A large portion of content on the internet is visual, and unless website creators use alt text to label their images, it's hard for users of screen readers or Braille displays to know what they show.

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For example, having a bullet point on a slide that says "Click here" is useless for people using screen readers. Even those not using a reader won't know where the link will take them.

With the help of Gemini, Android's TalkBack screen reader can now answer questions about images displayed on your phone, even they don’t have any alt text describing them.

Screen readers can access the information and translate it into a format that users can interact with, but for those without the assistive technology, alt text would not be apparent.

In a blog post published Tuesday, Google announced what it described as an “all-new” version (officially, 9.1) of its TalkBack screen reader.

With TalkBack 9.1 and up, swiping up and right launches the new voice commands, which will lead the screen reader to stop talking and listen for your instructions.