by Joe Lonergan
Recently Microsoft had their annual Ability summit, and they released a new
accessibility assistant.
This new Accessibility Assistant will help users of Microsoft 365 Office
software make content more accessible. The Accessibility Assistant will
instruct users in real time how to make changes when creating documents and
content, so it becomes more accessible. A new person-shaped icon will be
used to flag the location of accessibility issues across your work, such as
low contrast between text and background.
The Accessibility Assistant will be rolling out in the coming weeks and
months and will eventually be replacing the existing Accessibility Checker
which retrospectively checks for issues on request.
Automatically generated Alt text for images on LinkedIn
Also announced from Microsoft, is that the popular social network for
business people LinkedIn is introducing automatically generated alt text
descriptions and captioning using Azure Cognitive Services, Microsoft's
collection of cloud-based AI features for developers. This is going to be a
form of automated generated captions and image descriptions, so it's
AI-based and is not checked by a real person, but it is much better than
having no alt text.
With Microsoft purchasing Some of Chat GPT's services we will see them
improve things significantly in this area going forward. We really look
forward to the potential of Microsoft's version of Chat GPT 4 which will
accurately convert images into text.
NCBI Technology.
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