I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.
@guilevi Are you aware of @ImageAltText on Twitter? It auto generates the alt texts to any image. I have no knowledge about how well it works, but might be worth to explore.
@FroehlichMarcel@qoto.org cc: @FroehlichMarcel@mastodon.social
@ImageAltText@twitter.com extracts the alt text from images, it doesn’t generate them. That is quite hard to do... ;-)
https://nitter.cattube.org/ImageAltText/status/968931647205838853
#GAFAM companies try to do that, e.g.: #Amazon #Rekognition . But it’s nowhere close to a subjective human description. ;-)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Rekognition
#ComputerVision #AI #ImageDescription