v1.0.0 is live. Released June 30, 2026.
Agent Accessibility Event Protocol
An open standard for AI agents to communicate with assistive technology. Screen readers, AAC devices, Braille displays, and beyond.
Version 1.0.0 ships with 13 reference implementations, 29 conformance tests, and a 5-year stability commitment.
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Specification
The full AAEP v1.0.0 specification. 12 chapters covering events, schemas, conformance levels, and safety semantics.
Quickstart
Get a working AAEP integration running in under 30 minutes with the minimal Python or TypeScript producer.
Guides
Implementer's guide, subscribers' guide, extensions guide, and integration patterns for five common architectures.
JSON Schemas
Canonical JSON Schema definitions for all 12 core event types, 5 handshake messages, and the event envelope.
Governance
How AAEP is governed. Contribution process, code of conduct, roadmap, security disclosure policy, and adopters.
Source code
Specification source, JSON schemas, 13 reference implementations, conformance test suite, and CLI tools.
What AAEP enables
Until today, AI agents and assistive technology had no standardized way to talk to each other. A blind user running an AI coding assistant had no reliable way for their screen reader to announce what the agent was doing, when it needed confirmation, or whether a tool invocation succeeded.
AAEP defines a vendor-neutral protocol for AI agents to emit structured events about their lifecycle, reasoning, tool use, and human-in-the-loop interactions. Assistive technology subscribes to these events and presents them to users in their preferred modality and language.
The protocol is transport-agnostic, supports first-class multilingual operation including Yoruba, Hausa, and Igbo at v1.0.0, and ships with three conformance levels so vendors can certify their implementations.
For different audiences
| If you are… | Start here |
|---|---|
| Building an AI agent or framework | Implementer's Guide |
| Building assistive technology software | Subscribers' Guide |
| Curious about the protocol design | Specification: Introduction |
| Designing an extension | Extensions Guide |
| Considering adopting AAEP at your org | Adopters |
| Tracking what's next | Roadmap |