Ayn: Assistive Tool to Describe Images for Blind and Visually Impaired

Describing images on social networking sites is one of the main challenges for the blind and visually impaired people due the lack of necessary aids. Therefore, creating technical tools that aid them to describe images is a demand especially for Arabic speakers. This paper aims to build an application called Ayn for Android systems, which seeks to describe images published on the Twitter application by using artificial intelligence algorithm in the Arabic language through voice and writing. The Ayn application provides the blind and visually impaired people with image description in two ways, either by artificial intelligence or by volunteers registered in the system. Users can filter the descriptions of the images by two options, either by the highest-rated descriptions, or by the descriptions with the tallest comment.