- Google has updates for World Accessibility Awareness Day
- New features cover Android and Google Chrome
- You can now ask questions about Gemini on the images on the screen
We have already seen a bunch of updates for Apple products in honor of World Accessibility Awareness Day this week, and now it’s Google’s turn – with four important upgrades on the road to Android and Chrome.
According to the official blog post, the functionality of the Talkback screen reader in Android obtains additional intelligences, in addition to the existing features powered by Gemini. The functionality provides image descriptions for blind and low vision users, even when no text alt is provided.
Now, you will be able to ask Gemini follow -up questions on the image that appears on the screen – so if you need to know what color is something, or what else is displayed in the image, Gemini can help.
There is also an update of expressive legends, which provides subtitles on the screen for everything that has an audio on your phone. These subtitles will now reflect the words, so you can make the difference between “no” and “nooooooooo”, says Google.
Chrome and Linguistic Support
We also have some accessibility improvements to speak with Google Chrome. First of all, digitized PDFs obtain optical recognition of characters (OCR), which means that you can look for text inside and copy this text elsewhere.
For Chrome on Android, Zoom page (above) adds a functionality to allow you to increase the size of the text on the pages, without affecting anything else (such as images or arrangements). To configure the functionality, press the three points (top right) in a tab, then Settings> Accessibility.
Google also improves voice recognition technologies around the world, giving developers more resources for non -standard speech models and non -English -speaking languages, as part of its current Euphoria project initiative.
Finally, a full range of accessibility features is on the way to the Google Bluebook application, which can be used as a test platform. Settlements for dictation and screen technology should make the application more accessible than ever.
