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Firefox will use Local AI to improve browsing accessibility
Mozilla is not ignoring the ever-reaching AI boom. However, unlike other companies with gimmicky features, the company is trying to put AI to some good use, namely improve accessibility in Firefox 130
In a recent post on Mozilla Hacks, Tarek ZIade explained how Firefox will use artificial intelligence to improve accessibility, namely by offering AI-generated image captions for people who rely on assistive technologies, such as screen readers. Firefox 130 will ship in the Nightly Channel with a new feature for the PDF editor that will generate alt text using small open-source Transformer-based machine-learning models. According to the blog post, small models can generate alt text with over 200 million parameters while taking less than 200MB of disk space and providing output in a matter of seconds.
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