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One feature we’re starting with next quarter is AI-generated alt-text for images inserted into PDFs, which makes it more accessible to visually impaired users and people with learning disabilities
Is there a community where we can post whatever the popular opinion happens to be at the time? A sister community for !unpopularopinion@lemmy.world seems to be increasingly necessary.
MS Word has this feature and it’s absolutely terrible. 508-compliant alt-text, which were required to include in documents we publish at work, require a couple of sentences of explanation. Word uses like 3 words to describe an image.
It’s great how Firefox can be customized through userChrome.css und user.js. I’m only using the former to put the tab bar in the same row with the url bar to save vertical space while using sidebery/vertical tabs, but it’s good that it’s still available.
Yeah that terrible AI:
But but, AI bad!
Is there a community where we can post whatever the popular opinion happens to be at the time? A sister community for !unpopularopinion@lemmy.world seems to be increasingly necessary.
I hate to break it to you, but right now, AI is being pushed by Tesla, Microsoft, Apple, Google. Pretty much every major megacorporation.
The environmental impacts are staggeringly horrible.
But sure, AI good.
That’s pretty damn awesome
MS Word has this feature and it’s absolutely terrible. 508-compliant alt-text, which were required to include in documents we publish at work, require a couple of sentences of explanation. Word uses like 3 words to describe an image.
There is a slight contextual difference: in word you’re creating content and you should take the time to write alt text.
For this proposed Mozilla feature, it is trying to make up for people who haven’t written any alt text and already published their documents.
It’s just another feature that needs to be turned off on first start.
Why?
I prefer my browser just displaying websites and not doing random AI stuff or telemetry.
Visually impaired people prefer being able to use the browser and actually be able to understand the content of websites.
These features are local, private and improve accessibility, so I really don’t see any similarities with telemetry which can be turned off anyway.
It’s good for them, I guess.
Yes, telemetry can be turned of with
user.jssettings. I hope this can also be turned off that way.It’s great how Firefox can be customized through userChrome.css und user.js. I’m only using the former to put the tab bar in the same row with the url bar to save vertical space while using sidebery/vertical tabs, but it’s good that it’s still available.