How users worked with the AI Vision Assistant tool, in their own reported experience.
Nagulan
Before the tool, remote desktop software was simply out of reach for Nagulan. AnyDesk is completely inaccessible with a screen reader, and UltraViewer is fully inaccessible in the same way, so he could not run a session with either one. The only remote option left to him was the NVDA Remote add-on, and that needs NVDA running at both ends of the connection. Sighted people do not use NVDA, so it could never reach them. The result was that connecting remotely to a sighted person was not possible for him at all.
With the tool, he works through both applications on his own, without anyone else helping. AnyDesk and UltraViewer are usable now, so for the first time he can connect remotely to sighted people instead of being limited to other NVDA users.
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Dinesh
Before the tool, Dinesh could not get past the image captcha on the TNPSC application site. The characters existed only as a picture, so every attempt to apply meant waiting for a sighted person to sit beside him and read the captcha aloud. The TN e-Sevai portal blocked him in a different way: the date of birth picker opened only with a mouse, so once again someone else had to take over and click the date for him.
With the tool, he now handles both tasks alone. The tool recognises the captcha and places the text on the clipboard, so even on sites that refuse a direct paste he still has the characters and can enter them himself. On TN e-Sevai he opens the date picker with the keyboard and selects his own date of birth. He reported the first as working, and described the second simply as working well.
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Laxmisagar Samai
Before the tool, the IBPS recruitment registration stopped Laxmisagar at the very first screen. The captcha guarding the form could not be read by a screen reader, so beginning a registration at all depended on finding a sighted person who was free at that moment.
With the tool, the captcha is recognised and placed straight into the field for him. On the occasions when the site rejects text that was pasted rather than typed, the recognised captcha is still waiting on the clipboard, and he singled that clipboard feature out as very useful for exactly those cases. He now works through the registration on his own.
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siddharth
Before the tool, siddharth ran into the same walls across travel booking, banking, shopping and ticketing sites. Dialogs trapped his keyboard focus so he could not escape back to the page. Buttons and form fields announced themselves as nothing more than button, with no indication of what they did. Seat maps and fare grids were drawn on canvas and were invisible to a screen reader altogether. Booking status was carried by colour alone. Session timers ran out silently while he was still working. Each of these meant handing the task over to a sighted person.
With the tool, he moves through these sites independently. Focus stays inside a dialog and returns to the control that opened it once he presses Escape. Unlabelled controls and images are given descriptive labels, so the screen reader announces what each one is for. Canvas drawn elements are presented as structured items he can reach with the keyboard. Status carried by colour is given a text equivalent such as available or booked. Session timers now announce themselves before expiry and offer a single key to extend the session.