Using Cursor, we can easily get a first pass at creating alt text for an image using a language model.
It’s quite straightforward using a multi-modal model/prompt.
For this example, we’ll use claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022.
Here’s what it generates.
The first half is pretty good.
I settled on:
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Using the same approach, I generated alt text for the images in this post as well.
I could see models being helpful accessibility aids for sites that haven’t yet made efforts to make their content broadly accessible.