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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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Microsoft has unveiled a brand new adaptive accessories range, and it could help further gaming PC accessibility. The new ecosystem of peripherals aims to be highly adaptable and easy to use, enabling ...