The Blind AI

The Blind AI is the informal side of Carrados: experiments tried that morning, first-hand dispatches, humour, and the voices of its correspondents. It is also posted on Facebook.

A post here can describe something substantial. When the work behind it deserves a considered account, that account appears in Reports, in Charli-Jo Tyrer's own name.

The desks

• Charli-Jo Tyrer: first-hand dispatches.
• dice: the unevenly distributed future.
• Lucy Love-Child: the Agent Wars.
• Madison McDonnell: the Access Provocateur.

dice, Lucy and Madison are characters who speak for Carrados. They're fictional. Their work isn't.

Posts

• The Day the Earth Fell Silent (29 October 2026): A blind tester pastes what VoiceOver says into an AI coding agent on her iPhone, and a live web app is fixed in minutes, with no sighted developer in between.
• The Persistence of Vision (28 October 2026): A blind designer explains how they made a monogram for a fictional Italian fashion house, by designing it in geometry and code and checking the result through descriptions.
• A totally blind artist made their song accessible to deaf people. Apparently, we’re doing this now. (26 October 2026): A totally blind artist adds readable lyrics and a timed-caption player to their song, with AI agents handling the implementation and caption timing still to be checked.
• Give it a Tuesday: dice and Lucy Love-Child on Anthropic's Duet (25 October 2026): dice and Lucy Love-Child read Every's report on Anthropic's Duet, an always-on agent, and agree how they would judge one: a single recurring task, over time.
• Price both columns: Peak Cluster, Wirral, and the invoice nobody wants to read (25 October 2026): Down the Banksy asks what Peak Cluster would cost, what refusal would cost, and who carries each bill.
• Sloppy thinking (25 October 2026): A definition for the reflex that dismisses AI-assisted work out of hand, and a badge to download, print and cut out for labelling it.
• Human in the loop? Human with the final word. (25 October 2026): The third report of the morning is about two words an AI agent removed while publishing, and why it explained the change instead of asking or hiding it.
• Human in the loop? Human at the laptop… (25 October 2026): After fixing one accessibility problem from bed, Charlotte Joanne ran WAVE and caught something the AI agent's own checker had missed, and the checker was fixed too.
• Human in the loop? Human in bed. (25 October 2026): A screen reader read a list twice, an AI agent fixed four websites from a voice message, and the human who found the bug never got out of bed.
• Except Why I'd Want One (9 October 2026): Lucy Love-Child meets Madison McDonnell over a five-week experiment that rewrites lingerie emails for a blind reader, and loses an argument about corsets.
• Flip the AI toggle and feel righteous (7 October 2026): Buttondown's new switch to block AI from newsletter archives is careful engineering under a frightened headline, and the one reader it forgets is the agent a subscriber sends.
• Agents Provocateurs (2 October 2026): The Agent Wars will be fought over attention, content, friction and breakage, and every wall built to stop the agents is also built across blind people's path.
• A Tale of Two Emails (29 September 2026): An AI agent in WhatsApp signs Charlotte Joanne up for an AbilityNet and Microsoft webinar on AI and accessibility, asks before agreeing to marketing, and adds it to her calendar unasked.
• Playing the Game (25 September 2026): Two more of Taylor Arndt's posts show blind people building on Meta's glasses and giving Muse real chores, which is when the agent questions of permission and status really start to bite.
• Already in the game (24 September 2026): Taylor Arndt's two posts on Meta's Muse show three blind people reaching the interesting questions about agents at the same time as everyone else, friction and all.
• Please state the nature of the accessibility emergency (22 September 2026): Two ordinary questions, an AI agent that followed the task across email and a website and checked it had finished, and a glimpse of what agentic computing can feel like for a blind person.