Microsoft Accessibility Feedback
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Disability is normal part of human diversity
First, kudos to you on making technologies accessible to all. Learning Tools are awsome. Please keep working on making all tecnologies fully accessible to people with different types of disabilities. You are doing a great job, but you can always do better 😊.
Here are some suggestions related to your post Microsoft + Made by Dyslexia: Helping students with dyslexia with technology. In this post there is a confusing reference to the definition of dyslexia. "These students whose language based learning difference causes a deficiency with phonological processing when learning to read, are often mistakenly labeled as having a learning…
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Attach the question you are answering along with your answer
Today I received a responce to the problem that I had. The NEW problem is, because I have short term memory loss, I do not know what the original problem was. It was NOT attached to the response. PLEASE include the question you are answering with the answer.
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I have had Office 365 for years. Recently I began receiving a pop-up that said you needed my help with a problem. Tell me???
If Microsoft doesn't have a program that will let them know whether or not I have Office 365 on my COMPUTER, maybe someone can write that program. If a program is already written and in use, does it recognize that I have Office 365 on my computer?
Why do I continually get a pop-up that informs me there is a problem with my account, yet when I go to my account, I am NOT INFORMED of a problem.
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chat on accessibility support chat is no help all thay do is run me around when ask a question ever time not renewing my office 365
chat on accessibility support chat is no help all thay do is run me around when ask a question ever time not renewing my office 365
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Microsoft Teams Notification Time
It is great to finally have notification in Teams that a meeting has started... Could we please have some more time to react or have a setting to set that time. By the time my executive function has processed and I need to make a choice the notification pops away and I am left with no easy means to join.
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please extend the free upgrade window 10 for accessibility users
please extend the free upgrade window 10 for accessibility users
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Lock Security Passkey for Ms Access Navigation Pane
I really hope ms access will have a lock security with passkey feature to enable / disable navigation pane. This would help developers to protect their development work.
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Soundscape and use with blue tooth hearing aids.
1. In Uk 25% of visually impaired also have hearing defects. Many contemporary digital hearing aids have the capacity toluse blue tooth which means users who are hearing as well as sight impaired can use their aids at the same time as Sounscape
Its a great Ap. Considerably extends my ability to get round and identify where I am as well as helps resolve situations in which you are not sure where you are. Some UK National Health Hearing Aid Services will supply a digital blue tooth enabled hearing aid to those who can demonstrate a need for it.
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Please allow comments to be deletable in Microsoft Office 2016 with the keyboard.
According to the following article:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/insert-or-delete-a-comment-8d3f868a-867e-4df2-8c68-bf96671641e2
There is no way to delete comments in word with a keyboard.
This is very difficult to work with as I can't give clients completed, but annotated documents from my coworkers.
Please fix this ASAP!4 votes -
fix the Win10 accessability release so that Security Essentials works...mine hasn't been able to update since I installed Win10!
The accessibility WIN10 I installed hasn't been able to update Security Essentials since day #1. Nothing I have done, including reinstallation and installation of the "Fall Creator's Update" (whatever that is...) 1709 hasn't helped. I've had to buy Malwarebytes to keep things alive. And since your little subject box above doesn't offer "Security", I've had to select something irrelevant.
And simply trying to do normal maint. updates results in some sort of "organizational" message -- I'm a standalone installation!
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Make Immersive Reader in Office Lens for Android available in Spanish
Office Lens is available in several languages but in the Android version is not possible to change the Immersive Reader voice to Spanish
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Microsoft Excel
There is a series problem navigating with keyboard in Microsoft excel 365 and apparently in older versions.
The F6 key dos not go to the sheets area in the workbook
As a result a keyboard user without a screen reader cannot perform actions on a sheet using the right click Key
Using Alt + H O R is very difficult to use with keyboard only – and spatially for People with motor-handicapped hands
Even if you can add buttons to a Quick Access Toolbar, navigating it might create a load if there are too much buttons on these toolbar
So…2 votes -
Well i have recently been banned from messaging and speaking for a week and it was for no reason
please Unban my account from speaking and messaging because i didnt do anything wrong
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disability % option on your personal LinkedIn profile.
easy way to find disability people for companies that need to hire disability people if we create a new opton in our particular LinkedIn profile where your can place if you have desability and in wich %.
Thanks
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not require users (disabled or otherwise) to have a cellphone number to set up a Microsoft account (as this could breach the Equality Act)
Through disability I do not use a cellphone (others do not due to lack of coverage) but found I couldn't set up a Microsoft Account without one and therefore couldn't activate my new copy of Microsoft Office.
It took and hour-long call to Microsoft's (very helpful) Accessibility Helpline just to to get my Microsoft Office activated.
Others might be tempted to use a friend's cellphone; thus leaving somebody else's number on file (a potential security risk).
Surely a company such as Microsoft cannot have missed the implications of requiring a cellphone (texts) in respect of those with disabilities and /or…
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Make Gaze Speak available as download in South Africa
Per information on this website- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gazespeak-1.pdf
You have developed an app eye gaze.
We have however tried all avenues to download this to assist with my father in law that due to his condition cannot speak. We live in South Africa so not sure why not available here?
If you could send us a link where we can download this on an I-Pad
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I suggest you use Sports and technology to bring joy to the 57 million disabled in his country.
I'm chairman of United States adaptive golf alliance Bring in the joy and sense of freedom go Over 15,000 disabled individuals annually of which 26% our wounded veterans.
Combine the power of Microsoft with our initiative to take the 1st USA Para-Golf TEAM to the Paralympics in 2024, Will not only prove the power of golf, but the power of technology to excite the 57 million disable in our country. Join us along with Coca-Cola, US special Olympics, etc..2 votes -
Please include BeeLine Reader
Please integrate BeeLine reader for those with Dyslexia using Microsoft Outlook. Thank you!
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office 2013/16 constantly deactivates with windows 10.
office 2013/16 deactivates about once a month. It is very difficult to uninstall then reinstall the key for office and doing this isn't exactly very accessible. Please fix this!
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Incorporate beeline reader
Makes reading easier and more enjoyable. Takes my eyes for a 'walk'.
5 votes
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