Microsoft Word and PowerPoint will use AI to automatically write photo descriptions

Microsoft today said that starting in early 2017, its Word and PowerPoint applications will be able to automatically come up with descriptions of photos that users can add into documents. Office 365 subscribers will see this first in Word and PowerPoint for PCs. Ordinarily, if you drop a photo into PowerPoint, you can type out an "Alt Text" title and description for the photo. But not everyone does that when they're making slide decks. Then, when a blind person opens the slide deck, they aren't able to understand what's going on in the picture, which could make the slide or the entire deck more difficult to fully grasp.