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Firefox 130 is bringing a game-changing feature: automatic alt-text generation for images using a fully private on-device AI model! 🙌🏾

Initially available in the built-in PDF editor, our aim is to extend this to general browsing for screen reader users. hacks.mozilla.org/2024/05/expe…


Experimenting with local alt text generation in Firefox Nightly - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

Firefox 130 will feature an on-device AI model that automatically generates alt-text for images, integrated into its built-in PDF editor.
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@AndyGER no, it's not, because AI doesn't know what the intention of the person was to put the image there. But that's an important context that should be reflected by the alt text. Alt text isn't meant to describe what's on the image. It's to provide a textual alternative to the image. If you have an image of a palm tree, you maybe want to say "imagine you are on a tropic island" and not "palm tree on a beach".
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