Now you can listen to the music generated by descriptions of great artworks. So the music equivalent of these systems shouldn’t come as much surprise. And yet the implications are extraordinary. A ...

An impressive new AI system from Google can generate music in any genre given a text description. But the company, fearing the risks, has no immediate plans to release it. Detailed in an academic ...

One of the most powerful ways we can improve the accessibility of our website is the creation of alternative text for images. Alternative text, or alt text, is a concise text description conveying the ...

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 ...

In the midst of absolutely no internal chaos whatsoever, Twitter’s accessibility team launched a much-requested feature test. Ten percent of users, who make up the test group, will be served reminders ...

How to write text descriptions when text is burned into the image and can't be read by screen readers or braille displays. Part of:How to write text descriptions (alt text) in BBC News articles ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Twitter has announced that it’s testing new accessibility features to make alt text descriptions significantly ...

As journalists we understand how integral representation is to the BBC's public charter commitments, which is why we choose images which reflect our diverse audiences. It's not so straightforward to ...

As far as artificial intelligence goes, 2016 has been the year of deep learning. Brain-inspired neural networks have received massive amounts of investment in time, resources and funding — and, boy, ...

An image with text burned onto it. A screenshot of a WhatsApp message, tweet, or text message. A photograph where there's text in the environment (e.g. road signs, shop signs, clothing). A chart or ...