Chrome Uses AI to Describe Images for People with Impaired Vision

Oct. 12, 2019

“When you’re navigating with a screen reader or a Braille display, when you get to one of those images, you’ll actually just basically hear ‘image’ or ‘unlabeled graphic,’ or my favorite, a super long string of numbers which is the file name, which is just totally irrelevant.”,says Laura Allen, a senior program manager on the Chrome accessibility team.

Google uses the same technology it uses to give relevant image results based on keywords to make this possible. As of now,the tool has labeled over 10 million imagesduring the testing phase. Users will also be provided with the option to turn the feature on for specific websites or all websites.

Note: The feature is available only to users who use a screen-reader and hence, make sure you have the screen reader turned on if you want to use or try out this feature.

In my brief time of testing, the feature didn’t quite impress me with the results but it is expected to improve over time as the algorithm gets better. So, what do you think of this new Chrome feature? Tell us in the comments.

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