Google images are a wonderful source of information where you can easily look for images that better suits your needs or understanding. However, it’s not really that useful for visually impaired or low-vision users. Unless and until the website developers start using alt-text for their websites, it’s really not possible for blind people to know what’s on display.

To that end, Google has come up with a new Artificial Intelligence based feature for Chrome which will use machine learning to recognize the images and give text descriptions, reports Fast Company.

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This new advanced feature Chrome is based on the same technology which allows users to search for images by specific keywords and where the image description gets auto-generated.

"The unfortunate state right now is that there are still millions and millions of unlabeled images across the web. 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,” said Laura Allen, a senior program manager on the Chrome accessibility team who’s low-vision herself.

This super handy vision for low-vision people is only going to be available for users with screen readers that are capable of outputting the spoken feedback and braille. Moreover, these image descriptions would only get read out as part of this feature and would not be displayed on the screen. Now, in case you aren’t aware about how to enable this ‘image descriptions’ feature on Chrome, all that you need to do is go to settings and select ‘advanced’. You then go to the "Accessibility" section and turn on the "Get image descriptions from Google."

It’s good to see that Google is leveraging the power of AI and working towards features that makes its popular web browser Chrome more accessible to a wider range of audience.

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