Facebook to reach people with visual impairment via Artificial Intelligence

With AI-based automatic alternative text feature, Facebook hopes to reach to the millions with blindness or visual impairment to have a feel of what images are actually shared on its platform. Facebook has announced it is launching a new feature that allows visually impaired or blind users of the platform to have an idea of what an image is all about. Termed ‘automatic alternative text’, the feature draws upon artificial intelligence technologies to identify what the image represents. With the new feature, Facebook intends to reach out to the millions of blind or visually impaired users of the social media platform to have access to what can inarguably be considered one of the most sought after features of Facebook, that of posting and sharing photos. Users also get to do…


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