Instagram is considered the most visual among the social platforms, but that doesn’t mean it’s ignoring the visually impaired.
The Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing network detailed two accessibility updates in a blog post Wednesday, aimed at helping the 285 million-plus people in the world who are visually impaired.
Instagram is introducing automatic alternative text, enabling the visually impaired to hear descriptions of photos on its feed, profiles and its Explore tab through their existing screen readers.
The new feature uses object-recognition technology to generate those descriptions, and users of screen readers will be able to hear a list of items that may be contained in photos they encounter while browsing the Instagram application.
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