Facebook AI improves descriptions of photos for visually impaired

In recent years, Facebook has tried to be more accessible to people who are blind and visually impaired by using alt text for their photos so a screen reader will be able to describe photos they come across their visual feed. Later on they introduced automatic alternative text (AAT) that generates photo descriptions on demand … Read more

Twitter adds descriptions to ‘trending topics’ to explain why they are popular

Twitter updated its trending topics section to help users better understand why a term is popular in a bid to combat bots and conspiracy theories.  The social media platform is pinning tweets to the top of topic threads that represented the trend well and gave added context. In the coming weeks Twitter will start adding … Read more