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Dec032016

Microsoft to boost accessibility features in Windows 10 in upcoming update

Microsoft is hoping to give people with disabilities better access to its operating system with the upcoming Creators Update features. Some of the new things coming next year include support for braille and new voices for text-to-speech feature. Aside from that, Narrator will reduce volume of other apps only when it’s speaking, Cortana won’t transcribe what Narrator is speaking, and it also has better support for Edge browser—making it easier to fill out forms and navigate by heading level.

Even Office 365 will make it “easy to insert alternative text descriptions for images and meaningful display names for hyperlinks, as well as making the accessibility checker available in more Office applications." There are much more outlined in this post by Microsoft if you want to check out what else they have planned.

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