Microsoft 365’s newest assistant will point out when you make stuff less accessible
” for Microsoft 365 office software is like a spelling or grammar checking tool that will instruct users on how to prevent and correct accessibility issues in real time when creating content.
A new person-shaped icon will be used to flag the location of accessibility issues across your work, such as low contrast between text and background — the most frequent accessibility issue that occurs in Word documents, according to Microsoft.
Microsoft also announced that customizable 3D-printed attachments and grips will be available for the Surface Pen later this year. Thesemake it easier for users with mobility issues to hold and control a pen stylus and are already available for the Microsoft Business Pen and Microsoft Classroom Pen 2.
Support for 13 new African languages, including Yoruba, Hausa, and Igbo, has been added to Microsoft’s Translate tool, which enables users to communicate around both language and accessibility barriers with text-to-speech and verbal translations. And finally, LinkedIn is adding automatically generated alt text descriptions and captioning utilizing
, Microsoft’s collection of cloud-based AI features for developers. Microsoft notes that 40 percent of LinkedIn posts contain at least one image, and while auto-generated captions and image descriptions tend to have some issues, it’s certainly better than nothing.it’s destined to supersede. But seeing how comparable it is to correctional tools like Grammarly is neat, and with more updates, who knows what kind of issues it’s going to lay bare for me.
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