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@frontenddogma thanks!
Also, like all things AI - Experimental
I just released pdf-crawler, a tool to audit PDF accessibility at scale!
This is a direct "remix" of the brilliant work by the Luxembourg government's #accessibility team & their #simplA11yPDFCrawler - it’s a testament to the power of #OpenSource: a tool built for one #gov can be adapted to help everyone.
I relied heavily on #AI to refactoring the original tech into this GitHub-based scanner. It’s a great example of using AI to amplify good.
Thank you @AccessibilityLU for sharing your work!
This has come up before. Screen readers do not have a limit. Long-desc is no longer supported. However for much longer alt text, it probably makes more sense to put in an aria-described by pointing to a paragraph or page describing the content.
I don't think that a 1500 character limit is unreasonable. Most folks barely do 20.
But then maybe maybe NASA won't like it https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112878868/webb-telescope-alt-text-visually-impaired
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@rjohnston collaboration between levels of government in Canada. We aren't that desperate are we?
Seriously though we can do this and Canadians will be better for it.
What if every project on GitHub had a ACCESSIBILITY.md
Would this commitment at the root of a project change anything?
This is a rough draft of what it could look like:
https://mgifford.github.io/ACCESSIBILITY.md
Laura Carlson