Researchers Are Making Memes Accessible to the Blind

If you’re visually impaired, most internet memes are inaccessible. That needs to change.

Chris Stokel-Walker
OneZero
Published in
4 min readOct 4, 2019

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For the 1 million Americans who are legally blind, an increasingly large part of the internet is cut off to them.

Scroll through Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok and you’ll find them littered with…

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Chris Stokel-Walker
OneZero

UK-based freelancer for The Guardian, The Economist, BuzzFeed News, the BBC and more. Tell me your story, or get me to write for you: stokel@gmail.com