A Web for Everyone? Not Yet.
Why Millions Still Struggle to Access the Internet’s Most Popular Sites?
The internet was built on the promise of connection. But for millions of people with disabilities, that promise is still difficult to reach.
The latest WebAIM Million report, which analyzed one million homepages, reveals the sobering truth: while accessibility has improved slightly, barriers remain everywhere.
This chart shows the average number of detectable errors per home page over time
The chart above shows the number of home page elements detected over the last seven WebAIM Million studies.
A Step Forward… But Miles to Go
This year, accessibility errors dropped from 57 to 51 per homepage that’s equivalent to 10% improvement. Yet 95% of websites still fail basic accessibility checks. That means everyday tasks such as reading the news, shopping online, applying for jobs, booking appointments, sadly, are still blocked for millions.
Everyday Barriers That Exclude
1. Low-contrast text that disappears for those with low vision.
2. Missing image descriptions that leave screen readers silent.
3. Unlabeled form fields that turn sign-ups into guessing games.
4. Vague links & buttons that make navigation nearly impossible.
These aren’t complex problems. As a matter of fact, they’re simple oversights. Yet they exclude millions. When 95% of the web still raise barriers, we’re not talking about design flaws. We’re talking about digital exclusion. And while fixes are simple, progress is painfully slow.
The Future: Help Beyond the Website
At Roscommon, our goal is to address this increasingly complex environment for the blind and visually impaired. With the development of specialized accessibility technology, like our Low-Vision Intelligent Machine Assistant (LIMA) system, we are empowering individuals with real-time screen interpretation, voice-command navigation, and seamless digital interaction that bridges the gap between independence and accessibility.
We envision a world where blind and visually impaired people have a live AI assistant, helping and guiding them navigate websites, describing every changes on their screens, audibly describing images, and improving the speed at which computers are used. With LIMA, they no longer need to rely on developers to add accessibility features; instead, they gain instant clarity, independence, and control.
LIMA bridges the gap today while we fight for a truly accessible web tomorrow.
Here’s what happens when AI reaches superhuman intelligence
With the release of o3 and o4 models by OpenAI, the industry has reached a turning point where AI is ranking higher than the average humans on IQ tests. As of writing, o3 scores 116 IQ on the Mensa Norway IQ test with Googles Gemini 2.5 Pro following at 115.
AI IQ Test results - Credit: https://www.trackingai.org/
So what does this mean for humans? By conventional wisdom, this is the point where AI can begin to self improve, leading to an intelligence explosion that humans cannot control, soon to take control of the nukes, wiping out humanity.
So does this spell the beginning of the end for humanity? In short, no. The famous Terman Study of The Gifted initiated in 1921 followed a cohort of children with IQs of 140 and above. While the study found that a high IQ did correlate with college completion rates, by the 4th follow-up of the cohort, many subjects were found to be pursing typical careers with Terman ultimately concluding “We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.”.
In the current world, there are high IQ groups that rank above Mensa such as the 999 Society, which requires members to hold an IQ 3 standard deviations above the mean (145-172+). Attributes of these exceptionally high IQ individuals like these can be summarized as follows:
Significantly faster learning of complex material
The ability to handle abstract concepts
Rapid pattern recognition
The need to break down complex thoughts into smaller steps when talking with others
What is missing from here however, is the ability to launch nuclear weapons. The ability to learn new and abstract topics does not magically provide the ability to do great harm to society and it does not somehow circumvent the Permissive Action Link protocol used by states to prevent unauthorized nuclear launches. Ultra high IQ likewise does not automatically confer the knowledge to do things, a child with a 140 IQ still needs to learn how to ride a bicycle, like every other child.
In the world of superintelligent AI, it will only have a survivalist instinct to take out humanity if humans actually train it in this manner. In the case that a misaligned computer-use AI is tasked with creating a survivalist AI, the agentic AI still needs a human to prompt it in this manner, a human to log into training servers, and a human to pay for compute.
Even then, the superintelligent malicious AI is still subject to the same constraints that a malicious human is. Things like law enforcement, firewalls, and encryption are not made redundant and if anything, they will improve with the use of properly aligned AI.
Through movies and news media, we are conditioned to think that a super-intelligent AI will suddenly manifest into self-awareness and decide that humanity is its biggest threat. However we have seen through studies of superintelligent humans that intelligence does not automatically grant malicious intent or super powers to carry them out. Finally, any malicious AI will only be the product of malicious humans and still subject to the constraints that humans are.
What is a digital human?
A digital human is an AI that lives on a computer that you can interact with like you would a person. It has thoughts, feelings and can do things just like a human can. In technical terms, a digital human is an Generalized Agentic AI system with a life-like interface.
Our goal at Roscommon Systems is to create digital humans that you can treat as employees. We see a future where AI works for humans, not replacing us but augmenting us. Where humans are not required to do trivial tasks but instead become managers of AI’s that do the work.
Our first foray into this has been with Project MALTA. An AI system that allows a human to control multiple digital humans at once, acting as their manager, assigning tasks and tracking progress. Our goal with this system is to ultimately increase employee productivity, leaving humans to discern quality output and provide guiding advice.
Ultimately we are redefining the workforce by enhancing human capabilities and paving the way for a future where humans focus on high-level decision making and strategic thought.