Google announces new accessibility features: How they will help users

Google has announced AI-powered accessibility updates to various apps marking the Global Accessibility Awareness Day. These include a feature using a visual language model to describe images without alt text in Lookout, a better text-to-speech experience which will be coming to Wear OS 4 and expansion of Live Caption on Android.

Lookout’s new Image Q&A mode
Google launched Lookout in 2019 and the app is designed for the blind and low-vision community. It uses AI to help people undertake tasks such as sorting mail and putting away groceries. Google said that a new feature, called “image question and answer”, within Lookout is launching for a select group of people.