Agreed, really enjoy the photo description feature on Facebook. It has came along the long way.
Seyoon Choi syc20...@gmail.com YouTube Video Content Producer Head of Blindinsider www.blindinsider.com Technology news, podcasts, videos and lifestyle for blind and visually impaired > On Mar 5, 2016, at 2:18 AM, Dora Speck <dorasp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Facebook sure has come along way since I first started using it. The greatest > improvement I found they've made is the excessibility feature with pictures > people often post! To a sighted person, I'm not sure if this will make sense > to you, but I will try and describe in the best way I can. When I first > started, Facebook did not have an accessibility feature for describing > photos. All you heard when ever you were looking at Facebook with a screen > reader was, "Photo." Of course, as a blind individual I had no clue what that > picture was of whether it be an object or face up until now. Here we are at > 2016. They've now got to wear my voiceover will actually say the following > when I come across a photo. > "Image may contain, 1 person." And if a person is smiling, it will say, > "Image may contain, 1 person smiling." If there are more than one person in a > photo, it will specify just how many people are with in that photo! I'm very > pleased with Facebook and their accomplishments, and I hope Twitter will do > the same. > > Dora Speck > > [Sent from my iPhone] > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
