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No. There are certainly AI-generated accessibility solutions for single, existing applications, games and websites but no outright AI-powered screen reader. I'd think the token cost alone would make such a project prohibitively expensive, although one-off AI features are starting to sneak into JAWS and NVDA as we spaek, so who knows.


It's not as though the task requires a frontier size LLM. A small on device model should suffice for most clean up.

But if you did want to run a full size model deepseek v4 flash is so cheap that I doubt even many hours of web browsing would have a noticeable cost.


A relatively small and fast LLM (30b MoE) would probably suffice. Itβ€˜s something you can run locally with a nice GPU.


latency would be the killer. a very tiny delay between pressing a key and hearing a response can make a screen reader feel unresponsive.




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