Society & Economicsarticle2026-10-15

Humans in the Loop: Privacy-Focused AI Solutions for Digital Collections Alt-Text

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Abstract

Librarians collaborated to develop a workflow that utilized a local AI model to retrieve, scan, and create initial alt-text for all repository images to meet ADA Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 at the University of South Florida Libraries with a focus on privacy and ethical human review.

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View paper (DOI)Open access versionOpenAlexZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)Published 2026-10-15

Authors: Amanda Boczar, Jason Boczar, Ann Abney

Institutions: University of South Florida, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign