I’m looking to crowd source some feedback. I’ve mentioned here a few times a collection of tools I’ve created called the Image Description Toolkit. The short version of this is that it is a way to get image descriptions that you can save and customize the level of detail you get. This can be a bit of an abstract concept in a world where many still do not understand alt text. So, I’ve put together…
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I have a vastly updated version of my Image Description Toolkit (IDT) available. The 3.0 release builds on the command line workflow tools I released earlier with a guided workflow creation system, analysis tools for combining descriptions, a range of performance statistics on your descriptions and tools to review content from various AI models and prompts. The IDT also includes several other tools for working with image descriptions. A results viewer allows you to browse…
15 CommentsI’ve made another series of updates to what I’m calling the Image Description Toolkit since my last announcement. As a recap, the goal of this toolkit is to take collections of images and videos and create descriptions you can save and do this all with local AI models. Dozens of tools provide descriptions, but it is still difficult to save those descriptions for future review. With the Image Description Toolkit, you get nicely formatted HTML…
Leave a CommentSeveral months ago I announced a highly experimental set of Python scripts I called The Image Description Toolkit. Consider it a fancy name for solving my goal of wanting a way to get thousands of pictures taken from my iPhone and also for the past several decades from whatever phone I was using described and having a permanent description of the photos. I’ve made some key updates, although I’d still say this is categorized as…
Leave a CommentA few years ago I wrote blog posts on what I called Accessibility Island and Ethical Accessibility. In a nutshell these posts outlined the human consequences of accessibility gaps and the need for a better framework to stop leaving this situation to the vagaries of corporate policy as it exists today. I’ve continued to reflect on these topics and wanted to share some suggestions for improvement. The world has also changed since I wrote my…
3 CommentsIt is good to know that AI doesn’t pull any punches. I took the latest Word Online conformance report available from aka.ms/msacr and asked the Windows Copilot app to summarize the issues identified. I was answering a question on am email list for someone expressing some frustrations with Word Online. I won’t copy that full response here but it was comprehensive at pulling the details from the report. I will share the summary. As AI…
Leave a CommentNote: I have tried to make it clear in the text here but everything in this post starting with the text “### blog post” and beyond is a direct copy and paste from ChatGPT and not authored by myself. As AI is introduced into more and more of society, I use it myself for a range of tasks. There’s the obvious picture descriptions, where as someone who’s blind, AI has made meaningful enhancements to many…
Leave a CommentAs a matter of choice, not necessity, I try from time to time to use the various speech and voice input systems in operating systems. My ideal scenario is still to be able to use the computer by voice entirely as well as running a screen meter. I’ve not found a reliable solution as of yet that meets my needs completely. I know there are combinations of solutions that have made great strides in this…
Leave a CommentMicrosoft released the Recall feature for users of Windows Insider builds. I gave the feature a try and made an audio recording with a roughly edited transcript. The short version of my experience is that I can get around Recall but am still trying to figure out how to read search results effectively with a screen reader, hence the title of No Big Finish. Since this blog post is about an AI feature, I’ll offer…
Leave a CommentSometimes you make a handy discovery that makes you wonder why you did not know about it long before. I just had that happen with PowerToys Run, one of the toys included in the full suite of items in the electronic toybox known as Windows PowerToys. PowerToys are a set of utilities that allow you to customize different aspects of Windows and offer functionality that is not directly built in. You can learn more in…
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