Social media platforms may be a great way of telling the world about your life, but not everyone can appreciate these moments in full.
Facebook is launching "automatic alternative text"; a tool that uses object recognition technology to identify and describe an image, so that visually impaired and blind people using screen readers will be able to hear - and therefore visualize - what's in a photo posted on the social network.
"With more than 39 million people who are blind, and over 246 million who have a severe visual impairment, many people may feel excluded from the conversation around photos on Facebook," Facebook's Shaomei Wu, Hermes Pique, and Jeffrey Wieland said in a post.
"We want to build technology that helps the blind community experience Facebook the same way others enjoy it."
Screen readers are software programs used by people with poor vision, which can scan text shown on screens and then convert the information into speech or braille.
Before the announcement, screen readers would only be able to tell users who posted the Facebook post and that an image was uploaded.