Add Alt Text to an Image with an LLM and Cursor

Using Cursor, we can easily get a first pass at creating alt text for an image using a language model. It’s quite straightforward using a multi-modal model/prompt. For this example, we’ll use claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022.

Here’s what it generates.

The first half is pretty good.

I settled on:

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Using the same approach, I generated alt text for the images in this post as well.

I could see models being helpful accessibility aids for sites that haven’t yet made efforts to make their content broadly accessible.