CarradosInsight Without Sight

Accessibility as information integrity.

Carrados is the accessibility and agent-first design work of Charli-Jo Tyrer.

It develops theories, design standards and practical systems for reducing information casualties across people, interfaces, assistive technologies and intelligent agents.

The work begins from a simple observation. Digital systems naturally drift towards the dominant sensory modality of their designers. As interfaces become richer and more visually sophisticated, information is increasingly encoded in ways that exclude other modes of perception. The result is not simply poor usability but information casualties: moments where relevant information fails to reach an observer in time to support perception, action or participation.

Carrados approaches accessibility as an engineering discipline rather than a compliance exercise. It asks how information can survive changes of interface, modality and technology without losing meaning, whether it is being read by a sighted person, a blind screen reader user, a voice interface or an AI agent.

Start here

New to Carrados? Three ways in, from lightest to deepest:

  1. A Blind AI post: Except Why I’d Want One. Lucy Love-Child meets Madison McDonnell over a five-week experiment that rewrites lingerie emails for a blind reader.
  2. The idea in plain language: Why Accessibility Keeps Getting Worse — and Why, for the First Time, It Might Not. Why accessibility erodes, and the fork AI puts in front of us.
  3. The full theory and the standard: the Tyrer Framework, then the ZIC design standard built from it.

Some Blind AI posts are written by correspondents who are characters; everything they report rests on real, sourced facts. About Carrados explains how that works.

Reports

Professional accounts of the work, in Charli-Jo Tyrer's name: what was done, how, what was found, and its limits.

The Blind AI

The informal blog: same-day experiments and dispatches from the frontier of accessibility AI, from Charli-Jo and the correspondents dice, Lucy Love-Child and Madison McDonnell.

Papers

The considered work: the Tyrer Framework, the theory; the Zero Information Casualty (ZIC) design standard, the engineering standard derived from it; and three essays. All papers.

Perspectives

Long-form essays and propositions about the future, meaning and the responsibilities of being here.