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Anyone else do this? 🧑‍💻 "Act as a copywriter specializing in accessibility. Create short alt text for the following images…"

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Haha, yes, that one was great! I think some blind people use an extension(?) that does something like this, Léonie Watson mentioned it in a talk at my University once. It's always a good idea to ask #a11y experts like @sarasoueidan.com or actual blind devs like Léonie (@tink.uk)

There are lots of options these days. 😊 For example, on iOS you can enable automatic image description at the OS level, Chromium browsers have a similar feature, and these days my screen reader can query ChatGPT/Claude for an image description (hallucinations not withstanding of course)!

It’s basically an instant result—so it’s much faster and way more detailed than I’d think to write at first pass (sometimes too much). Maybe I’m not the best at describing things, but I find it really helpful, especially when most people overlook alt text.

It would be super nice to have a little button when I upload that’s a one click alt text generator. Can imagine it would improve adoption of alt text at the very least.