Leveraging AI for Enhanced Web Accessibility and SEO

This article by Mark Ericksen explores how AI can be harnessed to enhance website accessibility and SEO. The focus is on generating context-aware alt text and captions for images, using OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude LLMs. By leveraging the Elixir LangChain library, AI can process numerous images efficiently, providing descriptive text that improves both accessibility for visually impaired users and search engine visibility. The article details the best practices for creating effective alt text, the importance of context in image descriptions, and demonstrates coding examples to integrate these AI services into a workflow.