by Genevieve McLachlan | Aug 17, 2018 | Access Citizen, Accessibility, Assistive technology, Microsoft, People with Disabilities, Technology, Windows
The latest version of Microsoft’s Office 365 – tools such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook – has a whole bunch of new accessibility features designed to make all our lives as easy as possible! We’ve put together a list of the top five...
by Genevieve McLachlan | May 23, 2018 | Access Citizen, Accessibility, Adaptive equipment, Articles, Assistive technology, Be. Lab, Employment, Microsoft, Newsletter, People with Disabilities, Technology, Windows
Our May newsletter has a focus on Accessibility. I share a short film put together by Microsoft for Global Accessibility Awareness Day as well as some things they’ve done to improve their inbuilt accessibility features in Windows 10. Articles include: Global...
by Genevieve McLachlan | May 17, 2018 | Access Citizen, Accessibility, Be. Lab, Employment, Human Rights, Leadership, Microsoft, People with Disabilities, Social Change, Technology
To celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day today, we made a film with Microsoft and their other global partners, a short film and it’s premiering right now! Empower every person and reimagine #accessibility this #GAAD. Check it out here or schedule your #GAAD...
by Genevieve McLachlan | May 16, 2018 | Accessibility, Assistive technology, Microsoft
Microsoft is doing a lot of work around Accessibility and has their own Disability Answer Desk. The Disability Answer Desk is where customers with disabilities get support with Microsoft Office and Windows. This includes product Issues, accessibility questions, and...
by Genevieve McLachlan | May 14, 2018 | Accessibility, Andriod, Apple, Articles, Microsoft, Technology, Visual Impairment
I recently came across this article about the Be My Eyes App which is a free app that connects blind and low vision people with sighted volunteers and company representatives for visual assistance through a live video call. It is a free service and is currently...
by Genevieve McLachlan | May 11, 2018 | Access Citizen, Accessibility, Adaptive equipment, Assistive technology, Be. Lab, Microsoft, People with Disabilities, Technology, Windows
Today Microsoft Global released the trailer for the “Empower every person: reimagining accessibility” a short film which I was privileged to be involved in as part of the work I do with Be. Accessible. Watch “Empower every person: reimagining accessibility”, a short...
