Chancey's phrase, "dark patterns in accessibility," I believe refers to a sighted approach to problem solving of a situation involving visually impaired. She made an example of the AT&T store, where she would not ask somebody at the store how to use these tools because they wouldn't know how to. She also brings up ghostwriting in terms of coding, which is code that is written supposedly to help the visually impaired community but is not tested on the visually impaired community. I believe that with no knowledge of a problem, you cannot find a solution, and this is the problem with accessibility tools. Max's phrase, "cede authority to the algorithm," I believe refers to the avoidance approach most companies take when it comes to identities. These companies act as though they are not blame, that these decisions are made by an external program, and therefore, that blame is shifted to the decision making algorithm. However, I believe this is a weak excu...