AI helps millions understand the world. The law should recognize it.

We're building the legal and policy infrastructure to recognize AI comprehension tools as the accessibility aids they already are.

The reality

Millions of people already use AI to read contracts, decode medical forms, and understand legal documents they otherwise couldn't access.

The gap

No legal framework recognizes these tools as legitimate accessibility aids — leaving users unprotected and institutions uncertain.

Our work

We build the doctrine, evidence, and coalition to close that gap — starting with the most defensible case first.

Our Ask

Recognize user-authorized AI comprehension tools as auxiliary aids under existing effective-communication law.

People are losing access to critical information because the law hasn't caught up.

When someone uses AI to understand a document they're legally entitled to access, that tool is doing the work a human aide would — but without legal recognition or protection.

Healthcare

Maria can't understand her diagnosis.

Maria has a cognitive disability. After her appointment, she received a five-page pathology report. She pasted it into an AI tool that explained each finding in plain language.

The hospital patient portal now blocks AI tools from accessing documents.
Housing

James needs to read his own lease.

James has dyslexia. His lease is 47 pages of legal text. An AI tool broke it into plain-language sections and flagged unusual clauses for him.

The property management site's terms of service prohibit "automated access."
Veterans Benefits

David can't parse his benefits letter.

David is a veteran with a traumatic brain injury. His VA benefits determination letter is dense and bureaucratic. AI translated it into language he could act on.

No institutional policy recognizes AI comprehension support as a legitimate accommodation.

Win recognition for AI comprehension tools as legitimate accommodations.

Our first-year goal is focused and intentional: establish that blocking a person's user-authorized AI comprehension tool can be an accessibility barrier under existing effective-communication law.

We start narrow so the law can move first on the most defensible and socially valuable use case. The broader vision — ensuring no one loses meaningful access to digital life because they rely on AI — is the horizon we're building toward.

  • Settings Contracts, benefits notices, medical forms, school documents, employment paperwork, legal information.
  • Needs Cognitive disability, neurodivergence, reading-related disability, and other communication barriers.
  • Tools User-directed AI that explains, summarizes, translates into plain language, and supports comprehension.
  • Policy Agency guidance, model policies, pilots, and sector standards recognizing AI comprehension support.
  • Not Yet Interoperability mandates or universal access claims.

Four coordinated workstreams. One clear goal.

Each workstream produces concrete deliverables for sponsors, policymakers, and the public — building the legal, evidentiary, institutional, and social foundations simultaneously.

01

Legal & Policy

Build the core legal argument connecting user-authorized AI comprehension tools to ADA effective-communication requirements and auxiliary-aids principles.

White PaperGuidance PetitionsModel ADA Memo
02

Evidence & Research

Collect user stories, expert testimony, and documented cases of harm from blocked AI assistance — and develop reliability safeguards that answer safety objections.

Case StudiesExpert AdvisoryHarm Documentation
03

Corporate Standards

Create model policies and technical design principles that help institutions permit AI comprehension support with appropriate trust-and-safety guardrails.

Model PoliciesDesign PrinciplesGuardrails
04

Coalition & Education

Build a disability-rights coalition, recruit plain-language and legal-aid partners, and develop public narratives grounded in civil rights — not industry interest.

Coalition StatementMedia NarrativeLaunch Site
"Imagine you can't understand your own medical diagnosis — and the tool that could help you is blocked."
This is happening now. Not hypothetically.

Disability-led. Sponsor-funded. Mission-firewalled.

AI Access Alliance is a disability-rights initiative — not a tech lobby. We build the legal, policy, and public infrastructure needed for AI comprehension tools to be recognized as legitimate accessibility accommodations.

Corporate sponsors fund the work. A disability-led advisory council governs the mission. Sponsor agreements expressly prevent funders from controlling legal positions or policy recommendations.

We are not speaking for the disability community. We are building a platform for the community to speak.

Disability-Led Governance

The advisory council is composed of disability-rights advocates and people with lived experience. They set mission priorities, not sponsors.

Sponsor-Mission Firewall

Sponsor agreements include explicit provisions: funders support the work but cannot influence legal positions, policy recommendations, or coalition priorities.

Narrowly Focused

We are not asking for general AI rights. We are asking for one specific thing: recognition of user-authorized AI comprehension tools as legitimate auxiliary aids.

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This movement needs sponsors, volunteers, and allies.

Whether you build AI, advocate for disability rights, practice law, or have experienced these barriers firsthand — there's a role for you.

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This is your movement. We need disability-rights advocates, legal researchers, accessibility practitioners, and people with lived experience of these barriers.

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