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

Be My Eyes, an app connecting blind and low-vision users with sighted guides, is partnering with Microsoft to enhance AI accessibility. The app will provide anonymized video data to improve Microsoft's AI models' scene understanding for vision-impaired users. This collaboration aims to make Microsoft's AI more inclusive by incorporating data representing the experiences of the blind and low-vision community. Be My Eyes has previously worked with Microsoft's Disability Answer Desk and partnered with Hilton to improve hotel accessibility for visually impaired guests.