Imagine automating one of the most time-consuming tasks in PDF accessibility: alternate text generation. With PDFix Desktop and OpenAI, you can easily generate accurate alt text for images in bulk PDFs, streamlining your workflow while ensuring full compliance with accessibility standards. This powerful solution not only saves you time and effort but also makes your PDFs more accessible and SEO-friendly. Keep reading to learn more.
Why is Alt Text Important for PDF Accessibility?
Alt text (alternative text) provides a written description of images, charts, and other non-text elements within a document. It plays a critical role in ensuring accessibility by enabling screen readers to help visually impaired users understand visual content. Additionally, alt text is a key requirement for compliance with WCAG and PDF/UA accessibility standards. Beyond accessibility, it also enhances the searchability of your PDFs, improving their visibility in search engines.
Without alt text, your PDFs are not only inaccessible but also non-compliant with legal standards. However, manually adding alt text to every image in a PDF can be very tedious and error-prone. That’s where automation comes in.
How PDFix and OpenAI Simplify Alt Text Generation
PDFix Desktop is an advanced tool that automates the PDF remediation process, ensuring your documents meet PDF/UA compliance – an essential accessibility standard. By integrating OpenAI, PDFix automatically generates accurate alt text for images, graphs, and other visual elements in your PDFs, significantly reducing manual effort.
To enhance the automation capabilities of PDFix Desktop, we created external add-on actions using Docker containers to integrate AI into time-consuming PDF accessibility tasks, automating as many processes as possible in PDF remediation.
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Benefits of Automating Alt Text
- Saves Time: Automating alt text generation reduces manual effort and speeds up the process.
- Improves Accuracy: OpenAI generates descriptive and contextually accurate alt text.
- Ensures Compliance: Automating alt text ensures your PDFs meet WCAG and PDF/UA.
- Scalable Solutions: Docker container allows you to process large volumes of PDFs efficiently.
While technology plays a key role in automating alt text generation, saving time and reducing errors, it is important to manually review the alt text. A professional should ensure that the alt text is not only accurate but also meaningful, thereby improving the user experience for individuals relying on screen readers.
Watch Now: PDFix Desktop Alt Text Automation
Watch our video tutorial to learn how to add external actions into PDFix Desktop and easily run the alt text generation action across multiple PDFs.
