# For your business to thrive in the agentic AI era, treat accessibility as foundational to your AI strategy

DevFeed: [For your business to thrive in the agentic AI era, treat accessibility as foundational to your AI strategy](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/for-your-business-to-thrive-in-the-agentic-ai-era-treat-accessibility-as-foundational-to-your-ai-strategy-9432.md>)

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Author: Preety Kumar

Published: 2026-07-29T10:51:43Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Deque](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/deque.md>)

Topics: [Accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/accessibility.md>), [AI Strategy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-strategy.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [agentic browsing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agentic-browsing.md>), [AI Bots](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-bots.md>), [aria](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aria.md>), [HTML](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/html.md>), [Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web.md>)

Tags: [accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/accessibility.md>), [accessibility-best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/accessibility-best-practices.md>), [agentic-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic-ai.md>), [agentic-browsing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic-browsing.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-bots](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-bots.md>), [ai-strategy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-strategy.md>), [article](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/article.md>), [digital-accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/digital-accessibility.md>), [html](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/html.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>), [web-accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-accessibility.md>), [web-content-accessibility-guidelines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-content-accessibility-guidelines.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that digital accessibility should be foundational to AI strategy because AI agents increasingly browse, click, complete forms, and interpret web pages through structures also used by assistive technologies. It highlights semantic HTML, ARIA, WCAG conformance, and a sound accessibility tree as important for both human access and agentic navigation, while warning that accessibility failures remain widespread.

## Source excerpt

You need to build accessibility into how AI writes code from the first prompt, not fix it after the fact. And because the disability community has been perfecting human-computer interaction for different input and output modalities for decades, their expertise isn't just morally important; it's technically essential for building robust, reliable AI that actually works. The post For your business to thrive in the agentic AI era, treat accessibility as foundational to your AI strategy appeared first on Deque.