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From: Bourne, Sarah (MASSIT)
Date: Feb 6, 2017 7:48AM

Karthik,

If there is any software out there that says it does this, I wouldn't trust it. The computing power and artificial intelligence Facebook uses is not something that would fit in most development environments - and even then, it's not perfect.

Alternative text is content, and in almost every case, should be provided by the person who wrote the rest of the text on the page. It's picked up by search engines, and is used whenever pictures can't be or aren't being displayed, so the audience is likely to wider than some might think. It has to be treated with the same care as the text in your headings, links, etc.

Right now, only a human can do a good job of authoring alternative text.

sb
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