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Re: Google Automatic Alts?

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Nov 19, 2014 11:39AM

It looks like it may work quite well for generating a *description* of
images. But a description of what an image looks like is most often
NOT a very good alternative text for the image. Of course it is better
than no alternative at all, but I don't think we should view this as a
replacement or solution for alternative text for images, especially
from an authoring or content creation standpoint. From an end user
perspective, it could be useful to request the automated description
for certain images that do not have alternative text assigned to them.

Jared Smith
WebAIM.org