TikTok is introducing new accessibility options that make it simpler for folks with visible impairments to see textual content and use display screen readers on the platform. After including alt textual content help for nonetheless photographs in April, TikTok is now testing a characteristic that mechanically provides an AI-generated alt textual content description to pictures when a creator hasn’t manually added it.
Creators will nonetheless have the choice so as to add their very own alt textual content descriptions to photographs as they’re uploaded or after publishing, offering a way to appropriate any data within the AI-generated variations. Even if the AI alt textual content is imperfect, nonetheless, customers who depend on display screen readers to course of visible content material might discover that having it broadly utilized is preferable to photographs not having any alt textual content in any respect.
TikTok can be launching a brand new shade distinction toggle that can be utilized to extend the foreground shade of textual content, icons, and UI parts. This ought to make descriptions and controls extra distinct, serving to folks with low imaginative and prescient or distinction sensitivities to navigate the platform. Additionally, TikTok will now mechanically show all textual content in daring throughout the app when it detects that customers have enabled daring textual content help on their gadgets.
All of those options can be found now and may be discovered on TikTok’s redesigned accessibility settings web page, which is situated on iOS and Android person profiles beneath the three-line menu, or the left-hand taskbar on desktop.
