Google Unveils AI-Powered Accessibility Upgrades for Android and Chrome
Summary
Google introduces AI-powered features for Android and Chrome, including image and screen descriptions from Gemini, expressive captions with sound labels, OCR for PDFs in Chrome, and customizable page zoom for better accessibility.
Key Points
- Google is rolling out new AI and accessibility features to Android and Chrome, including improved image descriptions and screen reading capabilities using its Gemini AI.
- Android's Expressive Captions feature now captures the duration of sounds, such as when someone drags out a word, and labels additional sounds like whistling or throat clearing.
- Chrome on desktop now supports Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for scanned PDFs, allowing screen readers to interact with the text, and Page Zoom on Chrome for Android lets users increase text size without affecting page layout.