# Charli.info

> Charli.info is the public home of Charli-Jo Tyrer's conceptual art, accessibility and agent-first design work. Public content is available to sent agents, search indexers, and training crawlers under CC BY-SA 4.0.

## Site map

- [Accessibility and Conformance Statement](https://charli.info/accessibility-statement/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/accessibility-statement/index.md) — The ZIC conformance statement for charli.info: the version claimed, the declarations made, what was checked, what was not, and the known defects, stated honestly.
- [Blind Ant](https://charli.info/blind-ant/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/blind-ant/index.md) — Blind Ant is the conceptual art practice of Charli-Jo Tyrer: a gallery of design-fiction Collections, Pieces and People made using generative AI as an artistic medium.
- [Why Accessibility Keeps Getting Worse — and Why, for the First Time, It Might Not](https://charli.info/carrados/classical-and-generative-accessibility/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/carrados/classical-and-generative-accessibility/index.md) — The Tyrer Framework in plain language: why accessibility erodes, the ladder from visual dominance to perceptual sovereignty, and the fork AI puts in front of us. By Charli-Jo Tyrer.
- [Carrados: Accessibility as Information Integrity](https://charli.info/carrados/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/carrados/index.md) — Carrados is Charli-Jo Tyrer's accessibility and agent-first design work, developing systems that preserve meaning across people, interfaces and AI agents.
- [The API Is the UI Now](https://charli.info/carrados/the-api-is-the-ui-now/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/carrados/the-api-is-the-ui-now/index.md) — A quiet note on a framework, an architecture Salesforce built for its own reasons, and a first-class screen reader rendering a blind Salesforce user could have now. By Charli-Jo Tyrer.
- [The Insurance That Never Pays Out](https://charli.info/carrados/the-insurance-that-never-pays-out/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/carrados/the-insurance-that-never-pays-out/index.md) — The Agentic AI Foundation just published the best case for accessibility-as-architecture in years — and then prescribed keeping the exact layer its own witness says never catches up. A reply. By Charli-Jo Tyrer.
- [The Tyrer Framework](https://charli.info/carrados/tyrer-framework/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/carrados/tyrer-framework/index.md) — The Tyrer Framework: accessibility as information integrity. A diagnostic law, a civilisational scale, a design doctrine, and an analysis of the structural break introduced by artificial intelligence. By Charli-Jo Tyrer.
- [Zero Information Casualty (ZIC) v1.5](https://charli.info/carrados/zic-design-standard/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/carrados/zic-design-standard/index.md) — The Zero Information Casualty (ZIC) design standard, version 1.5: an agent-first web specification under which no person — reading directly, using assistive technology, or acting through a sent agent — loses access to public meaning.
- [The CharliVerse](https://charli.info/charliverse/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/charliverse/index.md) — The CharliVerse is now Charli.info, the public home of Charli-Jo Tyrer's work in conceptual art, accessibility, generative AI and agent-first design today.
- [House of Iceberg Bible & Semiotics Imprint | Burlesque | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/collections/burlesque/house-of-iceberg-bible-and-semiotics-imprint/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/collections/burlesque/house-of-iceberg-bible-and-semiotics-imprint/index.md) — The founding house bible for Iceberg Hosiery and Seemiotics, its hosiery imprint.
- [Burlesque | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/collections/burlesque/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/collections/burlesque/index.md) — Burlesque is a Blind Ant design-fiction collection of six objects about identity, technology and bodily sovereignty.
- [Poppy Petticoats and the Magic Wand | Burlesque | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/collections/burlesque/poppy-petticoats-and-the-magic-wand/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/collections/burlesque/poppy-petticoats-and-the-magic-wand/index.md) — A blind witch uses the Library to independently access the instructions for bonding her first magic wand.
- [Tactical™ | Burlesque | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/collections/burlesque/tactical-aegis-dynamics-special-announcement/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/collections/burlesque/tactical-aegis-dynamics-special-announcement/index.md) — Aegis Dynamics announces TACTICAL™, a luxury-branded bra presented as an emotionally resilient support platform.
- [The Bra and Pants of Antigany | Burlesque | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/collections/burlesque/the-bra-and-pants-of-antigany/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/collections/burlesque/the-bra-and-pants-of-antigany/index.md) — A philosophical reconsideration of identity through the incremental replacement of a sentimental lingerie set.
- [The Mile in His Shoes Is Bollocks | Burlesque | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/collections/burlesque/the-mile-in-his-shoes-is-bollocks/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/collections/burlesque/the-mile-in-his-shoes-is-bollocks/index.md) — A reflection on empathy, simulation and why lived experience cannot be borrowed through an imitation of circumstance.
- [VQ4: Felt Is Not Fake | Burlesque | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/collections/burlesque/vq4-felt-is-not-fake/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/collections/burlesque/vq4-felt-is-not-fake/index.md) — The founding document for VQ4, a precision-built girl band with a private constitution and a public myth.
- [Home](https://charli.info/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/index.md) — Charli.info is the public home of Charli-Jo Tyrer: a writer, conceptual artist and accessibility thinker working with AI and design fiction in public.
- [Charlotte Joanne | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/people/charlotte-joanne/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/people/charlotte-joanne/index.md) — Charlotte Joanne is a blind writer and accessibility researcher whose work uses speculative accessibility and street phenomenology to explore perception, agency and public life.
- [First Light](https://charli.info/perspectives/first-light/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/perspectives/first-light/index.md) — A cosmic communique about the Fermi Paradox, responsibility and the possibility that we are early in a quiet universe.
- [Perspectives](https://charli.info/perspectives/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/perspectives/index.md) — Long-form essays and propositions by Charli-Jo Tyrer about the future, meaning and responsibility.
- [Pascal's Wager 2.0](https://charli.info/perspectives/pascals-wager-2/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/perspectives/pascals-wager-2/index.md) — A practical wager for an uncertain century: prepare for radical progress, collapse or continuity, and live well in each case.
- [Big Charli’s Blind Marketing Consultancy™ | Blind Marketing Consultancy | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/blind-marketing-consultancy/big-charlis-blind-marketing-consultancy/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/blind-marketing-consultancy/big-charlis-blind-marketing-consultancy/index.md) — A fictional promotional course that satirises exploitative marketing aimed at blind people.
- [The Crown of Thornes™ | Blind Marketing Consultancy | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/blind-marketing-consultancy/crown-of-thornes/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/blind-marketing-consultancy/crown-of-thornes/index.md) — A fictional product launch for an AI-powered cranial guidance ecosystem that satirises the branding of painful, unwanted accessibility technology.
- [Blind Marketing Consultancy | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/blind-marketing-consultancy/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/blind-marketing-consultancy/index.md) — Blind Marketing Consultancy is a Blind Ant design-fiction piece about the commercial performance of accessibility, led by Big Charli.
- [Official Announcement from LumaSense™ | Blind Marketing Consultancy | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/blind-marketing-consultancy/official-announcement-from-lumasense/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/blind-marketing-consultancy/official-announcement-from-lumasense/index.md) — A fictional LumaSense™ announcement satirising a company that builds AI smart glasses for blind people without consulting blind people.
- [Come and Get Me — Part Two | Come and Get Me | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/come-and-get-me/come-and-get-me-part-two/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/come-and-get-me/come-and-get-me-part-two/index.md) — A cosy speculative accessibility story about a mobility robot and a load-bearing white lie.
- [Come and Get Me | Come and Get Me | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/come-and-get-me/come-and-get-me/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/come-and-get-me/come-and-get-me/index.md) — A cosy speculative accessibility story about thirty metres of gravel and an excellent system.
- [From Battlefield to Biscuits | Come and Get Me | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/come-and-get-me/from-battlefield-to-biscuits/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/come-and-get-me/from-battlefield-to-biscuits/index.md) — A review of Come and Get Me and the quiet revolution of speculative accessibility.
- [Come and Get Me | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/come-and-get-me/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/come-and-get-me/index.md) — Come and Get Me is a cosy speculative accessibility story about technology, independence, and the human rituals that remain worth choosing.
- [Aegis-End™ | DeathBot 2000 | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/deathbot-2000/aegis-end/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/deathbot-2000/aegis-end/index.md) — Aegis-End™ is an Object in DeathBot 2000, a sequenced Blind Ant design-fiction Piece.
- [Aegis-Heir™ | DeathBot 2000 | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/deathbot-2000/aegis-heir/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/deathbot-2000/aegis-heir/index.md) — Aegis-Heir™ is an Object in DeathBot 2000, a sequenced Blind Ant design-fiction Piece.
- [Aegis-Life™ | DeathBot 2000 | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/deathbot-2000/aegis-life/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/deathbot-2000/aegis-life/index.md) — Aegis-Life™ is an Object in DeathBot 2000, a sequenced Blind Ant design-fiction Piece.
- [Meanwhile, in a Brand Meeting | DeathBot 2000 | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/deathbot-2000/brand-meeting/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/deathbot-2000/brand-meeting/index.md) — Meanwhile, in a Brand Meeting is an Object in DeathBot 2000, a sequenced Blind Ant design-fiction Piece.
- [Exit Interview | DeathBot 2000 | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/deathbot-2000/exit-interview/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/deathbot-2000/exit-interview/index.md) — Exit Interview is an Object in DeathBot 2000, a sequenced Blind Ant design-fiction Piece.
- [DeathBot 2000 | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/deathbot-2000/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/deathbot-2000/index.md) — DeathBot 2000 is a sequenced Blind Ant design-fiction Piece about a retired autonomous combat intelligence reassigned to describe live theatre for blind audiences.
- [Aegis Dynamics Announces Groundbreaking “Patriot-to-Patron” Initiative: DeathBot 2000 Series Redeployed for Cultural Accessibility | DeathBot 2000 | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/deathbot-2000/patriot-to-patron-initiative/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/deathbot-2000/patriot-to-patron-initiative/index.md) — A fictional Aegis Dynamics press release announcing DeathBot 2000’s redeployment for theatre audio description.
- [The Booking | DeathBot 2000 | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/deathbot-2000/the-booking/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/deathbot-2000/the-booking/index.md) — The Booking is an Object in DeathBot 2000, a sequenced Blind Ant design-fiction Piece.
- [Do Androids Dream of Electric Ants? | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/do-androids-dream-of-electric-ants/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/do-androids-dream-of-electric-ants/index.md) — Do Androids Dream of Electric Ants? is a Blind Ant Piece about an imagined monumental sign that has never existed.
- [Wirral-Curious: Down the Banksy Comes Over the Water | Down the Banksy | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/down-the-banksy/down-the-banksy-is-apparently-wirral-curious/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/down-the-banksy/down-the-banksy-is-apparently-wirral-curious/index.md) — An interview on Wirral, Peak Cluster and the costs that follow both approval and refusal.
- [Down the Banksy | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/down-the-banksy/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/down-the-banksy/index.md) — Down the Banksy is public moral address: protest objects that issue notices rather than decorate surfaces.
- [Price Both Columns | Down the Banksy | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/down-the-banksy/price-both-columns/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/down-the-banksy/price-both-columns/index.md) — A Down the Banksy public ledger of the costs of approving or refusing the Peak Cluster carbon capture pipeline.
- [The Shirt Knows | Down the Banksy | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/down-the-banksy/the-shirt-knows/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/down-the-banksy/the-shirt-knows/index.md) — “The Shirt Knows” is a Down the Banksy interview on football, Englishness and an anti-racist protest poster about belonging.
- [They Put Me Between Lager and Life Insurance | Down the Banksy | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/down-the-banksy/they-put-me-between-lager-and-life-insurance/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/down-the-banksy/they-put-me-between-lager-and-life-insurance/index.md) — A Down the Banksy interview on the World Cup broadcast adaptation of an anti-racism protest artwork.
- [Mostly Tuesdays | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/mostly-tuesdays/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/mostly-tuesdays/index.md) — An internal Aegis Dynamics brand meeting discovers that the best bra strategy is simply to make a good bra.
- [Grievance Grifter™ | Political Seance | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/political-seance/grievance-grifter/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/political-seance/grievance-grifter/index.md) — A fictional reaction-in-a-box movement starter kit: an online advert from Political Seance.
- [The Hard Centre: Recruitment Manual | Political Seance | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/political-seance/hard-centre-recruitment-manual/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/political-seance/hard-centre-recruitment-manual/index.md) — A fictional craft manual for Hard Centre organisers and posters.
- [Political Seance | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/political-seance/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/political-seance/index.md) — Political Seance is a Blind Ant design-fiction piece exploring the products, pitches and performances of manufactured grievance.
- [The Hard Centre Manifesto | Political Seance | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/political-seance/the-hard-centre-manifesto/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/political-seance/the-hard-centre-manifesto/index.md) — A fictional Hard Centre manifesto: evidence, fairness, responsibility and proportional representation.
- [Dining in the Dark Is Not Blindness | Street Philosophy | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/street-philosophy/dining-in-the-dark-is-not-blindness/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/street-philosophy/dining-in-the-dark-is-not-blindness/index.md) — A reflection on the difference between living as a blind person and the shock of suddenly losing sight.
- [Street Philosophy | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/street-philosophy/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/street-philosophy/index.md) — A four-object Blind Ant piece using domestic thought experiments to examine identity, experience and testimony.
- [The Einstein of the Knicker Drawer | Street Philosophy | Blind Ant](https://charli.info/pieces/street-philosophy/the-einstein-of-the-knicker-drawer/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/pieces/street-philosophy/the-einstein-of-the-knicker-drawer/index.md) — A newspaper feature on Street Phenomenology: a public philosophy built from domestic thought experiments.
- [Together With](https://charli.info/together-with/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/together-with/index.md) — Projects and courses created by Charli-Jo Tyrer together with other people and organisations.
- [Confident with AI | Charli-Jo Tyrer and TAVIP](https://charli.info/together-with/tavip/confident-with-ai/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/together-with/tavip/confident-with-ai/index.md) — A three-part practical course with TAVIP for blind and partially sighted people who want to use generative AI confidently, critically and safely.
- [AI Assistants | Session 1: Confident with AI](https://charli.info/together-with/tavip/confident-with-ai/session-1/ai-assistants/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/together-with/tavip/confident-with-ai/session-1/ai-assistants/index.md) — A TAVIP handbook introducing ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini and Grok, written by Charli-Jo Tyrer.
- [Getting Useful Answers from AI | Confident with AI](https://charli.info/together-with/tavip/confident-with-ai/session-1/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/together-with/tavip/confident-with-ai/session-1/index.md) — Session 1 of Confident with AI, a three-part course with TAVIP.
- [Know What You Are Holding | Session 1: Confident with AI](https://charli.info/together-with/tavip/confident-with-ai/session-1/know-what-you-are-holding/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/together-with/tavip/confident-with-ai/session-1/know-what-you-are-holding/index.md) — Answer-shaped objects and the human judgement that makes them useful, by Charli-Jo Tyrer for TAVIP.
- [Accessing Images, Documents, Tables and Slides | Confident with AI](https://charli.info/together-with/tavip/confident-with-ai/session-2/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/together-with/tavip/confident-with-ai/session-2/index.md) — Session 2 of Confident with AI, a three-part course with TAVIP.
- [Using AI Safely | Confident with AI](https://charli.info/together-with/tavip/confident-with-ai/session-3/) — [Markdown mirror](https://charli.info/together-with/tavip/confident-with-ai/session-3/index.md) — Session 3 of Confident with AI, a three-part course with TAVIP.

## Agent access and policy

- Sent agents: served (ai-input=yes).
- Search indexing: permitted (search=yes).
- Model training: permitted (ai-train=yes).

## Author and licence

- Author: Charli-Jo Tyrer, blind writer, conceptual artist and accessibility thinker.
- Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
- [GitHub repository](https://github.com/CharliVerse/charli.info) — public source front door for this site.