With Microsoft Groups, our aim is to ship a platform the place people and organizations can succeed with out boundaries. By prioritizing accessibility, we not solely tackle the wants of people with disabilities but in addition improve usability for all customers. Suggestions from folks with lived experiences is significant to this course of, serving to us create options that promote equitable entry and supply significant experiences for everybody.
Wanting into the approaching months, Groups will develop new options designed to allow efficient collaboration for all. These embody:
- Enhancements to the Groups conferences expertise:
- The flexibility to customise the assembly stage to higher suit your each day use.
- Enhancing captions for those who choose to learn the assembly content material in actual time.
- Creating an expertise the place those that are non-verbal may be a part of the assembly via Actual-Time Textual content (RTT) permitting your typing to be despatched as a part of the principle assembly content material for all to learn as you sort.
- Permitting those that use signal language to be higher acknowledged because the energetic speaker and enhancing the general signal language expertise.
- Making Groups extra visually responsive to assist all customers be capable of snap Groups to a slim view or zoom in to assist these with low imaginative and prescient at larger zoom ranges.
- For many who choose or want the keyboard we’re enhancing the general keyboard move to scale back tab stops and including extra keyboard shortcuts.
- For many who want or choose among the accessibility settings it is possible for you to to search out them in a single handy place in Groups Settings.
So far as performance right this moment, Groups presents a number of options designed to empower customers throughout the incapacity spectrum, and provides all customers selection in how they use Microsoft Groups. These embody:
- To see and navigate what’s on the display screen:
- Display screen Reader assist permits customers to navigate and handle Groups-related workflows successfully throughout workflows.
- Excessive Distinction Mode enhances visibility via high-contrast settings as Groups robotically adapts to system settings in Home windows 10 or Home windows 11.
- Keyboard Shortcuts for environment friendly entry and Groups characteristic administration.
- To listen to and comply with conversations:
- Dwell Captions and Transcriptions can be found real-time in each model of Groups via robotically generated captions and transcriptions.
- Signal Language View for persistent visibility of signal language interpreters or different signers throughout conferences.
- Teletypewritter (TTY) Mode to assist TTY gadgets, and text-based communication.
Moreover, Microsoft 365 Copilot will go the additional step and summarize discussions, generate assembly notes, saving hours of time.
Our dedication to inclusion is not only a aim—it’s a shared journey that grows alongside the wants of our customers and the ever-evolving world of know-how. Lots of our improvements throughout the completely different platforms that we assist have been formed by invaluable insights from customers with lived experiences. This suggestions helps us design options that problem limits and redefine what’s attainable in collaborative communication.
Microsoft is dedicated to delivering the absolute best expertise for all clients. You probably have a incapacity or want help with accessibility options in any Microsoft product, please contact the Microsoft Incapacity Reply Desk.
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