We are excited to share the list of new hero accessibility features for Windows, Office (M365) and C+AI that have been/will be released this Summer. All features shared in this mail have been added to the Microsoft Accessibility Features that can be shared with your external customers and partners who will benefit from these features.
Windows Hero Accessibility Features Everyone is Talking About
Bigger and brighter mouse pointers in Windows 10
We’ve introduced new mouse pointer sizes and colors to make Windows easier to see. You can now make your mouse pointer up to 8 times larger than default. You can also change to new bright mouse pointer colors or pick your own. Go to Ease of Access Settings (Windows + U), under the “Vision” category, select “Cursor & pointer” to see the list of options. For more information, please visit Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18298
Version: May 2019 Release for Windows 10
Narrator now has support for Google Chrome
Using up and down arrows in scan mode, navigating with tab key, continuous reading commands, and navigating by headings and links have support for Chrome, with more functionality coming in the future. For more information, please visit Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18267
Version: May 2019 Release for Windows 10
Narrator has a new home experience
Every time you turn on Narrator, you’ll be taken to Narrator Home, which gives you one place where you can access everything you need, including options for the QuickStart, Narrator guide, What’s new, Settings, and providing Feedback. In settings, you can remove Narrator Home from the Alt + Tab list and minimize it to the system tray instead. You can access your settings through Narrator Home or by pressing Windows log key + Ctrl + N. For more information, please visit Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18298
Version: May 2019 Release for Windows 10
C+AI Hero Accessibility Features Everyone is Talking About
PowerBI - Chartsand Graphs improve navigation for screen reader and keyboard users
Table View for Charts and Graphs in PowerBI enables users with vision disabilities using a screen reader to easily navigate through data. This also helps keyboard users navigate faster through the data as shortcuts provided by PowerBI make it really easy to go through the data and within each graph or chart.
PowerBI - Table view
The split view showing the chart or graph as well as the table gives it a comparable view that is easy to understand, this might also be a nice view for people with cognitive disabilities.
Power BI visual navigation
There are two ways to navigate within visuals to access the data shown within. The first is a provide way to access an HTML table with the data shown in the visual, and the second is keyboard shortcut support for navigating point by point within the visual. You can review details at http://aka.ms/pbiaccessibility. The first way has existed since September 2017 and the second way was just recently added in March.
Office (M360)- Hero Accessibility Features Everyone is Talking About
Ideas in Excel
Ideas in Excel empowers you to understand your data through high-level visual and textual summaries, trends and patterns. Simply choose a cell in a data range, and select the Ideas button on the Home tab. Ideas in Excel will analyze your data and return a collection of interesting and relevant recommendations. You can use Ideas in Excel to find something you overlooked about a data set you know well, or to explore a new data set someone just shared. Give it a try today! For more information, go to Ideas in Excel.
Version: Win32: 16.0.11328.20158 & Mac: 16.22.19021100
Insert data from picture in Excel Android to transform picture into table
Have you ever wanted to scan a receipt or table-type information, like a recipe, into Excel? With the new insert data from picture feature you can, and it's as simple as taking a picture. With this new Excel Android feature (available to some insiders), you can now insert data directly onto Excel sheets from pictures containing tabular data. For more information, Insert data from picture in Excel Android to transform picture into table.
Version: Android from 16.0.11231.20088 (December Fork)
