“Midjourney’s new image-to-text generator is a major advancement for accessibility.
This description can then be used by accessibility software.
Of course, hardly anybody takes the time to add these descriptions.
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And to be honest, it’s an effort that humans should not have to make.
And because text takes up way less storage space than images, the overhead is negligible.
And it’s not just images.
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AI could help with accessibility in other ways too.
“Yes, AI can definitely help improve accessibility in other ways beyond image descriptions.
But the same kinds of AI tools, as we have seen, can have legitimately good uses too.
The benefits of AI-driven accessibility are evident and profound.
