A library of image descriptions, also known as alt text. Contact: [email protected]
Joined August 2022
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Interested in how the system works? Everything is open source and MIT licensed.
Website: github.com/alt-text-org/www.…
API: glitch.com/edit/#!/api-alt-t…
Hashtag/feed harvester: glitch.com/edit/#!/alt-text-…
I reached a final agreement with @HelloScribely today to take over the alt-text.org project. While some details can't be determined at this point, the code will remain open source, and the project will become a 501(c)(3) with Scribely's support.
I am pausing the alt-text.org project. I am not able to maintain it alone, and costs are exceeding my ability to cover, even with the help I'm receiving.
The technology is there. The need is there. Right now, the resources are not.
Thank you 💜
A malicious actor has been issuing calls to the backend with the intent to cost the project money.
Exactly why is unclear, but for now searches will no longer OCR things.
If you'd like to help cover the cost incurred so far, that would be so welcome. ko-fi.com/hbeck
Hi friends,
It's great to see so many new folks here, welcome! This is a heads up to everyone that's signed up that due to what appears to be a bug on Twitter's side, not all alt text you write is being saved. I'm in touch with them and will hopefully have an update soon 💜
The backend has been moved over to the new image analysis algorithm. This should result in more confidence in matches going forward, but for the time being is causing searches to be very slow.
Moving to more performant hosting is next up on the task list.
Small round of updates:
- With help from a contractor, the site is now much more responsive, and works on mobile at least in my testing
- Issues with the signup process have been resolved, at least on browsers, and if you'd signed up your tweets are populating the library
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Hiring the contractor was necessary, and would not have been possible without the community's support. Thank you all so much for your patience as we get things working, and for your willingness to help us test it.
Together we can make the web more accessible 💜
A bit of original computer vision research conducted while building alt-text.org
Searching a database of images is complicated, and it turns out the limitations faced by us are fairly novel, so we had to give multiple approaches a try.
github.com/alt-text-org/imag…
I just made the API code public, with an MIT license. Take a look around 🙂
github.com/alt-text-org/api.…
The site is back up and appears to be working.
I'm still investigating issues with the automatic alt text gathering, but saving via the @AltTextUtil bot works.
All calculation of fuzzy matching information has been moved to the backend. This will greatly improve...
A short @Patreon post about the project: patreon.com/posts/introducin…
This would not be possible without all of your support 💜
