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From: deborah.kaplan
Date: Nov 19, 2014 12:03PM

And for the forseeable future, it takes a page-context-sensitive human to understand that on this page, the image should be described as "biker on a track," on this other page it should be described as "Danica Patrick at the finish line of the 14th Fun Bike Race," and on yet a third page it should be described as "'Biker as Dawn,' by Ansel Adams."

Deborah Kaplan

On Wed, 19 Nov 2014, Chagnon | PubCom wrote:
> One beautiful facet of language is its massive vocabulary that can describe
> subtle nuances, adding important details to Alt-text. So far, it takes a
> skilled human to see and use "track" rather than "road."