Instagram becomes more accessible for people with vision problems

Instagram continues to improve its service with updates that bring new features, such as "Nametags", feature with which users can scan the name of their friends to follow them faster. Recently, the famous social network also announced that they were test a new design for profiles and now he becomes more accessible for people with vision problems.

By a statement on his website, Instagram announced the launch of new alternative text features for people with visual impairments to make the social network of photography even more accessible. Around the world, more than 285 million people are visually impaired. The company therefore believes that many of these people will benefit from the following benefits: a more accessible Instagram.

For this, they introduced Two new improvements make it easy to use Instagram for people with visual impairments. First of all it was added automatic alternative text so that users can listen to the descriptions of the photos in the screen reader when browsing the feed, in Explorer or even in profiles.

Instagram adds text descriptions

This new function uses object recognition technology to generate a description of the photographs so that users with visual problems can get an idea of ​​what is behind listening to these texts, even when browsing the application.

Second, Instagram also introduced a personalized alternative text so that users who upload images to the social network can add a more complete and descriptive description of their photographs. A feature that will also allow people using screen readers to listen to these descriptions.

New features that are the first steps to make Instagram more accessible and from which the company offers more information via the help center.

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