Prompt engineering

The practice of designing and iteratively refining natural language inputs to large language models to elicit more accurate, relevant, or useful responses. In accessibility contexts, prompt engineering is an emerging skill that enables disabled users to customise AI interactions to their specific needs — for example, a blind user specifying the desired level of detail in image descriptions or requesting data summaries in particular formats. Effective prompt engineering can significantly improve the quality of AI-mediated accessibility, but also introduces a new form of digital literacy that may create barriers if not supported by good interface design.