy of riding alone (NYT via The Star): https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2026/05/25/blind-waymo-users-revel-in-the-joy-of-riding-alone Waymo's accessibility features (AI Weekly): https://aiweekly.co/alerts/waymo-wins-blind-riders-with-accessibility-features Zoox, accessibility, and the curb (Evinced): https://www.evinced.com/blog/zoox-accessibility-and-the-curb Autonomous taxis and accessibility law (Wheelchair Travel): https://wheelchairtravel.org/autonomous-taxis-not-accessible-state-preemption-laws/

GUEST Yaddy Arroyo, AI and voice design leader, fifteen-plus years in conversational AI, voice interfaces, and accessibility-driven design.

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