Facebook's new facial recognition efforts help blind users know exactly who's in photos

Facebook is working to make its platform even more accessible for blind users and people with low vision.

In a series of updates announced Tuesday, the company revealed that it will begin using its already-existing face recognition technology to identify people in photographs for Facebook users with screen readers.

Facebook's director of applied machine learning, Joaquin Candela, wrote in a blog post that the new feature will use face recognition alongside the platform's automatic alt-text tool, which launched in 2016.