Microsoft will add an Accessibility Assistant to Microsoft 365, a boon for those who have trouble seeing, but also a feature you may see crop up while you’re writing in Word or designing PowerPoint ...

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Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. New 3D-printed adaptive accessories for the Surface Pen and automatic alt text for LinkedIn posts were also ...

This year's Microsoft Ability Summit is underway and the company has revealed its latest advancements for accessibility and disability inclusion. First, it's bringing an accessibility assistant to ...

Creating accessible Microsoft Word documents is relatively easy when you know what is required. Word also has a real time accessibility checker that alerts you to errors and provides accessibility ...

Creating accessible Microsoft PowerPoint presentations is relatively easy once you know what is required. PowerPoint also has a real time accessibility checker that will alert you to errors and ...

When I sat down last year with Jenny Lay-Flurrie, chief accessibility officer at Microsoft, to talk about the company’s Ability Summit, she explained the event has come a long way over the years. What ...

Microsoft’s Ability Summit conference has a rather humble origin story to tell. The Redmond-based tech titan is holding the thirteenth-annual affair this week, which is a big milestone. The event ...

Despite being one of Windows 11’s most well-known accessibility features, Voice access has always been oddly missing from the Accessibility section in Quick Actions. Microsoft has finally added a ...

Microsoft has announced some new accessibility features for Xbox and PC players. They include a new accessibility settings menu for Xbox Widgets in the Xbox PC Game Bar, among other changes. Microsoft ...

Why it matters: For gamers with accessibility needs, Microsoft just leveled up the controller game in a major way. The tech giant unveiled the Proteus Controller on Global Accessibility Awareness Day ...