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Mostly the fact that they completely ignore accessibility. In fact, if Twitter did want to improve the user experience, automatic OCR of such text and generati
by shadowgovt 4y ago
Mostly the fact that they completely ignore accessibility.
In fact, if Twitter did want to improve the user experience, automatic OCR of such text and generation of the corresponding alt tag would be a practical improvement. In fact, general recognition of the content of an image and auto generation of an ALT tag would be a significant improvement.
... But that require them to do actual machine learning as opposed to being the internet's bathroom stall wall.
- xbfjvusb6 4y agoOCR is a solved problem. It's like one call to tesseract and you're done. The fact they haven't done this just shows how inept their employees are.
- snovv_crash 4y agoTesseract has a horrific API and decades of technical debt. Add to this, it's also very sensitive to fonts. So... yeah, OCR is 'solved', but that doesn't mean it's easy.
- xbfjvusb6 4y agoSolved for most the image text I see on social.
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y agoTwitter does a lot of actual machine learning, but mostly to improve ad clickability.