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Re: Google Automatic Alts?

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From: deborah.kaplan
Date: Nov 20, 2014 8:00AM

Actually, it would be incredibly useful in publishing, especially
educational publishing. While on the one hand the correct thing
to happen in publishing is for publishers to require content
creators to provide meaningful alt text, in practice that
continues not to happen, year after year, and probably never will
unless there is money in it. So a way to automate detection of
undescribed images and describe them would be a vast improvement
over the status quo, if nothing else.

Deborah Kaplan

On Thu, 20 Nov 2014, Mallory van Achterberg wrote:
> I can see something like this being *very* useful for places where
> images are uploaded via automation and scans of images where the
> human scanner has no good idea wtf the images are (I've done this
> as a library volunteer).
>
> Selective use of something like automated image descriptions would
> help the problem that lots of times the description isn't what's
> needed, but actual alt text. When images need real alts, don't use
> this thing.