The Hidden Image Descriptions Making the Internet Accessible - The New York Times
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The challenge of describing every image on the internet, and the people who are trying.
Three different alt text examples over a blank box. A painting of a person. May be an image of one person and strawberry. Mona_Lisa,_by_Leonardo_da_Vinci,_from_C2RMF_retouched.jpg Example alt text descriptions from Microsoft Word, Facebook and Wikipedia. By Meg Miller and Ilaria Parogni Feb. 18, 2022 The text boxes above are examples of alt text, which people who are blind or have low vision often rely on when navigating the web. When it’s available, the text can be detected and read aloud or translated into Braille through screen readers, assistive technology that can be accessed in the form
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