Instagram helps visually impaired see photos with AI descriptions
Sunday, December 2, 2018 at 7:33PM
Nicole Batac in Android, Android apps, Apple, Instagram, Mobile, News, Press release, Social Media, app news, iPad apps, iphone

Instagram is making its service more accessible to the visually impaired with its latest update. There is a new artificial intelligence system that’ll automatically generate descriptions of the photos. These can be seen through screen readers that the visually impaired users use to browse the Feed, Explore, and Profile sections of the app. The feature makes use of object recognition technology to identify what items are in the image. If you want to describe the image yourself, you can add custom alternative text as well. You can head to Advanced Settings when posting a photo and there should be a new Write Alt Text option there.

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