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AI is Turning Phones into Smarter Accessibility Tools. (www.msn.com)
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I appreciate the different accessibility tools this article highlights. I also like Sean Dougherty's suggestion that AI can be helpful for people who use screen reading software by providing quick summaries of web pages. This can help someone find information faster and determine if it is worth reading the article. One aspect that I think the article misses is that accurate alternative text is still going to be very important. AI has a hard time determining the author's intention. AI tools can help to find more information about a picture when there is no alternative text but authors should add alt text to their images. Authors can also use alt text as a base that they can edit from similar to how auto-generated captions are edited today. #accessibility

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