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AI tools for accessibility: apps that describe scenes, add live captions and read aloud

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Major platform vendors and specialist apps now offer features that read text, describe images, detect doors and add live captions in Spanish with important caveats: some advanced image‑questioning and expressive subtitling remain English‑only, device requirements vary and manufacturers warn these tools are not reliable in high‑risk situations.

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Be My Eyes combines volunteer video calls with an AI assistant and reports more than 11.5 million volunteers and over 1.1 million blind or low‑vision users; Google Lookout, Microsoft Seeing AI and Apple’s Lupa offer similar features in Spanish with limits such as platform requirements, function‑by‑function language availability and privacy or reliability warnings from vendors.

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