Mark Zuckerberg just announced that Facebook has launched an accessibility feature which allows visually impaired people to experience Facebook. The development allows Facebook’s AI to read the user whatever’s happening in a picture, describing the people it recognizes, the scene and the action unfolding.

This new add-on, announced at Zuckerberg’s Townhall Q&A at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, hopes to take advantage of intelligence being able to recognize and describe the five human senses and relay it to those who may not have it.

Facebook has recently become a much more complete platform, having introduced ‘moments’ and safety features to indicate users are safe after disasters, and this should be one more step into making the website that much more accessible and almost motherly towards it users.

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