CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Apple put an AI coding assistant directly into Xcode.
I tested it with VoiceOver.
Some of it is genuinely useful. It can generate code, fix errors, and work across files.
But the accessibility problems are serious: unlabeled controls, confusing labels, and response views that can become difficult or unsafe to navigate with a screen reader.
I wrote up the full teardown here:
https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/taylors-teardowns-xcode-intelligence
Taylor’s Teardowns is back, just in writing now.
#Accessibility #AppleDevelopment #SwiftDevelopment

Me and @mikedoise just shipped something the Mac has needed for a long time.
Perspective Studio is a free, open-source, native Mac app for running AI models locally. Built entirely on SwiftUI and MLX. No Electron. No cloud. No API keys.
Browse thousands of models from mlx-community. Download straight to your Mac. Chat on device. TTS playground powered by MLX Audio.
This is what local AI should feel like on Apple Silicon. (1/2)

Big thanks to Prince Canuma for MLX Audio and to Awni Hannun, Angelos Katharopoulos, and David Koski for MLX, MLX Swift, and MLX Swift LM.
This is a preview and we want your help. Find something broken? Drop it in the replies or open an issue.
What would you like to see in Perspective Studio next?
https://github.com/Techopolis/Perspective-Studio
#MLX #OpenSource #AppleSilicon #SwiftUI #LocalAI #macOS #Swift (2/2)
@mikedoise

@EdenLinnea @JeffBishop @mikedoise That is really awful. All that documentation is there so you can read it at your own pace

This weekend was something special.
We ran a 16 hour workshop teaching people how to use Git and GitHub accessibly.
From the very beginning. What a repo is. How to clone, commit, push, and collaborate. All of it done with a screen reader.
Then we went further.
Students learned to build their own custom agents with VS Code and GitHub Copilot. @JeffBishop built image agents that are already in the workshop repo and ready to use. (1/2)
@mikedoise

People came in not knowing Git. They left feeling confident enough to contribute to open source.
Thank you to @JeffBishop, @mikedoise, and every single person who made this happen.
This is what accessibility education looks like when the community shows up.
https://community-access.org/git-going-with-github/
#a11y #GitHub #OpenSource #Accessibility #BlindTech #ScreenReader #GitHubCopilot #AIAgents (2/2)

Friday night I published 6 AI agents that enforce accessibility in Claude Code. I was frustrated and tired of fixing the same broken ARIA every session. I shared it and went to bed.
By Saturday morning @JeffBishop was already pushing code. He is blind, like me. He did not ask can I help. He started building. 43 commits in 5 days. He ripped out the part that was not working and replaced it with something better. By Monday we had 47 agents across 3 platforms. (1/3)

30 pull requests. 360 files changed. 73,000 lines of code. 5 days. Built by the community that needs it most.
This is not an overlay. It is a developer tool. One command install. Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Claude Desktop. Free. MIT licensed.
95.9% of the top million sites fail basic accessibility. AI is automating those failures at scale. @JeffBishop and I built this with the community to push back.
Star it. Try it. Break it. Tell us what is missing. (2/3)

Full story: https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/6-agents-on-friday-47-by-monday Press release: https://community-access.github.io/news.html#post/accessibility-agents-v2-launch GitHub: https://github.com/Community-Access/accessibility-agents
#accessibility #a11y #OpenSource #WebAccessibility #WCAG #AssistiveTechnology #ScreenReader (3/3)