We’re improving accessibility in the Recogito Text Annotator, our open source text annotation library.

Keyboard support is solid, but highlights aren’t directly tied to the text. They're a floating layer above it, breaking screen reader access. If you’ve faced similar a11y issues, I’d love to chat!

Arrows between annotations - a recurring feature request I’ve revisited a few times. Building yet another version in a current project:
• Hand-drawn (no auto layout)
• Can snap to annotations - or not
• Works as both a visual tool & a semantic/data-model link

This feels like the nicest version yet!

New in #IMMARKUS: when you import a #IIIF manifest, IMMARKUS now imports existing annotations (embedded or referenced) into your workspace.

We'd love to test with real-world examples. If you know of IIIF collections with annotations, let us know. Annotated manifests still seem rare in the wild...

Ok, so annotations are sometimes hard to see in #liiive. That's why I added a new button: calling it X-Ray mode for lack of a better name. (Let me know if you have ideas!) Try it now on liiive.now!

With #IMMARKUS, you can already use popular AI services for image transcription. Now, you can also use them for translation! Transcribe a historic source, select the annotation—and translate it with a click.

Reminder: Annotorious brings Photoshop-like selection tools to your browser!

• Intelligent Scissors
• Magnetic Cursor
• WebGPU-powered SegmentAnything

I just wrote proper docs! Usage guides, examples, full API:
github.com/annotorious/...
github.com/annotorious/...

#OpenSeadragon #IIIF

Feature alert: ✂️ #liiive just got a new tool: Photoshop-style Smart Scissors! Automatically trace shape outlines and annotate complex objects in seconds.

Try it now at liiive.now

#IIIF #ImageAnnotation

Because sometimes you want that extra bit of precision: Bezier curve drawing is coming—pixel-perfect annotations for #IMMARKUS, #liiive, and all tools powered by #Annotorious

Not huge news I guess, but might be useful to some #Annotorious users: a plugin for drawing lines and polylines with (optinally) bezier curves! Ping me if you want to test. #ImageAnnotation #IIIF