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).

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

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

  • leanleft@lemmy.ml
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    6 个月前

    There are way more companies who want to text-mine user content than there are blind people using the internet to read my content.