Chrome is about to make the web much better for blind people

Google's machine learning wizardry is capable of more than just AR emoji. As proven by features like Live Relay , computational recogni...

Google's machine learning wizardry is capable of more than just AR emoji. As proven by features like Live Relay, computational recognition of sound and images can lead to incredible quality-of-life improvements for people hard of hearing or sight. Google's newest trick? Chrome will soon add captions to every image on the web.

Accessibility has been an important focus for the web since its inception; site developers have long been able to add manual captions to images, which are read out if a screen reader is being used, but many sites don't take the time to add captions to all images.

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