Text is pretty darn accessible to begin with. That the markup has gotten to the point where deciphering it with AI becomes a serious suggestion is fairly depressing.

Perhaps putting the HTML standard on a diet would be a more efficient approach?

Text isn't - and has never been - the problem. It's navigation, and richer information that just text.

Are you sure about that?

I'm a perfectly able person, yet I've had to roll a number of bookmarklets just to make most sites halfway readable. And Jesus help you if you have to rely on a screen reader for the crazy sites we have today.

I think this lady was spot-on in her article, but everyone wants so much control that every website ends up reinventing the wheel, badly.