Hello!
This is the start of a blog that documents my experience and progress as a GSoC 2020 student with NV ACCESS while working on my project titled Image captioning and Object recognition modules for NVDA! The purpose of these blog posts is to not only keep track of the work being done each week but also to serve as a guide to any future GSoC students! (By the way, feel free to reach out to me about it!)
The community bonding period was a blast! My mentors, Michael Curran and Reef Turner, along with the rest of the NVDA community were incredibly warm and helpful to me! The community welcomed me and we discussed my project at great length. Some of the community members gave me helpful pointers (How did I not think of adding an OCR along with the object recognition module 🤦♂️) and referred me to some previous work that hoped to accomplish the same goals! I spent most of