With Microsoft Groups, our objective is to ship a platform the place people and organizations can succeed with out obstacles. By prioritizing accessibility, we not solely deal with the wants of people with disabilities but additionally improve usability for all customers. Suggestions from folks with lived experiences is important 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 power to customise the assembly stage to raised suit your each day use.
- Enhancing captions for those who favor to learn the assembly content material in actual time.
- Creating an expertise the place those that are non-verbal will be a part of the assembly by way of 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 have the ability to snap Groups to a slim view or zoom in to assist these with low imaginative and prescient at larger zoom ranges.
- For individuals who favor or want the keyboard we’re enhancing the general keyboard move to scale back tab stops and including extra keyboard shortcuts.
- For individuals who want or favor a few of 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 now, Groups gives a number of options designed to empower customers throughout the incapacity spectrum, and provides all customers alternative in how they use Microsoft Groups. These embody:
- To see and navigate what’s on the display:
- Display screen Reader help permits customers to navigate and handle Groups-related workflows successfully throughout workflows.
- Excessive Distinction Mode enhances visibility by way of high-contrast settings as Groups mechanically 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:
- Stay Captions and Transcriptions can be found real-time in each model of Groups by way of mechanically generated captions and transcriptions.
- Signal Language View for persistent visibility of signal language interpreters or different signers throughout conferences.
- Teletypewritter (TTY) Mode to help 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 objective—it’s a shared journey that grows alongside the wants of our customers and the ever-evolving world of expertise. A lot of our improvements throughout the completely different platforms that we help had 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 very best expertise for all clients. In case you have a incapacity or want help with accessibility options in any Microsoft product, please contact the Microsoft Incapacity Reply Desk.
This devoted help crew is educated to work with many in style assistive applied sciences and gives help in English, Spanish, French, and direct video in American Signal Language (ASL).