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April 5, 2016 04:00 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Z0jxfirf1TI/facebook-guesses-whats-in-pictures-to-help-visually-impaired
Facebook Guesses What's In Pictures To Help Visually Impaired
Reader itwbennett writes: Taking the issue of bad image metadata into its own hands, starting today, Facebook will tell users of screen readers what appears in the photos on their timeline. Jeremy Kirk explains: "To describe the images, Facebook built a computer vision system with a neural network trained to recognize a number of concepts, including places and the presence of people and objects. It analyzes each image for the presence of different elements, and then composes a short sentence describing it that is included in the web page as the 'alt' text of the image."These users are often neglected by technology companies. Which is why it's encouraging to see Facebook address the issue. Twitter also recently took a step to improve the user experience of visually impaired people on its social networking website.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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