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Water Music: Navigating toward increased independence through Soundscape
By: Amos Miller, Microsoft AI & Research Imagine you’re paddling on the lake, you feel the warm sun on your face, listen quietly to the calm ripples of the water. You can hear a sound beacon, in...
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Announcing the first AI for Accessibility grantee: Zyrobotics
By Wendy Chisholm, Principal Accessibility Architect In May, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced AI for Accessibility to put AI tools in the hands of developers, universities, NGOs and inventors to...
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John’s Crazy Socks Empowers People with Disabilities
By Microsoft Accessibility In 2006, John Cronin, a young man with Down syndrome, turned his affinity for lively socks and spreading joy into a retail venture: John’s Crazy Socks. Today this successful...
View ArticleNew Skype 8.0 Accessibility Improvements
By Microsoft Accessibility Building on the work we announced earlier this year, we have listened to your feedback and continued to work to make the latest iteration (version 8.0) even more accessible....
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Ready, Set, Hire!
by Jessica Rafuse, Microsoft Accessibility Senior Program Manager NDEAM is a wrap, what’s next? As National Disability Employment Awareness Month comes to an end, I reflect on the last month and ask,...
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Answer ALS creates largest ALS research study in history with Microsoft’s...
By Microsoft Accessibility In September 2018, Joel Shamanski and his wife, Ann, participated in an Answer ALS walk in Rochester, N.Y. Joel Shamaskin is one of nearly 1,000 people living with ALS...
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Empowerment marks the United Nations International Day of Persons with...
By Jenny Lay-Flurrie Stuart Pixley, a Senior Attorney at Microsoft Today marks the United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities (UN IDPD). This year’s theme, “Empowering persons...
View ArticleWorking together to improve image captioning for people who are blind
Microsoft continues to push the boundaries of technology to improve and positively influence all parts of society. In order to explore new approaches at the intersection of computer vision and...
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Code Jumper: empowering students with inclusive coding tools
By Microsoft Accessibility From left, students Daniel and Rico and IT instructor Jonathan Fogg laugh about the program Daniel and Rico created during a beta test of the technology behind Code Jumper....
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Microsoft Accessibility Sessions Slated for CSUN 2019
Microsoft Accessibility Team at CSUN Assistive Technology Conference. Microsoft at CSUN 2019 The 34th annual CSUN Assistive Technology Conference is March 11-15 at the Anaheim Marriott, Anaheim,...
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What’s new with Seeing AI
By Saqib Shaikh, Software Engineering Manager and Project Lead for Seeing AI Seeing AI provides people who are blind or with low vision an easier way to understand the world around them through the...
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Better Together
By Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Chief Accessibility Officer Kings College Student, Theo, demonstrates a program he created with the technology behind Code Jumper as his mother looks on. Photo by Jonathan Banks....
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Sharing our learnings on World Autism Awareness Day
By Neil Barnett, Director of Inclusive Hiring and Accessibility at Microsoft Autism @ Work Playbook, a guide for HR professionals and organizations to create employment opportunities for individuals on...
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Four New Eyes First Games Now Available, Play with Your Eyes!
By Bernice You We are excited to announce the release of four new Eyes First games on Microsoft Store for Windows, including Tile Slide, Match Two, Double Up, and Maze. With this release, people can...
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