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Create inclusive content with the new Accessibility Assistant in Microsoft 365
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Aleš Holeček,
Corporate Vice President, Office Product Group
March 8, 2023
Inaccessible content is everywhere in the digital world. Nearly 97 percent of home pages on the public web contain issues like missing image descriptions, videos without captions, and hard-to-read text colors that reduce their legibility and usefulness for people with disabilities.1 The same issues pervade the emails, slide decks, documents, and spreadsheets we all create every day. This creates barriers that keep our colleagues and coworkers from doing their jobs effectively, prevent students from getting the most out of their education, and hinder authors from reaching their broadest possible audience. We all share the responsibility of breaking down these barriers by making our own content accessible—but often that is easier said than done.
Over the past few years, we’ve been working to bring accessibility into the flow of content creation within Microsoft 365—to make checking accessibility as natural and simple as checking spelling and [...]