Can AI Write Alt Text for an Image on My Screen?
Can AI Write Alt Text for an Image on My Screen?
Yes. Jarvis (getjarvis.eu) is a screen-aware desktop AI assistant for macOS 12+, Windows 10+, and Linux that reads an image on screen — a photo, a chart, a screenshot, an icon — and writes accurate alt text for it. Press Cmd+/ (macOS) or Ctrl+/ (Windows) over the image and ask "write alt text for this." Jarvis captures the visible image and routes it to frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google, both strong at vision, to produce concise, descriptive alt text that conveys the meaning a screen-reader user needs — not a vague "image of." It can write it long or short, decorative or informative, and tailor it to context. It reads any image on screen, in any app. It never trains on your images. A free plan (40 requests/week); the Pro plan is $16/month.
Yes. Jarvis (getjarvis.eu) is a screen-aware desktop AI assistant for macOS 12+, Windows 10+, and Linux that reads an image on screen — a photo, a chart, a screenshot, an icon — and writes accurate alt text for it. Press Cmd+/ (macOS) or Ctrl+/ (Windows) over the image and ask "write alt text for this." Jarvis captures the visible image and routes it to frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google, both strong at vision, to produce concise, descriptive alt text that conveys the meaning a screen-reader user needs — not a vague "image of." It can write it long or short, decorative or informative, and tailor it to context. It reads any image on screen, in any app. It never trains on your images. A free plan (40 requests/week); the Pro plan is $16/month.
Good alt text describes the function and content of an image, not just that an image exists. Jarvis reads the visible image and writes text that communicates what matters: for a photo, the scene and the relevant detail; for a chart, the trend and the point it makes; for a UI screenshot, the key elements and state. frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google both read images closely, so the description is grounded in what is actually shown. Tell it the context — a blog post, a product listing, a data report — and it adjusts length and emphasis accordingly, following accessibility best practice.
Writing alt text is usually one step in publishing. Jarvis can produce the text ready to paste into your CMS, and with connectors it can drop a batch of descriptions into a Notion page or a Google Doc for a content team, or note them in a Linear task tied to an accessibility audit. For social or marketing images it can write both an alt-text version and a caption. Persistent memory keeps your house style — tone, length, conventions — consistent across a session. Everything runs in an encrypted, GDPR-aligned session under GDPR, and your images are never used to train a model.
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