Modern computing revolutionized access to information for the visually impaired. If you’re suffering from complete blindness or low vision, there are plenty of tools to help you access both PCs and mobile devices. 1. Social Media Photo Annotations Facebook and Twitter both have products to help visually impaired users access photos on their social networks. With Twitter’s mobile apps, when uploading pictures with your tweet, you can enable a feature called Accessible Images and add a description (up to 420 characters) to the image. Unfortunately, it’s only available on the Android and iOS apps at the moment. It uses the existing alt text standard,...
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