Comment on Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model"
IllNess@infosec.pub 4 weeks agoIt 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.
Where did you read this? The article says the opposite.
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.
See also my other quotes in this comment.
What you quoted is for the feature to add in images to PDFs. It doesn’t work for existing PDFs with images already.
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).
That’s how I read it atleaat. I could be wrong.
UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Thanks for clarifying