# 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.

Carrados publishes the design non-fiction of Charli-Jo Tyrer: true things, sometimes told through invented voices. Charli-Jo speaks as Carrados; some reports are filed by characters who speak for it (dice, Lucy Love-Child, Madison McDonnell). They are fictional; their work is not. It is her accessibility and agent-first design work: the Tyrer Framework, the Zero Information Casualty (ZIC) standard, essays, and Reports on accessibility AI for blind people. Her design fiction is at https://blind-ant.com/ and her own site is https://charli.info/.

All content is CC BY-SA 4.0, and every crawler is welcome, including those that train models. Every page is also available as Markdown at its address plus index.md, or by asking for text/markdown.

## Pages

- [Carrados](https://carrados.com/index.md): Carrados is the accessibility and agent-first design work of Charli-Jo Tyrer, developing systems that preserve meaning across people, interfaces and AI agents.
- [About](https://carrados.com/about/index.md): About Charli-Jo Tyrer and Carrados.
- [Exploration](https://carrados.com/desks/dice/index.md): dice, a temporal explorer, lives in the patches of the future that have already arrived and comes back to report the weather.
- [Agent Wars](https://carrados.com/desks/lucy/index.md): 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.
- [Access Provocateur](https://carrados.com/desks/madison/index.md): Madison McDonnell, the Access Provocateur, makes accessibility sexy, starting with the lingerie, swimwear and tights adverts blind women would like to enjoy.
- [Papers](https://carrados.com/papers/index.md): The Tyrer Framework, the Zero Information Casualty (ZIC) design standard, and the three essays of the Carrados corpus.
- [Why Accessibility Keeps Getting Worse — and Why, for the First Time, It Might Not](https://carrados.com/papers/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.
- [The API Is the UI Now](https://carrados.com/papers/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://carrados.com/papers/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://carrados.com/papers/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://carrados.com/papers/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.
- [Perspectives](https://carrados.com/perspectives/index.md): Long-form essays and propositions by Charli-Jo Tyrer about the future, meaning and responsibility.
- [First Light](https://carrados.com/perspectives/first-light/index.md): A cosmic communique about the Fermi Paradox, responsibility and the possibility that we are early in a quiet universe.
- [Pascal's Wager 2.0](https://carrados.com/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.
- [Reports](https://carrados.com/reports/index.md): Reports from the frontier of accessibility AI for blind people, tried first-hand by Charli-Jo Tyrer. The posts of The Blind AI.
- [A Tale of Two Emails](https://carrados.com/reports/a-tale-of-two-emails/index.md): 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.
- [Agents Provocateurs](https://carrados.com/reports/agents-provocateurs/index.md): 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.
- [Already in the game](https://carrados.com/reports/already-in-the-game/index.md): 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.
- [Except Why I'd Want One](https://carrados.com/reports/except-why-id-want-one/index.md): 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.
- [Playing the Game](https://carrados.com/reports/playing-the-game/index.md): 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.