视障博士生用 ChatGPT 和 Codex 打造无障碍阅读工作流，助 UT Austin 校园达标 WCAG 2.1 AA

You know how in certain books, the first word starts with a giant, stylized capital letter? As it turns out, those big, fancy letters can be a glitch-causing nightmare for screen-reading programs for the visually-impaired. Jaxsen Day, a visually-impaired PhD student at the University of Texas Austin, says the fancy-letter issue is just one example of the many problems faced by modern accessibility tools. Jaxsen used ChatGPT and Codex to solve a lot of those issues, building himself custom workflows that assist with everything from making academic research easier to access, to better interpreting funky, poorly-digitized PDFs. Now, as part of his dissertation, he’s working with Mario Guerra, UT Austin’s Associate Vice President of AI Platforms and Innovation, to use AI to make reading materials more accessible campus-wide. And the pressure is on: under new federal rules, public universities face an April 2027 deadline to ensure their websites and digital materials—including many academic

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