Use AI to write alt text for your images

Hot off the presses! A brand new module, AI Image Alt Text, uses your configured AI engine to write Alt text for your images, based on AI vision models. When you turn this on, you get a "Generate with AI" button next to image fields, where you can easily get AI to analyze your image and come up with alternative text.

With some quick tests, I'm finding it's describing the image better than I typically do.

Having good alt text is important for Accessibility, but sometimes writing it is a nuisance. One of the things I like about the Mastodon social network is a strong culture of writing good, descriptive alt text for images -- sometimes even better than the posts themselves! Short of spending some serious time crafting good alt text, having AI do it can speed up your writing and improve the overall accessibility of your posts.