Right to Inspect

The Right to Inspect is the founding governance principle of generative accessibility: no user should be required to accept a generated interpretation they cannot interrogate.

When interfaces are generated, they can't be audited like fixed pages; what can be governed is the system that generates them. So:

• if a system produces a summary, the user can ask for the underlying data;
• if it renders a simplified view, the user can ask for the full complexity;
• if it collapses the interface into one modality, the user can demand another.

The principle isn't only for disabled people. In an AI-mediated world, the tools accessibility needs, inspecting the source, verifying the state, controlling the rendering, become safeguards for everyone. "Accessibility governance becomes information governance. The sidecar becomes the chassis."

Behind the scenes

A real idea, from The Tyrer Framework, by Charli-Jo Tyrer (Carrados, 2026), Part Three. This entry summarises it; the paper is the authority.