Microsoft celebrates Global Accessibility Awareness Day with ChatGPT

What you need to know

• Microsoft celebrated the 12th annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day with a blog post highlighting recent accessibility-related partnerships.
• BeMyEyes, a mobile app that helps connect users with vision impairments to sighted assistants for visual interpretations, is expanding with OpenAI and Microsoft.
• Virtual Volunteer can generate AI-powered descriptions of objects and text in the world without needing a human assistant.

Microsoft celebrated Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) for its 12th year, championing innovative efforts, including generative AI tools…