An impressive new AI system from Google can generate music in any genre given a text description. But the company, fearing the risks, has no immediate plans to release it. Detailed in an academic ...

Now you can listen to the music generated by descriptions of great artworks. So the music equivalent of these systems shouldn’t come as much surprise. And yet the implications are extraordinary. A ...

One of the most powerful ways we can improve the accessibility of our website is the creation of alternative text for images. Alternative text, or alt text, is a concise text description conveying the ...

Alt text is read by screen readers, making the content and function of an image accessible to users with visual or cognitive disabilities. It is displayed in place of the image if the image file doesn ...

In the midst of absolutely no internal chaos whatsoever, Twitter’s accessibility team launched a much-requested feature test. Ten percent of users, who make up the test group, will be served reminders ...

Alt text is a short text description of an image published to the internet that can be read aloud by accessibility programs for the blind and visually impaired, including screen readers. But there's ...

How to write text descriptions when text is burned into the image and can't be read by screen readers or braille displays. Part of:How to write text descriptions (alt text) in BBC News articles ...

Often, journalists spend time writing a good caption, then copy and paste it as their text description. This is bad practice and should not be done. A caption must: echo some information already ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Twitter has announced that it’s testing new accessibility features to make alt text descriptions significantly ...

An image with text burned onto it. A screenshot of a WhatsApp message, tweet, or text message. A photograph where there's text in the environment (e.g. road signs, shop signs, clothing). A chart or ...