"Enabling Product Accessibility at Microsoft" by Hector Minto
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Transcript of "Enabling Product Accessibility at Microsoft" by Hector Minto
© Copyright Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Accessibility is our priority
“We will focus on designing and building products that our customers love and that are accessible to everyone and built for each of us.”
Satya Nadella
Microsoft Shareholders Meeting, November 2016
Disability
=
Exclusion
Policies and regulationImplement procurement and Information & Communication
Technologies (ICT) policies based on global standards
such as EN 301 549.
• EN 301 549 is a set of standards for ICT products and services, including websites, software, and digital devices
• Provides a set of functional accessibility requirements related to usage: without or with limited vision, without or with limited hearing, without vocal capability, with limited manipulation, strength or reach, without perception of color, with limited cognition, etc.
• Ensures requirements are testable, providing tests that demonstrate requirements have been met
• Provides flexibility in acknowledging that there are several ways to achieve accessible ICT
• EN 301 549 is the only ICT procurement standard specifically developed for accessibility and is intended for use by European public authorities and other public sector bodies
• Organizations can use the EN to compare the accessibility performance of ICT products and services and award contracts based on performance
• EN 301 549 has also been adopted as an Australian national standard
Inclusive
Hiring
Inclusive
Design
New Toolkit
(cloud)
Accessible
Mainstream
Products
Accessible
Procurement
Disability
Support
A new toolkit for a new generation
Machine Learning and Cognitive tools
Translation tools including speech
Artificial intelligence
Geolocation
Digital Assistant (e.g cortana)
Face recognition – Windows Hello
Hololens
A herd of giraffe walking across a dry grass field
Create inclusive content
Run the Accessibility
Checker to find and fix
issues
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Use built-in styles and
templates, with fonts and
colors that are easy to see
Make content easy to navigate:
include section headings, slide
titles, sheet names
Link
Give hyperlinks descriptive
and meaningful display
names
Describe visual objects
such as photos with
alternative text
Avoid using color as the
sole means of representing
important information
Learn more at aka.ms/OfficeAccessibility
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