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Experimenting with local alt text generation in Firefox Nightly – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog (hacks.mozilla.org)
 
 

I think this way of implementing and using AI is actually good from all perspectives (probably except some legal aspects but I don't think Mozilla will add a legally grey feature). What do you think about it?

And I'm sorry if it's already posted here. I didn't find any posts on this topic myself

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Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model" (hacks.mozilla.org)
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New accessibility feature coming to Firefox, an "AI powered" alt-text generator.

"Starting in Firefox 130, we will automatically generate an alt text and let the user validate it. So every time an image is added, we get an array of pixels we pass to the ML engine and a few seconds after, we get a string corresponding to a description of this image (see the code).

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Our alt text generator is far from perfect, but we want to take an iterative approach and improve it in the open.

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We are currently working on improving the image-to-text datasets and model with what we’ve described in this blog post..."

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

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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Experimenting with local alt text generation in Firefox Nightly – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog (hacks.mozilla.org)
 
 

Firefox 130 will introduce an experimental new capability to automatically generate alt-text for images using a fully private on-device AI model. The feature will be available as part of Firefox’s built-in PDF editor, and our end goal is to make it available in general browsing for users with screen readers.

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Experimenting with local alt text generation in Firefox Nightly – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog (hacks.mozilla.org)
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