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image descriptionAn infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including "identify who", "expression", "description", "colour", and "interesting features". The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”

via https://www.perkins.org/resource/how-write-alt-text-and-image-descriptions-visually-impaired/

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A capybara in the library with a candlestick.

[–] ElderberryLow@programming.dev 7 points 6 months ago

He was definitely the murderer

[–] li10@feddit.uk 17 points 6 months ago

Bro I fucking love capybaras so much

10/10 animal, fucking brilliant.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 11 points 6 months ago

I like how “description” is one of the components of the… description.

[–] biptoot@lemmy.today 8 points 6 months ago

This is excellent, very useful for continuing to make images accessible on the fediverse

[–] airbussy@lemmy.one 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Potentially also useful for creating good prompts for AI image generators?

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago

It's essentially by-hand CLIP, that's how the training data for CLIP came into being, it was descriptive text for images.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Is this not the kind of thing machine vision/language models would be really good at?

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

Just as important is “decorative images” where you explicitly leave the alt empty https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/decorative/

[–] bjornsno@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ignorant question: isn't alt text primarily for visually impaired people? If so, what is the point of including info about color?

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

Color can provide useful context. For example, in the case of this image, imagine if in a thread about it there was some discussion of the ripeness of the yuzu fruit.