Accessibility and AI-generated art
Even if you know about accessibility, you can still learn more and get awed by different solutions, in both the digital and physical realms, that are making life easier for people with special needs.
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities states that the access to the physical environment, to transportation, to information and communications, including information and communications technologies and system including the Web, as a basic human right.
How do you explain this image to someone over a voice call? How does a person, who has visual impairment or uses screen readers or browser does not load the images intentionally/ unintentionally, know about what image is conveying? This is how NASA did it when it Tweeted this image and included the following Alt text:
A large galaxy on the right, with two much smaller companion galaxies to the left at 10 o’clock and 9 o’clock. The large galaxy resembles a speckled wheel, with an oval outer ring and a small, off-center inner ring. The outer ring contains pink plumes like wheel spokes, with dusty blue regions in between. The pink areas are silicate dust, while the blue areas are pockets of young stars and hydrocarbon dust. The inner ring is smoother, filled in with a more uniform pale pink. This smaller ring is interwoven with thin, orange-pink threads. On the galaxy’s right edge, a bright white star with 8 diffraction spikes shines. The two companion galaxies to the left, one above the other, are about the same size and both spiral galaxies. The galaxy above is a reverse S shape but similar in coloring and texture as the large ring galaxy. The galaxy below is smoother and largely white, with a blue tinge. The background is black and full of more distant, orange-red colored galaxies of various sizes.
