With kids needing to be online for school everyday, parents need a way to restrict how much screen time they have for apps which are not school. I would like to be able to group my child's apps into categories and then assign a total time to each category.

For example: I would like to limit my child's gaming screen-time regardless of which game they are playing.
The current controls only let me set the time for each game which allows them to play each game to the limit for a total of many many hours past the desired screen time total for games.

There must be a way to help those like me who have brain haemorrhages/injury! every time I mess up trying to access services online I am required to use passwords/reset passwords etc. I cant remember which password is which for what and when.
I also cant remember what to do if I look for solutions to problems. eg. If you mess up and youre told to go to setting then something else then something else, click on this and that and then reboot/try again etc. Whoa! Once Ive read all those instructions I cant get past going to Settings. After that Im lost - totally lost. Helplines treat me as though I'm clueless. Im sorry but as a former civil engineer I just cant help it.
My Bank have me listed as vulnerable because I cant remember what information I supplied to access accounts. I have a list of passwords written in a book which I keep by my pc and don't want to change passwords if I can help it. On numerous occasions I've been told I cant use that password because I've used it before. If I could remember how to paste a gentlemans name who is supposed to be heading accessibility at MSoft I would do it here to ask if we Brain injured people could be helped.
Thank you for reading/listening.
Paul Beckett

Hi there,

I'd like to follow up about my inquiry to include a feature on Narrator to read highlighted text only by pressing a hot key. This feature does not currently exist, but instead, Narrator reads off all sorts of content which is distracting. I simply need to be able to highlight text, press a hot key, and have that text read without the distracting announcements that Narrator produces each time you switch windows, select content, etc. I work on secure computers that don't allow plug-ins or the adding of additional software to enable this capability, and would greatly appreciate some help. The incident number is 1498702417. This request for changes to the software was sent to the engineering team to address. Can you please advise on the progress of this?

It may be that this capability needs to be built outside of the Narrator software as a general hotkey within Windows to allow users the ability to hear text who don't need all the functions of Narrator. Thanks so much for your help.

Please see the following information on how this is achieved on a Mac: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/have-your-mac-speak-text-thats-on-the-screen-mh27448/mac

As alternative text is supposed to describe what is in the picture and the generated text does not do so, the text reader algorithm should be fixed.

I was creating cards with Power Point to friends of my wedding fotos. All alternative texts were only about one person - of my husband! I was either not described at all or described as "waterfall" due my long hem of the white gown.
Why the alt text algorithm does not recognize faces (of women)? Why it does not understand when a person is standing sideways? And so on...

Please Microsoft: consider improving the algorithm which generates the alt text. Thank you.

My son is blind and is using Microsoft Teams for school now. He has figured out how to navigate around the Microsoft Teams app on his windows laptop using NVDA and the keyboard, but is unable to actually select the 'Join' button whenever there is a meeting. I've contacted support who just referred me to generic articles like https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-a-screen-reader-to-join-a-meeting-in-microsoft-teams-7f176bc8-68a8-4984-b9b3-ae907a8eaa69#PickTab=Windows, but we've tried everything suggested and nothing worked. My son is very used to finding how to access things using NVDA so it just seems like it's not possible now. Please do let me know if there are some secret steps we're missing.

office on my ic with jaws 2020 is slow and when i go to work with the calendar or other things its intuitiveness is unclear to you it may be considered accessible but to me its not I have no clear way to add a recurring reminder. I can add events and appointments but deleting mistakes is a difficult thing. I wish once i saw the calendar it gave jaws related or nvda related tips. I wish the keyboard related help right out. finding the related help i need seems difficult. I am going to work on the calendar and find out how to set reminders on my computer with nvda but i really need to do this with jaws i want medication reminders in my outlook.

Good to hear from you and hope you're fine . Stay safe.

We are from India BM Soft Solutions , Puducherry, working in Accessibility, XML conversion ,EPub conversion, Type setting, Copy editing ,proof reading ,Web site development and App development (Hybrid App and Native App) all above mentioned mainly depends on Microsoft products .

Coming to Microsoft Azure is there any way the above said work listed can be simplified, quickened using Microsoft azure or Microsoft software’s tools, resources as we tried and failed to get common look software unavailable in our region and waiting for this release https://commonlook.com/google-chrome-new-accessibility-feature-launched-commonlook-expertise/ to check it out.

We would like to register and become Microsoft partners to get all the benefits and grow both businesses together . Request your kind help to us by forwarding this mail to the right people. Myself and my colleague both are Microsoft certified professional with (ID #6276050) and (ID #9598508)

We would like to be the reseller for any Microsoft products in our hometown, Puducherry.

We also request to send details of any future Microsoft Training ,webinar and conference as we are willing to learn and get guidance to reach new customers and accelerate our business growth.

Thanks and Regards,

Subramanian C

Project Manager | BM Soft Solutions

Mobile Number:91-9150655026 / 9843484830

Company Website : http://bmsoftsolutions.com/

I had to choose a non-related subject after more than an hour searching for help so I request you read the entirety of my note before chastising me-again-- for not being able to find the correct place to ask for help. I am 62 years old, disabled, and know very little about computer tech. Nor should I. I won't give you any more of my time than I have to. Your windows 10 update bricked my laptop and being disabled means there's no funds to repair or replace it. In the past I have spent dozens of hours trying to address this recurring issue and MS's end result is always "too bad", "tough luck,", "obviously we destroyed your laptop but we can't be held accountable," so "buy a new laptop you've already told us you can't possibly afford."

Following the most recent update forced down my throat my laptop won't come on at all. Virtually every assistance place I can find on your site starts after booting a system I can't boot. I have devoted literally thousands of hours working with highly specific software for my Christmas light hobby which is quite difficult due to my disability related learning difficulty. I can't afford a backup system so if I cannot retrieve the work on my laptop I will quite literally lose tears of therapeutic work and results. There can be no doubt the update is the cause of my issue as these more often than not create a new obstacle I have to spend hours on finding repair information plus MS's own recognition/admission updates cause a myriad of simple to severe problems on owner's equipment.

I assume my concern will need to he forwarded to a different department but please do not send me on another never ending circle by telling me to do it myself. I ask the courtesy of the reader to find the appropriate location and follow up with that location to insure my needs are addressed.

My disability makes learning embarrassingly, even humiliatingly impossible at times. I am literally incapable of any additional research and am fully at the mercy and/or compassion of the reader.