Category Archives: accessible technology

A Beginner’s Guide to Accessibility Tools on Windows The Windows Accessibility tools help people with a variety of disabilities every day. Here’s a quick overview of all the tools. Microsoft has been at the forefront of accessibility and first took steps to address it in 1990 with Windows 3.0. Now with Windows 11, they’ve rampedContinue reading

https://groups.io/g/office-accessibility/topic/99025717 Getting back to Outlook Classic User Interface if you’re in the Inaccessible New Outlook User Interface (AKA Outlook Preview or Outlook PRE) To change back to the Outlook Classic user interface from the New Outlook user interface: Note:  The New Outlook interface is NOT accessible and most of the keyboard shortcuts you are accustomedContinue reading

How for blind people, the iPhone significantly changed the world of cell phones even more than for the sighted

Source page In 1990 I had a conversation with my friend Aaron Levinthal about phones and we thought it would be cool if we could just take our phone put it on our belts and go out into public. Neither of us had seen a cell phone at that point yet. On a college trip the assistantContinue reading “How for blind people, the iPhone significantly changed the world of cell phones even more than for the sighted”