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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 ...

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 ...

Today, we hosted the 15th annual Microsoft Ability Summit, with over 20,000 attendees from 164 countries coming together virtually to discuss the future of AI and accessibility. Microsoft has a ...

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 ...

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’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 ...

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 ...

Windows 11 received several feature updates during this year, which helped the operating system become more popular among "regular" consumers and gamers. But it is not all about taskbar ungrouping, ...

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 ...

Microsoft has released another first-party accessibility-focused controller. The new Xbox Adaptive Joystick, aiming to be a companion peripheral, is now available for purchase. Seven years after the ...