UI automation is necessary for accessibility [LWN.net]

UI automation is necessary for accessibility

Posted Jul 14, 2026 8:47 UTC (Tue) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: UI automation is necessary for accessibility by paulj
Parent article: An update on the scraper situation

You are, however, by definition a "sophisticated user" taking responsibility for your own fraud and security risks.

The whole point of regulation is that unsophisticated users demonstrably don't have the knowledge and experience to take care of those risks, so we push them to the payment networks to handle. And that's why I'm focusing on the "why isn't there a retail platform suitable for unsophisticated users?" - because if you can't do that, you've not got a solution to the hard problems in payments, just to the easy ones.

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UI automation is necessary for accessibility

Posted Jul 16, 2026 6:32 UTC (Thu) by raof (subscriber, #57409) [Link] (2 responses)

And, to amplify that point, the “regulatory friction” preventing this hypothetical universal payment system from becoming mainstream is the technical solution to the fraud and security risks that a mainstream system requires. I am, in fact, reasonably convinced that it is approximately the only feasible technical solution — that any solution to these problems will look a lot like the current regulatory environment, perhaps with some actors shuffled around.

I've certainly never seen a serious attempt to solve these problems which would not rapidly devolve into something looking like the current arrangement (but generally worse).

UI automation is necessary for accessibility

Posted Jul 16, 2026 8:46 UTC (Thu) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link] (1 responses)

> I've certainly never seen a serious attempt to solve these problems which would not rapidly devolve into something looking like the current arrangement (but generally worse).

The growing ecosystem of digital services using various kinds of decentralised, distributed Internet money would disagree with that.

UI automation is necessary for accessibility

Posted Jul 16, 2026 10:53 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> > I've certainly never seen a serious attempt to solve these problems which would not rapidly devolve into something looking like the current arrangement (but generally worse).

> The growing ecosystem of digital services using various kinds of decentralised, distributed Internet money would disagree with that.

"that growing ecosystem of digital services" has _never _ seriously attempted to solve those problems. Quite the opposite, in fact.