Waypoint — Building a Universal Intent Layer for the Web

This article was written as part of my submission for the Google Gemini Live Agent Challenge. #GeminiLiveAgentChallenge The problem nobody talks about Try navigating a website using only your keyboard right now. Press Tab. Keep pressing it. Watch the focus indicator jump unpredictably across hundreds of elements before you reach the one thing you actually wanted. This is the daily reality for millions of people with motor disabilities, visual impairments, or conditions that make using a mouse impossible or painful. Tab navigation is the web's accessibility fallback. And it's broken. Not because it doesn't work technically. But because it was designed around actions — move to next element, press enter — rather than intent — I want to find the navigation, I want to search, I want to buy this. The gap between those two things is where Waypoint lives. What exists today and why it falls short Current accessibility tools fall into a few buckets: Screen readers like JAWS and NVDA are powerful