Facebook Improves Automatic Alt Text for Visually Impaired Users, Now Recognises Over 1,200 Concepts
Facebook’s Automatic Alt Text (AAT) system will be able to identify 10 times more concepts than earlier. By Tanishka Sodhi | Updated: 20 January 2021 14:54 IST
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Highlights
AAT can identify types of animals, landmarks, activities, and more
It will include information about the relative size of elements
Facebook s Automatic Alt Text (AAT) system can now detect and identify 10 times more objects and concepts than it could when it was first launched, announced the company. Descriptions will also be more detailed, and AAT will be able to identify activities, landmarks, types of animals, and more. Facebook announced improvements to AAT, a system introduced by the company in 2016 that uses object recognition to generate descriptions of photos on Facebook and Instagram for visually impaired individuals.