Alttext.ai
- Magnus Frank
Altext.ai is an external cloud based AI solution specializing in generating alt text descriptions for images. Using the available KeyShot Dock integrations for Sitecore/Optimizely or the API these texts can be embedded in the HTML on public facing websites ensuring compliance with parts of the European accessibility act.
The integration follows the https://digizuite.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DD/pages/3977871363 architecture. It is deployed with the Dock installation and must be further configured in an automation. The automation step is called Generate Alt text and it can be used once the integration is deployed.
Configuring the automation is done in two places
General configuration
Automation step
The general configuration is available under Administration → Integrations → Integrations configurations. It has two parameters
Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
ApiKey | The API Key from alttext.ai |
DeleteAssetAfterAltTextGeneration | Optional parameter that allows deletion of the upload image to alttext.ai. All images for which an alt text has been requested are stored under the account for the given API key. |
The Automation step it self has the following options
Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
AssetId | The asset id of the asset to generate an alt text for |
Language | The language in which the alt text should be generated. For a full list see the altext.ai FAQ under technical questions https://alttext.ai/support |
Additionally, it returns the alt text in an output parameter called alttext which may be stored in a variable an used to populate a metafield using the standard automation actions.