First, to Microsoft 365 (formerly known as Microsoft Office) brings an accessibility assistant. The goal is to help people produce more accessible content.
The Assistant will offer suggestions on how to prevent and fix accessibility issues, which Microsoft calls “better defaults” and “real-time optimization.” Assistant, in Visual Studio following an accessibility checker. On a similar note, Microsoft has released a guidebook to help people design products with cognitive diversity in mind.
Later this year, Surface Pen There will also be 3D-printed inserts for the Business Pen and Class Pen 2, which are already available.
Microsoft 365 will soon have an accessibility assistant
Elsewhere, Microsoft has detailed more accessibility-focused updates built on the Azure platform. Seeing AI application recently added a feature to help visually impaired users and low vision users navigate a building guided by spatial audio cues.
Azure Cognitive Services on LinkedIn It can also be used to automatically add alternative text descriptions and captions. Microsoft’s LinkedIn posts more than 40% states that most of them have at least one image. While auto-generated descriptions aren’t perfect, they’re better than no alt text at all.
Above all, Microsoft Translator today gained support for 13 additional African languages, including Yoruba, Hausa, and Igbo. Additionally, Microsoft says it will explore some of the ways Bing AI can improve accessibility during the summit.