Beyond Pixels

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Inspiration

In today's digital world, accessibility is often overlooked, leaving visually impaired users with limited access to crucial information. While screen readers provide text descriptions, they struggle with image-based content, often reading file paths instead of meaningful descriptions. Inspired by the Hack For Humanity theme, we aimed to bridge this gap by leveraging AI to generate accurate and meaningful image descriptions, ensuring an inclusive web experience for all.

What it does

Beyond Pixels extracts images from web pages and uses AI to generate accurate and context-aware alt text descriptions. These descriptions can then be read aloud by screen readers, allowing visually impaired users to access crucial information from images, banners, and product visuals.

How we built it

We built the solution using modern web technologies and strict accessibility standards. Collaborating with visually impaired users throughout the process ensured our design and features truly addressed their needs.

Challenges we ran into

Integrating advanced accessibility features and ensuring compatibility with diverse assistive technologies were significant challenges.

• Accessing base64 images from various protected platforms.
• Engineering prompts to help visually impaired

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We’re proud of delivering a platform that not only meets high technical standards but also transforms digital accessibility, offering visually impaired users a more independent and enriched online experience.

What we learned

We learned that inclusive design requires deep user engagement and iterative testing. The insights from the visually impaired community were invaluable in shaping an effective, accessible solution.

What's next for Beyond Pixels

We plan to expand our assistive features, integrate more advanced accessibility tools, and continuously refine our approach to make digital content even more inclusive for visually impaired users.

Built With

• ai
• browser
• generative
• javascript
• vision
• web