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Re: Google Automatic Alts?

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From: Don Mauck
Date: Nov 19, 2014 12:26PM

I just don't see how Google could ever get this right. Too many variables and too subjective in my opinion.

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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."