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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As far as artificial intelligence goes, 2016 has been the year of deep learning. Brain-inspired neural networks have received massive amounts of investment in time, resources and funding — and, boy, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...