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The title says make your website more accessible for agents... But then the quick start seemingly just acts from the agentic side to find a post on Reddit. So I didn't fully grok what this is about. My initial guess is you use agents on a website, allow them to think long, then come up with some selectors to speed up subsequent tries. But it's really not clear to me

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We extract all the interactive elements from a page like id 1. button id 2. drop-down id 3. textarea.

Then we present this list to the LLM with the task and the LLM outputs input_text(id 3, Hello World).

Finally, we execute the Playwright code to perform the actual action of inputting text into this element.

Could it be referring to the semantic correctness of HTML behind the scenes so AI can reasoned about the content structure? I think this is similar to a11y standards of assigning roles etc to UI elements, so non-AI agents like screen-readers can make sense of the contents.

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