By John Glenday

Facebook is coming to the aid of blind and visually impaired members by developing a tool which will enable them to ‘see’ images shared on the social networking platform.

At present such users are restricted to a voice translation of comments written on the platform but pictures have remained dark until now.

To fix this Facebook’s engineers are building an artificial intelligence- based object recognition algorithm which can scan images and make sense of what is depicted, relaying its findings to the user.

The software is the brainchild of Facebook’s first blind engineer, Matt King, who told TechCrunch: “You just think about how Read full story ›

Source: The Drum