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maybeanerd

@mozilla would be amazing if this offered an API for webapps to use. E.g. mastodons alt text field could detect it has that feature available and provide a suggested alt text to users.

On the other hand this might encourage lower quality alt texts, as that will always be quicker to do than writing down your own alt text.

Maybe keeping it "fallback" only for consumers of content that is missing alt text is best.

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MarjorieR

@maybeanerd @mozilla well we do already have OCR alt-text generation on Mastodon.
I do use that eg to capture the words in the titles for graphs but it requires heavy editing to get rid of the 'junk' (axes numbers, etc.) and to explain what the graph 'says'.
Would ML be able to really do the additional analysis and summarise it?

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