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POUR maps to four agent workflow requirements: perceivable signals, operable handles, understandable reasoning, and robust correction loops.

POUR for Agents

AI agents are now participating in accessibility work. The question is whether we've made our practice available to them. POUR — perceivable, operable, understandable, robust — wasn't just for users.

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A systems diagram showing semantic markup feeding screen reader, browser, and agent parsing paths with POUR nodes and a human review checkpoint.

Accessibility as Alignment Work

The accessibility community has been solving AI alignment problems for decades. POUR principles are alignment primitives. The patterns that make content work for assistive technology are the same patterns that make AI systems trustworthy.

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The Core Four loop diagram with Context, Prompt, Model, and Tools, emphasizing Tools as the trust boundary for typed, logged evidence.

The Core Four Framework

Context, Model, Prompt, and Tools—the four elements of every agentic system. Tools are where trust lives.

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A glass-box workbench diagram showing input, decision tree, evidence trail, human review, and procedure connected through an auditable workflow.

What is Enablement Engineering?

The practice of building AI systems that extend human capability without hiding their reasoning—for domains where trust isn't a feeling, it's documentation.

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A translation schematic moving meaning from a visual chart framework through a reviewable translator into a sequential semantic framework.

Reframing Accessibility: AI as an Epistemological Translator

Accessibility isn't about compliance—it's about translating between fundamentally different ways of knowing. AI changes what's possible.

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A field-note diagram of a ladder reaching toward a yellow sun while prompts, patterns, automations, systems, and agency markers connect to its rungs.

Building Ladders: Extending Human Agency with AI

Technology should amplify human capability, not constrain it. A manifesto for enablement engineering.

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