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Memories and adding personal descriptions to photos. (self.Blind)
submitted by sdrhoads
For those who enjoy taking photos with iphone or android, do you add descriptions to photos and how do you tell photos apart later in your gallery app?
I'm sighted but curious about this as I think it's relevant for sighted and non-sighted people but I haven't seen apps address it in a useful way.
I'm aware there are many services that can describe scenes or create alt text automatically. I'm more interested in personal descriptions for photos taken on your phone for memories or profile photos.
An example might be "Sarah and I in the snow for the first time."
Google Photos let's you add descriptions but TalkBack doesn't read the description while browsing photos.
Apple Photos adds labels like 'girl' 'cat' 'grass' which is nice and voiceover actually reads them but to my knowledge they aren't customizable.
Does anyone save descriptions of photos to remember what they are?
Any special apps, or methods that help?
Any thoughts on photos, sharing, and memories in general? :)
I'm sighted but curious about this as I think it's relevant for sighted and non-sighted people but I haven't seen apps address it in a useful way.
I'm aware there are many services that can describe scenes or create alt text automatically. I'm more interested in personal descriptions for photos taken on your phone for memories or profile photos.
An example might be "Sarah and I in the snow for the first time."
Google Photos let's you add descriptions but TalkBack doesn't read the description while browsing photos.
Apple Photos adds labels like 'girl' 'cat' 'grass' which is nice and voiceover actually reads them but to my knowledge they aren't customizable.
Does anyone save descriptions of photos to remember what they are?
Any special apps, or methods that help?
Any thoughts on photos, sharing, and memories in general? :)
rp-turtle 2 points 2y ago
I wish there were a solution to this but as of now, I don’t think there is one. I know that in the latest version of iOS, you can add captions to photos so you can put a description in there but otherwise, I don’t think you can add information to photos outside of posting them to social media. I think it would be nice one day if apple allowed iPhone users to insert alt text for a photo natively in the photos app to allow for cataloging but who knows if they’ll ever do it.
For now, I just use captions sometimes, voiceover’s best guess, and seeing AI’s best guess to keep track of my photos.
For now, I just use captions sometimes, voiceover’s best guess, and seeing AI’s best guess to keep track of my photos.
BlueRock956 2 points 2y ago
This is why Instagram is so cool. Its accessible and it lets you add alt text descriptions to images.
siriuslylupin6 1 points 2y ago
No I don’t I usualy run it through tap tap see. I don’t care about photos much honestly I post them up online and that’s it photos are for others not for me.
sdrhoads [OP] 1 points 2y ago
I see, so once a photo has been posted it's served its purpose by sharing it with others and you don't think too much about it after that?
siriuslylupin6 1 points 2y ago
That’s the essence yes. I’ve never been a big picture person.
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