Facebook Now Uses AI to Describe Photos to Visually Impaired Users

Facebook has launched a new tool which uses artificial intelligence to describe photos, helping users who are blind or visually impaired better experience their friends' posts.

Facebook has launched a new feature which uses artificial intelligence to describe photos to blind and visually impaired users.

The feature uses object recognition technology to describe photos using key words and is now available for Facebook users on iOS.

Facebook’s Accessibility team explained the technology:

Automatic alternative text, or automatic alt text, is a new feature that generates a description of a photo through object recognition technology for someone who cannot see the photo. Before today, people who are visually impaired could only hear the name of the person who posted the photo as they scrolled past photos on Facebook.

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