Facebook is working to make its platform even more accessible for blind users and people with low vision.
In a series of updates announced Tuesday, the company revealed that it will begin using its already-existing face recognition technology to identify people in photographs for Facebook users with screen readers.
Facebook's director of applied machine learning, Joaquin Candela, wrote in a blog post that the new feature will use face recognition alongside the platform's automatic alt-text tool, which launched in 2016.
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