This does make me wonder. I see on HN (and hello if you see my comment) people who use screen scrapers or screen readers to read and use the web. I would be REALLY interested to know how many of these users use any of these newer AI browsers like Comet, I forget what the one from ChatGPT is called, but I know as a regular user I can make Comet do automated things like price comparisons across tabs and websites. I could totally see the immense value in someone who relies on a screen reader to access the web having access to an AI powered browser, but I don't know that any of them are designed with these users in mind necessarily.
My question then becomes, does this policy violate the ADA for those users in particular? UIf it doesn't today, should it tomorrow? Especially if these AI browsers actually become viable for those users. Will there be a future where if you're protected by ADA you can be cleared to use a more automated browser? I would imagine a sane rule for such an exception would require you to fully identify yourself to the website in order to prevent abuse by bots pretending to need that type of access (the good old "trust me bro" problem). Or maybe they get to use it but it becomes more rate limited to the average user speed or whatever.