Someone asked me the other day if #accessibility has been getting better over the last years.
I feel that's a difficult question to answer. Relatively speaking, maybe, in some aspects, yes it has.
But if I'm brutally honest, better does by no means mean good.
Right now, I'd say accessibility as a whole can be described thusly:

People have, on a whole, felt largely ignored and essentially akin to a dog begging for scraps at the dinner table. Maybe every so often someone somewhere decides to do something, but in general, accessibility is ignored, deprioritized, devalued and at times derided by those who should often know better.
Accessibility is in a state where people would rather use a planet-destroying, ethically questionable slot machine to fix things, because the human slot machine of getting people to care has far worse odds and requires far more effort with often nothing to show for it.
And yet, that probably is still better than a decade ago.

One can argue that using those questionably ethical technologies is just that, ethically questionable. I would very much agree.
And yet... We've had the internet for a good 35 years now, things haven't exactly improved, see also the webAIM Million. See also #Foss project after #floss project with absolutely zero regard for #accessibility until it's way too late.

Ethically questionable, sure, but I can not in good conscience blame anyone who's waited half their life to finally see things improve only to be disappointed taking things into their own hands.
Switch away from big tech? People can't. Pick up any old alternative when a tool of choice funds the far right? People can't.
Stop funding the billionaires? People very well might not be able to.
And that lovely bit of entrapment was all human-wrought. No AI, or i'm sorry, AL, required.
This is the world we live in, and these are the hands we're given. Don't like it? Send a PR and fix it.