The framing Anna Cook uses for her talk is an important one: accessibility isn’t something generative interfaces will magically solve; it’s the groundwork we need in order to make those systems trustworthy at all.

I also appreciate the callback in the title. We’ve been here before. The particulars may be new, but the core challenge is familiar: how do we build resilient, inclusive systems when the output is fluid, personalized, or otherwise beyond a designer’s exact control? Accessibility is not a bolt-on answer to that question; it’s where the answer has to begin.