Facebook developed artificial intelligence and machine learning services to power accessible technology for people who are blind or have low vision: our Automatic Alt Text (AAT) and Face Recognition accessibility tools.
Facebook's mission is to bring the world closer together — and that means everyone. Our goal is to make it possible for anyone, regardless of ability, to access the information and connections that happen on Facebook.
Access is opportunity and when everyone is connected, we all benefit. That's why we're investing in accessibility, sharing our work publicly so others can learn from it, advancing accessibility training in higher education, and contributing to web standards that help make the internet accessible.
Our investments in video captioning and AI are making Facebook a leader in tech accessibility. Our automatic photo captioning tool describes objects in photos to people with vision loss. New face recognition features help people with vision loss to know more about who is in their photos. We also have several closed captioning features to help people who are hearing impaired: closed captions for videos on Facebook via text file upload, automatic video captioning for ads and Pages in the US, and real-time captioning in Facebook Live broadcasts.

Other ways to connect with us:

Visit our accessibility Help center at: http://www.facebook.com/help/accessibility

Report issues at: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/?id=169372943117927

Follow us on twitter @fbaccess: http://twitter.com/fbaccess

https://www.facebook.com/accessibility/

• Canada
• United States of America

• People with disabilities

Facebook is working to provide accessibility tools to the visually impaired through AI and machine learning services.