To make PDF accessible to people who rely on screen readers, Google has said it is working on a build-in Chrome browser feature to help fix this problem with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). (Build-in Chrome browser feature). The company is adding the ability to convert images to text for PDFs in the Chrome browser on ChromeOS, which means that even in PDFs that don’t have alt text, screen readers can convert the image to text and read it out loud.
Image description is available in multiple languages
Explain that associated with the alt text image is its description, which can be read by the screen reader. The company is expanding the ‘Get Image Description’ feature and adding even more functionality to PDF, which was launched in 2019. According to Google, image descriptions are available in Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
The company is also bringing ‘reading mode’ tool
The company (Google) is also bringing the ‘Reading Mode’ tool to the Chrome browser, which it announced in March. The tool will make text easier for students to read by enlarging the font and removing distractions. Reading Mode will also be available for the Chrome browser on all computers. The company said that both reading mode and image-to-text (build-in Chrome browser feature) will start rolling out in the coming months.
Company slowly incorporating AI in apps
Google is slowly including AI in all the apps of its workspace lab. Some time ago, Gmail included the ‘Helpmewrite’ tool for beta testers. Now the company is providing AI support in another app of Workspace Lab. Google has started providing an AI tool called “Help me organize” in Google Sheets.
