They’re starting this as an experiment in their PDF editor, yes. They then want to extend to PDF reading, and then hope to extend to the general web browsing.
will be available as part of Firefox’s built-in PDF editor
Firefox is able to add an image in a PDF using our popular open source pdf.js library[…] Starting in Firefox 130, we will automatically generate an alt text and let the user validate it. So every time an image is added, […]
In the future, we want to be able to provide an alt text for any existing image in PDFs, except images which just contain text (it’s usually the case for PDFs containing scanned books).
Once the alt text feature in PDF.js has matured and proven to work well, we hope to make the feature available in general browsing for users with screen readers.
IllNess@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
It is for websites. This is most useful for readers that don’t display images. The feature for websites should be added for version 130. I’m on Developer Edition and I am currently on 127. It will be implemented for PDFs in the future after that.
UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Thanks for clarifying
Kissaki@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
Where did you read this? The article says the opposite.
See also my other quotes in this comment.
IllNess@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
What you quoted is for the feature to add in images to PDFs. It doesn’t work for existing PDFs with images already.
That’s how I read it atleaat. I could be wrong.