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OCR in images is becoming the norm. It was a big relief on social media for blind and visually impaired people. Asking for manually created image descriptions
by lynx23 3y ago
OCR in images is becoming the norm. It was a big relief on social media for blind and visually impaired people. Asking for manually created image descriptions and/or transcribed text was too much to ask from the social web. So ML found one of its first public use cases. Composite image description and OCR. And yes, the quality is bad. But nobody really cared about this, esp. not those offering the feature. Holy heartlessness basically says "it is for free, so be happy that we gave it away. If it fails, that is not our fault."
- Shared404 3y ago> Asking for manually created image descriptions and/or transcribed text was too much to ask from the social web. Mastodon at least has had a better culture about this in my experience. Possibly worth investigating, and it may have degraded over the last mass migrations.
- lynx23 3y agoI should take a look at Mastodon one day. However, all of this talk of having to maintain your own instance and my very bad experience when looking at Google Plus (the most inaccessible social network ever put out by a large corporation) kind of myke me weary I am wasting my time. Besides, I mostly use FB as an event calendar. As long as someone doesn't mirror all the events announced in my area, I will likely not use it on a regular basis.