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From autonomous cars to conversations with robots, artificial intelligence has the potential to transform the lives of disabled people.\u00a0AbilityNet\u2019s senior accessibility and usability consultant Joe Chidzik\u00a0explores some of the ways AI will make the internet more accessible for disabled people.<\/p>\n

1. AI provides language translation and captioning\u00a0for people who are deaf<\/h4>\n

Microsoft offers a free service through the Microsoft Translator app where audio is translated into other languages, and into text (for captions). People who have English as a second language benefit, as do people who are deaf or who have hearing loss.<\/p>\n

Read more about\u00a0Microsoft Translator app helping people who are deaf<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2. AI could provide automatic sign language provision<\/h4>\n

Many users of British Sign Language – or other languages such as American Sign Language – learn BSL as their first language and find it difficult to read\u00a0standard written captions. Prototypes already exist that use AI to deliver\u00a0automatic sign language translation, which would be would be a huge benefit for people who are deaf or have hearing loss.<\/p>\n

Check out\u00a0further information from Nvidia\u00a0on AI and sign language<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3. AI provides automatic image recognition and alt text for people who are blind<\/h4>\n

One of the most common issues with accessibility is the lack of alternative text for images, which means people who are blind or have sight loss could be missing important information. Alt-text is usually added by the person creating the content, but the image recognition power of AI is already providing a solution, with Facebook, Microsoft, Google and many others offering automatic descriptions and captions. It\u2019s not foolproof but it does offer a useful step forward when nothing has been entered information manually.<\/p>\n

Find out more about the Cloud Vision API, image recognition and alt text<\/a>.<\/p>\n

4. AI makes information easier to understand for those with reading difficulties<\/h4>\n

The internet is full of an ever-growing amount of\u00a0information. Distilling that information is a challenge that machine learning is working towards. Services are being developed to automatically summarise lengthy articles by creating short abstracts, or related headlines.<\/p>\n

If done well –\u00a0and it might take machines a while to learn to do it really well\u2014this could be good for creating \u2018easier-to-read\u2019 content or snapshots of articles to help users with reading difficulties or those who feel easily overwhelmed by information.<\/p>\n

Find out more about how\u00a0AI could help us more quickly find the info we need, on Technology Review<\/a>\u00a0and here on\u00a0Machine Learning Mastery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

5. Could AI make\u00a0entire websites accessible?<\/h4>\n

Whether you use Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Cortana, Apple\u2019s Siri or Google Home, voice-based services are built on the power of AI and are now available in millions of devices, from phones to cars to home assistants and many more. Although much of the web is text-based these new devices face a huge challenge in navigation websites that haven\u2019t been designed for this new type of conversational interface.<\/p>\n

One possibility is that machine learning will bring a new type of accessibility to websites \u2013 side-stepping or \u2018fixing\u2019 accessibility barriers so that they can deliver relevant \u00a0answers and information on these new devices. There are still lots of hurdles to jump, but it could be that accessibility in the future will be solved by robots that can navigate inaccessible websites.<\/p>\n

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