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Re: Google Automatic Alts?

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From: Mallory van Achterberg
Date: Nov 20, 2014 12:44PM

Depends probably entirely on how good it is, otherwise you get
the alt version of YouTube automatic "craptions". :P

_mallory

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:00:32AM -0500, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> 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