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From: JP Jamous
Date: Feb 6, 2017 10:47AM

Although I am not opposed to AI, I do second Sarah. AI still has a long way to go despite the major progress it has accomplished.

I think that even at its peak AI will never be smarter than the human mind. It can assist humans just like operating systems and database systems do. However, the bottom line remains can AI analyze without previous knowledge what is occurring? In other words, can it predict or hypothesize like a human mind can?

Notice that on Facebook, it states "Possible or possibly." If I ask my sighted wife, she can immediately tell me oh, "this is a picture of a male with black hair, brown eyes, bla, bla, bla"

So having that definite and not possible description is critical to a sightless user.

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Bourne, Sarah (MASSIT)
Sent: Monday, February 6, 2017 8:48 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] software for alt text?

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.

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Sarah E. Bourne
Director of IT Accessibility, MassIT
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
1 Ashburton Pl. rm 811 Boston MA 02108
617-626-4502
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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of karthik k
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2017 3:53 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] software for alt text?

Hi Rakesh,
the article was really helpful. is there any such software by any company? Is deque working on this?

On 2/6/17, Rakesh P < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> I have done some study on the use of artificial intelligence for
> providing automatic alternate text for images by facebook. The article is here.
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.maxability.co.
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> Hope this helps.
>
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 10:39 AM, karthik k < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
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>> Thanking you,
>> regards
>> Karthik K.
>> Phone no 9060989650
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> is there any software to provide alt text?
>> I came to know that there is some software which can provide alt text
>> and one such software is used in facebook. can you give me some
>> suggestion regarding the same?
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Thanking you,
regards
Karthik K.
Phone no 9060989650