Godzilla Eats All the Images Missing ALT Tags
Alan Levine,
CogDogBlog,
Sept 16, 2021
For as long as alt tags existed, two things have been true: people have been saying we should use them, and people have not been using them. So it's no surprise to see aspects of both in this post, this time with reference to Twitter images. "Again casual check of 50 tweeted images. All but 3 of them lack alt image descriptions." Alan Levine describes a back-and-forth with various Twitter tools, with some interesting results (like the auto-generated Japanese alt text). And he concludes, "I am not ready to let bots do the work humans ought to be doing in the first place." From my perspective, though, we are so close to having AI that can generate image descriptions (in the right language, even) that I'm not ready to say that this is something people ought to be doing.
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