Accessibility

We’re working with leaders in the fashion industry to bring product inclusion and equity to New York Fashion Week.

Fatmir Seremeti made history as the first visually impaired runner to complete the Stockholm Half Marathon using Google's Project Guideline, showcasing the power of AI i…

We’re excited to announce the Google Rising Influencers with Disabilities Program, a first of its kind program to support people with disabilities.

For Global Accessibility Awareness Day, here’s new updates to our accessibility products.

Read about our partnerships in Kenya that bring Chromebooks to low vision and blind children, and learn more about new Chromebook updates for Global Accessibility Awaren…

Celebrate the Global Accessibility Awareness Day GAAD by taking actionable and easy steps to build accessibility into your development life-cycle! Learn how tools like Accessibility Insights & Visual Studio can help find accessibility issues in development. The post Developing with Accessibility in Mind at Microsoft appeared first on Engineering@Microsoft.

For the Guided Frame and Real Tone teams, testing Pixel’s camera features was rooted in making sure it works for everyone.

Google’s Super Bowl ad shows how Pixel’s Guided Frame helps blind or low vision people take great pictures or selfies.

To celebrate the International Day for Persons with Disabilities on December 3rd we have some exciting new announcements for Accessibility Insights, Microsoft’s open-source suite of tools to help developers deliver accessible software! Technology plays a huge role in empowering everyone, including people with disabilities around the globe. The post Accessibility Insights now supports WCAG 2.2 AA appeared first on Engineering@Microsoft.

Three Google employees share how their experiences shape their work championing for accessibility.

For National Disability Employment Awareness Month, here’s a look at Googlers and the accessibility apps and features they work on for Google Play.

On the eve of the 33rd anniversary of the ADA, we’re sponsoring the captions and audio description of a musical tribute to Judy Heumann.

In celebration of Disability Pride Month, we learn from four Googlers about what their identity means to them.

We’re announcing new features like image to text on Chrome browser and updated safety controls for admins in Google Admin Console.

A $100k grant to the University of Florida enabled a professional development program for computer science and special education teachers.

Global Accessibility Awareness Day puts a focus on how we can make classrooms more accessible, no matter how students learn.

On Global Accessibility Awareness Day, here are product and feature updates built by and for people with disabilities

The Accessibility Insights team recently fixed a bug in our Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) app where checkboxes in a WPF tree view were not properly reporting their checked or unchecked state to adaptive technologies such as screen readers. This longstanding issue created a sub-par accessible experience in Accessibility Insights for Windows, The post Implementing an accessible, checkable WPF Tree View appeared first on Engineering@Microsoft.

Since February 2022, the Accessibility Insights team has been migrating Accessibility Insights for Web–our Chrome and Edge extension introduced in Jacqueline’s February 14, 2022, post–from Manifest V2 (MV2) to Manifest V3 (MV3). We wanted to share learnings and takeaways from our migration journey with a walkthrough of the largest changes and considerations. The post Learnings from migrating Accessibility Insights for Web to Chrome’s Manifest V3 appeared first on Engineering@Microsoft.

In this post, Jacqueline Gibson goes over Accessibility Insights for Web, Microsoft's open-sourced Chrome and Edge extension that helps users find and fix web accessibility issues. The post Accessibility Insights for Web appeared first on Engineering@Microsoft.