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Website accessibility solutions encompass a wide range of formats and technologies, ensuring inclusivity through digital accessibility services. While accessibility generally sparks discussion in marketing and advertising strategies, for authors and publishers the discussion is more focused on inclusiveness and availability of content for those with and without a disability. Fortunately, advances in machine learning have led to great strides in inclusivity for the differently abled.
Sign Language, Translation and Captioning
For those who are hard of hearing, web content accessibility should be focused on sign language, translation and captioning of video and digital content. This is why the developments in AI are so profound. There is now technology that can interpret voice and convert it into sign language, which can then be displayed within or alongside video content. Audio files can now be automatically translated, captioned, and adapted using accessibility compliance services to enhance user experience.
Image Recognition and Text to Speech
As digital accessibility services have evolved, computer engineers have achieved remarkable progress in ensuring inclusion for people with visual impairments. There are now machine learning programs that can recognize and describe images in an audial form. In addition, one of the foundational accessibility elements, text-to-speech, has improved over the last decade of its use.
Automatic Summarization and Abstracts
Now, engineers of AI are working toward advancements for those with learning disabilities who struggle to distill information quickly. AI services are being developed that will help to automatically summarize articles and reports into abstracts of easily digestible information.
While many of these tools are currently in use, some are still being tweaked and created. All businesses and authors should explore intelligent document processing solutions that leverage machine learning for future-ready content accessibility
Some advancements in website accessibility will have to wait to be adapted into your content, but many accessibility tools already available — sign language, translation, image recognition, captioning, text-to-speech — offer a significant advantage to authors and businesses ready to use them. Contact an Amnet expert today to learn how our digital accessibility solutions and pdf remediation services can make your content inclusive
Sources:
https://www.abilitynet.org.uk/news-blogs/5-ways-ai-could-transform-digital-accessibility
https://amnet-systems.com/amnet-techenabled-services/accessibility/