fAuLT Text

Speaker: Henri Helvetica
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Web Performance

When speaking Compression of images think about: loading time, formats & sizes

You can't talk about accessibility without talking about user experience.

Missing ALT Text on images leads to poor user experience

Some data, WEB AIM

68% of sites, missing alt TEXT
Tenon.io: issues by affected users, nearly half where vision related
Top test failures fit in 5 categories, ALT text is among them

Alarming Data

Everyday 2 billion photos are uploaded to web.
1.36 Billion photos are missing ALT text

AUTOMATE ALT TEXT (AAT)

2.2 billion have vision impairment across the world. (roughly 1/4 of the worldwide population)

We're applying Computer Vision (CV) to add automated ALT TEXT
Machine learning & artificial intelligence CV is hard!
The data set provided to the algorithm is really important.

IMAGENET (website with 15M images In 22k categories)

CV FAILURES

Gender was misidentified in

Up to 1% of lighter skinned males
Up to 7% on white females
Up to 12% on dark skin males
Up to 35% on dark skin females

References

The WebAIM Million
http://webaim.org/projects/million