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@hannah @mozilla is it worse than _no_ alt text? @0x5DA @mozilla It can be useful for a person using a screen reader to have access to an AI description, but crucial there is that said user needs to know that that's the source of said description. There are repeated patterns of those who feel pressured to include descriptions but don't actually care about accessibility doing the absolute minimum, manifesting here as using the direct AI output without examination or editing. So yes, a lack of inline alt text is better than AI gen inline. |
@0x5DA @mozilla I don't have capacity in this moment for the full depth, but it's a bit more complex. Writing alt text that's actually equalizing of access, especially on social media, requires knowledge of multiple layers of context in which an image appears. Similar to other AI types, AI description works impressively *sometimes* but falls down hard on many types of image commonly appearing on SM, often in ways not obviously bad to those writing alt text.
An example: https://bsky.app/profile/hannah.the-void.social/post/3ktzlwoqdkc2h
@0x5DA @mozilla I don't have capacity in this moment for the full depth, but it's a bit more complex. Writing alt text that's actually equalizing of access, especially on social media, requires knowledge of multiple layers of context in which an image appears. Similar to other AI types, AI description works impressively *sometimes* but falls down hard on many types of image commonly appearing on SM, often in ways not obviously bad to those writing alt text.