It's no surprise that many people use their phones to text way more often than they use them to talk to people, but text messages still cost money to send (and in many cases, to receive). This week, ...

As readers know I have been testing out the Samsung Q1 UMPC device and posting a few entries regarding my experiences. I promise to start posting entries about other mobile gadgets soon too, but had ...

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 ...

Blind people and people with severe low vision are mainly confronted with two challenges: That the interactive digital user interfaces can be operated with their screen readers (see Info, Semantics & ...

Screen readers can announce alternative text (or alt text) for images to help ensure that all users can have an equivalent experience. When you add an image to a document, it is your responsibility to ...

Without realizing it, professors often provide documents that cannot be read by text reading software. These are typically documents that have been scanned from another source. Should you encounter ...

Facebook is using artificial intelligence to help blind people “see” photos that appear in the News Feed. Sharing photos on Facebook is a great way for users to communicate, but it is challenging for ...

Alternative text (or alt text for short) is a short description of a graphic that helps people with visual impairments fully understand the content of what's on their screen. Screen readers read alt ...

AI can now generate alternative text on photos, and new settings will help make content easier for people to process. Abrar's interests include phones, streaming, autonomous vehicles, internet trends, ...

If you send more text and photo messages with your smartphone than you actually place calls, you may already have a favorite free texting app or service that you prefer. After all, SMS and MMS cost ...