{"id":1902,"date":"2016-04-28T15:04:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T20:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blindabilities.com\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2016-05-05T06:31:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T11:31:39","slug":"facebooks-automated-alt-text-explained-by-mark-zuckerberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/?p=1902","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&#8217;s Automated Alt Text Explained by Mark Zuckerberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7204\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1902-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/facebook_AI_Automated_Alt_Text.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/facebook_AI_Automated_Alt_Text.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/facebook_AI_Automated_Alt_Text.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p>Jeff Thompson from the Blind Abilities team talks to us about the Facebook new feature, Automated Alt Text, and what it means as a start to something big coming down the road. Included is the audio from the Facebook Live Video Mark Zuckerberg posted on Facebook talking to Matt, who happens to be Blind, and is an engineer in the Artificial Intelligence department at Facebook.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>[gravityform id=&#8221;2&#8243; title=&#8221;true&#8221; description=&#8221;true&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7206\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1902-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/facebook_AI_Automated_Alt_Text.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/facebook_AI_Automated_Alt_Text.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/facebook_AI_Automated_Alt_Text.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p>http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/facebook_AI_Automated_Alt_Text.mp3Jeff Thompson from the Blind Abilities team talks to us about the Facebook new feature, Automated Alt Text, and what it means as a start to something big coming down the road. Included is the audio from the Facebook Live Video Mark Zuckerberg posted on Facebook talking to Matt, who happens to be Blind, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[168],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bapresents","tag-facebook"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Blind-Abilities-Logo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6rcRg-uG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6204,"url":"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/?p=6204","url_meta":{"origin":1902,"position":0},"title":"New! 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