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Facebook's Automatic Alternative Text Gives Photo Descriptions to Blind Users

Facebook just launched a program that reads keywords related to images on users’ newsfeeds. Automatic alternative text, or automatic alt text, uses object recognition technology to offer a “richer description” of the photo content. On its Newsroom press page, Facebook stated that 2 billion photos are uploaded across its family of apps every day, and [...]