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Picture Smart AI for JAWS: Making charts and graphs accessible!

Instantly access images – including charts and graphs – with this powerful AI tool!

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AI-generated image descriptions

Remember when. . . ‘automatic image descriptions’ using rudimentary AI was first available on smart phones? Everyone had a good laugh when those image descriptions described a teen as a ten-year old or a 30-year old woman as a 45-year old person. How things have changed! Fast forward to March 2024 and see what JAWS can do with Picture Smart AI.

Since 2019, JAWS has had the Picture Smart feature – the ability to choose a picture and submit it to be analyzed. Picture Smart announced a caption and a string of words that give basic information about the picture, such as what is in the picture (people, human face, dog), the environment (outside, sky, tree,) and possibly what the objects in the picture are doing (sitting, swimming, reading). Keep in mind that AI uses data to learn and adapt – AI teaches itself and is always improving!

JAWS has just [...]

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