[Athen] Image description with JAWS

[Peter Bossley via athen-list]

As a screen reader user I find this really useful for describing social media photos, etc, but would just caution that because it relies on a couple of LLMs to determine what is in the image, it is not suitable for situations where you need to have a really high level of confidence in the accuracy of the description.
So, for example, I would not suggest students use it in the educational setting and professionals shouldn’t rely on it alone in their professional work.


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Subject: [Athen] Image description with JAWS


Freedom scientific has added a touch of AI to JAWS for image descriptions. It’s worth looking into a testing out! Here’s a link.

https://www.toptechtidbits.com/259.html


Wink Harner
Assistive Technology Consulting and Training
Alternative Text Production
Portland OR.

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