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Microsoft recruits accessibility app to make its AI more useful to blind and low-vision users

Mobile accessibility app Be My Eyes will provide anonymized video data to enhance scene understanding in Microsoft’s accessibility-focused AI models.

Be My Eyes, the accessibility app for mobile devices that puts blind and low-vision people on a live video call with a sighted guide, will help Microsoft train its AI. Be My Eyes will provide anonymized video data to improve scene understanding in Microsoft’s accessibility-focused AI models. The data sets Be My Eyes gives Microsoft will include “unique objects, lighting and framing that realistically represents the lived experience of the blind and low vision community.” The goal is to make Microsoft’s AI more inclusive for people with vision disabilities.

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