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- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/ebookfoundation/alt-text-frontend
- Owner: EbookFoundation
- Created: 2023-10-08T02:05:14.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2023-11-14T21:24:38.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-05-01T11:41:48.959Z (8 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage: https://alt-text-frontend.vercel.app
- Size: 662 KB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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README
# Alt-Text-Frontend
A Next.js based website meant to showcase the [Alt-Text PyPi Package](https://github.com/EbookFoundation/alt-text).
## Features
Upon creating an account, the user will be able to upload Ebooks (either HTML or EPUB format) to which our servers will analyze it and generate descriptions for images lacking alt-text.
They can then use a dashboard to view, edit, and approve both the generated and already existing alt-text within the Ebook.
A user can create groups in which they can invite other users, allowing for multiple users to edit and approve the alt-text within the group's Ebooks.
## Getting Started
TBD
## Our Mission
The Alt-Text project is developed for the [Free Ebook Foundation](https://ebookfoundation.org/) as a Senior Design Project at [Stevens Institute of Technology](https://www.stevens.edu/).
As Ebooks become a more prominant way to consume written materials, it only becomes more important for them to be accessible to all people. Alternative text (aka alt-text) in Ebooks are used as a way for people to understand images in Ebooks if they are unable to use images as intended (e.g. a visual impaired person using a screen reader to read an Ebook).
While this feature exists, it is still not fully utilized and many Ebooks lack alt-text in some, or even all their images. To illustrate this, the [Gutenberg Project](https://gutenberg.org/), the creator of the Ebook and now a distributor of Public Domain Ebooks, have over 70,000 Ebooks in their collection and of those, there are about 170,000 images without alt-text.
The Alt-Text project's goal is to use the power of AI, Automation, and the Internet to craft a solution capable of automatically generating descriptions for images lacking alt-text in Ebooks, closing the accessibility gap and improving collections, such as the [Gutenberg Project](https://gutenberg.org/).
### Contact Information
The emails and relevant information of those involved in the Alt-Text project can be found below.
#### The Deveolpers
- Jack Byrne
- [email protected]
- David Cruz
- [email protected]
- [David's Website](https://xxmistacruzxx.github.io/)
- [David's Github](https://github.com/xxmistacruzxx)
- [David's LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidalexandercruz/)
- Jared Donnelly
- [email protected]
- Ethan Kleschinsky
- [email protected]
- Tyler Lane
- [email protected]
- Carson Lee
- [email protected]
#### The Client
- Eric Hellman
- [email protected]
#### Advisor
- Aaron Klappholz
- [email protected]
## APIs, Tools, & Libraries Used
Alt-Text is developed and delpoyed using an assortment of modern Javascript frameworks and tools...
### Development Tools
Alt-Text-Frontend is developed using...
- [Next.js](https://nextjs.org/)
- [React](https://react.dev/)
- [Sass](https://sass-lang.com/)
### Packaging/Distribution Tools
Alt-Text-Frontend is deployed using...
- [Vercel](https://vercel.com/ebook-foundation)