AI-generated alt text knows best

A red plastic crate brimming with small, oval, orange and green kumquats appears above a partial paragraph titled A case of mistaken produce, which includes an identifying overlay for the fruit and red arrows pointing to the crossed out phrase tiny mandarin oranges.

Recently, I integrated this WordPress website with Google’s AI and started looking for problems it could solve. Today, I used the AI to generate descriptive image alt text for screen readers for visually impaired users. It works well, as this example shows. (In yesterday’s micropost, I actually misidentified the produce, AI got it right!) Once I’m sufficiently comfortable with the system, I’ll set the AI loose on all 9,000+ photos in this site’s image library.

A red plastic crate brimming with small, oval, orange and green kumquats appears above a partial paragraph titled A case of mistaken produce, which includes an identifying overlay for the fruit and red arrows pointing to the crossed out phrase tiny mandarin oranges.
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