WebA11y (pronounced Web Ally)

What it does

The app is a Chromium browser-based extension that when installed, has the ability to alter the alt text of all the supported images on the web page it is used in. Most web accessibility fixes depend on the developers of culprit websites following best practices and making necessary changes. However, some developers simply might not care, and people should not be punished for things beyond their control.

WebA11y plans to give some of that control back to the users of the internet. The first step is in fixing the most common violation: "non-existent or unsuitable alternative text for images." With a simple click of a button, WebA11y does absolute "magic" for image alt texts, and it is powered completely by the Gemini API. The best part? This is just the start of WebA11y, and more AI features will be coming in waves.

How I used the Gemini API? To the users of WebA11y, it looks like magic. In reality, Gemini does the heavy lifting. Each individual image URL and accompanying alt text from the web page's HTML are sent to Gemini to both assess and either keep (if suitable) or replace (if unsuitable or blank). Gemini does this in very quick time, and sends the output back. WebA11y then rewrites the alt attribute with the results returned from Gemini.