How to use Describe
- Drop in an image or a video, or paste one.
- Pick Short or Detailed. Switch off any fact you don't want under Include.
- Read it over, fix names and context only you know, then copy it into the alt text field.
- Whose guidelines does it follow?
- Alexa Heinrich's Accessible Social. It skips "photo of" and "image of" because screen readers already say it's an image, names the medium when it isn't a photo, leads with the viewpoint, quotes every word of text in the image, leaves out emoji and ™ © ® marks, and calls people "person" rather than guessing who they are.
- Is it AI?
- Not the kind that writes. Fixed vision models count objects, read text and pick labels from a set list, and templates turn those facts into sentences. Accessible Social's advice still applies: an automatic description is a starting point, so add what only you know.
Source: Accessible Social by Alexa Heinrich