Samuel
surprisingly controversial, just want to say two things 1. 100% depends on execution. If the model is bad then obviously it won’t be helpful 2. It is obviously no substitute for good human-written alt text. HOWEVER, even though this site has a good culture for writing alt text, only a tiny…
Samuel@samuel.fm· 1 Jun 2024
huge!
Mozilla Developer @mozhacks Firefox 130 is bringing a game-changing feature: automatic alt-text generation for images using a fully private on-device Al model! Initially available in the built-in PDF editor, our aim is to extend this to general browsing for screen reader users.
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Bossett
😬 I don’t think you’re wrong, but the creeping adddition of AI into everything, the provenance of training sets, etc. is more where the problem lies. It also isn’t really alt that *describes*, it’s alt that *describes and contextualises*. Kind of undermines a lot of ‘how to do this right’ effort.
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goeo like the
alt text definitely does not need to contextualise, imo. yes i often do it, but if you can see the image you should _not_ be getting more out of reading the alt text
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Bossett
the contextualisation I'm talking about is things like 'this is Captain America in a scene from the Avengers' instead of just 'this is a man dressed in a blue superhero outfit'
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Samuel
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I suspect modern AI models could handle this, but I guess it depends
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