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Re: Google Automatic Alts?

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From: Bourne, Sarah (ITD)
Date: Nov 19, 2014 11:47AM


I had two first thoughts. Well, reactions - I haven't looked into it enough to have thoughts.

The first was that they are descriptions, and a description is only sometimes suitable as an alternative.

The second was that I disagreed with the categorization of their examples. Their first example of "Describes without errors" actually had an error - that's a man riding a dirt bike on a track, not a road. I don't agree with their self-assessed level of success.

But perhaps I'm being too harsh, and I will try to keep Samuel Johnson's words in mind: "A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse - not a remarkable mathematician."

sb
Sarah E. Bourne
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of L Snider
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 1:26 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Google Automatic Alts?

HI Everyone,

Just saw this on another list. Very interesting concept to create 'automatic' alts... I wonder how it will work in practice?

Google building a natural description of images http://googleresearch.blogspot.ca/2014/11/a-picture-is-worth-thousand-coherent.html

Cheers

Lisa