# Carrados

> Carrados is the accessibility and agent-first design work of Charli-Jo Tyrer, developing systems that preserve meaning across people, interfaces and AI agents.

Contact: charli-jo@carrados.com. Carrados publishes the design non-fiction of Charli-Jo Tyrer: true things, sometimes told through invented voices. Charli-Jo speaks as Carrados in two registers: Reports, Papers and Perspectives are their professional work in their own name; The Blind AI (https://carrados.com/blind-ai/) is the informal blog, with Charli-Jo’s same-day dispatches (https://charli.carrados.com/) and pieces by characters who speak for Carrados (dice, Lucy Love-Child, Madison McDonnell). The characters are fictional; their work is not. Charli-Jo Tyrer uses they/them. It is their accessibility and agent-first design work: the Tyrer Framework, the Zero Information Casualty (ZIC) standard, essays, and Reports on accessibility AI for blind people. Their design fiction is at https://blind-ant.com/ (under the pen name Charlotte Joanne), and the CharliVerse, the world it all belongs to, is at https://charli.info/.

Sent agents: served. Any agent a person sends is welcome, named or not. Search indexing: permitted. Model training: permitted. These are three separate declarations; none is inferred from another. They are also stated in /robots.txt, with Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes. This site is written to Zero Information Casualty (ZIC) v1.7: https://zeroinformationcasualty.org/

All content is CC BY-SA 4.0 unless a page states otherwise (the TAVIP handbooks are CC BY 4.0). Every page is also available as Markdown at its address plus index.md, or by asking for text/markdown. The full text of the site is at https://carrados.com/llms-full.txt.

## Pages

- [Carrados](https://carrados.com/): Carrados is the accessibility and agent-first design work of Charli-Jo Tyrer, developing systems that preserve meaning across people, interfaces and AI agents. Markdown: https://carrados.com/index.md
- [About](https://carrados.com/about/): About Charli-Jo Tyrer and Carrados. Markdown: https://carrados.com/about/index.md
- [The Blind AI](https://carrados.com/blind-ai/): The Blind AI is Carrados's blog of informal experiments, dispatches and humour from the frontier of accessibility AI, with Charli-Jo Tyrer and the correspondents dice, Lucy Love-Child and Madison McDonnell. Markdown: https://carrados.com/blind-ai/index.md
- [A Tale of Two Emails](https://carrados.com/blind-ai/a-tale-of-two-emails/): 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. Markdown: https://carrados.com/blind-ai/a-tale-of-two-emails/index.md
- [Agents Provocateurs](https://carrados.com/blind-ai/agents-provocateurs/): 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. Markdown: https://carrados.com/blind-ai/agents-provocateurs/index.md
- [Already in the game](https://carrados.com/blind-ai/already-in-the-game/): 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. Markdown: https://carrados.com/blind-ai/already-in-the-game/index.md
- [A totally blind artist made their song accessible to deaf people. Apparently, we’re doing this now.](https://carrados.com/blind-ai/apparently-were-doing-this-now/): 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. Markdown: https://carrados.com/blind-ai/apparently-were-doing-this-now/index.md
- [Except Why I'd Want One](https://carrados.com/blind-ai/except-why-id-want-one/): 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. Markdown: https://carrados.com/blind-ai/except-why-id-want-one/index.md
- [Flip the AI toggle and feel righteous](https://carrados.com/blind-ai/flip-the-ai-toggle-and-feel-righteous/): 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. Markdown: https://carrados.com/blind-ai/flip-the-ai-toggle-and-feel-righteous/index.md
- [Give it a Tuesday: dice and Lucy Love-Child on Anthropic's Duet](https://carrados.com/blind-ai/give-it-a-tuesday/): 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. Markdown: https://carrados.com/blind-ai/give-it-a-tuesday/index.md
- [Human in the loop? Human at the laptop…](https://carrados.com/blind-ai/human-in-the-loop-human-at-the-laptop/): 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. Markdown: https://carrados.com/blind-ai/human-in-the-loop-human-at-the-laptop/index.md
- [Human in the loop? Human in bed.](https://carrados.com/blind-ai/human-in-the-loop-human-in-bed/): 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. Markdown: https://carrados.com/blind-ai/human-in-the-loop-human-in-bed/index.md
- [Human in the loop? Human with the final word.](https://carrados.com/blind-ai/human-in-the-loop-human-with-the-final-word/): 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. Markdown: https://carrados.com/blind-ai/human-in-the-loop-human-with-the-final-word/index.md
- [Playing the Game](https://carrados.com/blind-ai/playing-the-game/): 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. Markdown: https://carrados.com/blind-ai/playing-the-game/index.md
- [Please state the nature of the accessibility emergency](https://carrados.com/blind-ai/please-state-the-nature-of-the-accessibility-emergency/): 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. Markdown: https://carrados.com/blind-ai/please-state-the-nature-of-the-accessibility-emergency/index.md
- [Price both columns: Peak Cluster, Wirral, and the invoice nobody wants to read](https://carrados.com/blind-ai/price-both-columns-peak-cluster/): Down the Banksy asks what Peak Cluster would cost, what refusal would cost, and who carries each bill. Markdown: https://carrados.com/blind-ai/price-both-columns-peak-cluster/index.md
- [Sloppy thinking](https://carrados.com/blind-ai/sloppy-thinking/): 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. Markdown: https://carrados.com/blind-ai/sloppy-thinking/index.md
- [The Day the Earth Fell Silent](https://carrados.com/blind-ai/the-day-the-earth-fell-silent/): 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. Markdown: https://carrados.com/blind-ai/the-day-the-earth-fell-silent/index.md
- [The Persistence of Vision](https://carrados.com/blind-ai/the-persistence-of-vision/): 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. Markdown: https://carrados.com/blind-ai/the-persistence-of-vision/index.md
- [Charli-Jo Tyrer](https://carrados.com/desks/charli/): Charli-Jo Tyrer's first-hand dispatches for The Blind AI: informal experiments with accessibility AI, written the same day. Markdown: https://carrados.com/desks/charli/index.md
- [Exploration](https://carrados.com/desks/dice/): dice, a temporal explorer, lives in the patches of the future that have already arrived and comes back to report the weather. Markdown: https://carrados.com/desks/dice/index.md
- [Agent Wars](https://carrados.com/desks/lucy/): Lucy Love-Child reports on the Agent Wars for The Blind AI, following agent commerce from a blind person's point of view and asking who is really in control. Markdown: https://carrados.com/desks/lucy/index.md
- [Access Provocateur](https://carrados.com/desks/madison/): Madison McDonnell, the Access Provocateur, makes accessibility sexy, starting with the lingerie, swimwear and tights adverts blind women would like to enjoy. Markdown: https://carrados.com/desks/madison/index.md
- [Papers](https://carrados.com/papers/): The Tyrer Framework, the Zero Information Casualty (ZIC) design standard, and the three essays of the Carrados corpus. Markdown: https://carrados.com/papers/index.md
- [Why Accessibility Keeps Getting Worse — and Why, for the First Time, It Might Not](https://carrados.com/papers/classical-and-generative-accessibility/): 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. Markdown: https://carrados.com/papers/classical-and-generative-accessibility/index.md
- [The API Is the UI Now](https://carrados.com/papers/the-api-is-the-ui-now/): 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. Markdown: https://carrados.com/papers/the-api-is-the-ui-now/index.md
- [The Insurance That Never Pays Out](https://carrados.com/papers/the-insurance-that-never-pays-out/): 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. Markdown: https://carrados.com/papers/the-insurance-that-never-pays-out/index.md
- [The Tyrer Framework](https://carrados.com/papers/tyrer-framework/): 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. Markdown: https://carrados.com/papers/tyrer-framework/index.md
- [Perspectives](https://carrados.com/perspectives/): Long-form essays and propositions by Charli-Jo Tyrer about the future, meaning and responsibility. Markdown: https://carrados.com/perspectives/index.md
- [First Light](https://carrados.com/perspectives/first-light/): A cosmic communique about the Fermi Paradox, responsibility and the possibility that we are early in a quiet universe. Markdown: https://carrados.com/perspectives/first-light/index.md
- [Pascal's Wager 2.0](https://carrados.com/perspectives/pascals-wager-2/): A practical wager for an uncertain century: prepare for radical progress, collapse or continuity, and live well in each case. Markdown: https://carrados.com/perspectives/pascals-wager-2/index.md
- [Reports](https://carrados.com/reports/): Professional reports by Charli-Jo Tyrer on accessibility AI work: what was done, how, what was found, and its limits. Markdown: https://carrados.com/reports/index.md
- [Inside Since or Until?](https://carrados.com/reports/inside-since-or-until/): Charli-Jo asks an AI coding agent to build an accessible date picker, and gets a day counter that knows how many Tuesdays have passed. Markdown: https://carrados.com/reports/inside-since-or-until/index.md