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 ...

Big Tech's efforts to improve accessibility are a work in progress. Microsoft, which has been around a lot longer than its counterparts, has been leveraging that experience in its bid to improve ...

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 ...

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 ...

Asia Pacific, 13 May 2022 – Teams from Thailand, Singapore and Philippines are winners of the Microsoft AI for Accessibility (AI4A) Hackathon in APAC. In its third year, the AI4A Hackathon features ...

Color should never be the only means of distinguishing between two elements because not everybody can tell colors apart. Color should be used along with another identifier, such as a text label or ...

As gaming has grown from niche to mainstream over the past decades, it has also become both much more, and much less, accessible to people with disabilities or other considerations. Microsoft aims to ...

Microsoft has unveiled a series of new accessibility tools for game developers at its Ability Summit. Among others, Xbox announced a new Gaming Accessibility Resource Hub for developers, which gathers ...

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 ...

In the past decade or so, there’s been a push to put everything online. From customer service to interactions with local and national governments, we’ve moved away from the call center to the web and ...