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#FYI I'm waiting to add an icon or badge until alt text can be added for them in Lemmy.

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Experimenting with local alt text generation in Firefox Nightly (hacks.mozilla.org)

submitted 5 months ago by Thinker33@lemmy.world to c/a11y@lemmy.world

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I think AI can help authors develop alt text similar to how auto-generated captions provide a base that a human can edit. I worry that the hype around web browsers using AI to describe images might lead to authors not adding alt text. AI can't determine the author's intention for each image and will miss key details. I do like Firefox's strategy of showing the AI-generated alt text each time an image is added to a PDF and asking the user to validate it.

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