This would be helpful in Windows (all applications), or an App for iOS. I work with veterans who frequently have print disabilities due to stroke (hemianopsia or neglect). This makes reading in a crowded environment difficult. It would be helpful if there was a way to mask text so only one line appears at a time, with the option for text scrolling (like a TV ticker) to move text into their "reading view" without having to move their eyes. (This saccadic movement causes people to lose their place and not be able to retain what they have read).

In an app format, it would be helpful to be able to use this for things like downloaded e-books (either Kindle or e-Pub format from the library) so that they would be able to continue to read at their leisure.

In addition, having text to speech in this area might be helpful for some (but can be more distracting for others), but should be a feature that can be turned on/off. If it is, along with text highlighting, the highlighting/reading needs to happen in sync (this is not the case with most text to speech/highlighting options across many platforms).

After updating to Windows 1903 Eye Control has started to not operate after using it for a short period.
After using Eye Control for a while, it stops responding after using the Eye Control mouse to select something. The Tobii sensor and eye movement is still operating correctly on Tobii, but Eye Control does not pick up the eyes gazing at the Eye Control Launchpad. The only way to fix it is get somebody to turn off Eye Control and then turn Eye Control back on. (Tobii remains on all the time). It operates ok for some time (30 min to 60min) and then the problem reoccurs. This problem did not occur when system was using Windows 1803. (I use Eye Control every day due to disability)

I'm probably posting this in the wrong location but this was the closest forum I could find.
I want to make an appeal to Microsoft's Accessibillity champions to run some internal training for the folk that prepare Microsoft's web page content and promotional emails. Please teach them how to write effective link text rather than using 'click here' .

Contextual text links have been a Web Content Accessibilty Guidelines (WCAG) requirement for a very long time now. And giving users an instruction to click something is not inclusive; mobile users tap, keyboard users press enter, etc
I'm trying to get my content authors to do the right thing, but while ever content provided by a leading organisation like Microsoft doesn't model best practice, my people don't listen to me.
You're doing such great work in other areas of accessibility, so I hope you can fit this into your workplan

After Windows is installed, the Cortana experience guides someone through setting up Windows for the first time. Unfortunately, Narrator is unable to speak while Cortana is speaking. It is necessary to wait for a pause in the Cortana dialogue to use Narrator. This behavior is absolutely unacceptable and should be changed ASAP! Narrator should always take priority over anything else because it is a vital accessibility service.

If Cortana is jabbering away, enabling Narrator or using any command should immediately silence it and let Narrator take over. Cortana is not an accessibility service, so I truly do not understand why it is taking priority over something as vital as Narrator.

Hello,

One of my coworkers finds it extremely difficult to use Skype due to the nature of the GIF images. They play incessantly and he cannot stop them. There is no mechanism to Pause, Stop or Hide the content. He has resorted to using this method to push the GIF out of the viewport:
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Thank you for your time

Jason Ament

Microsoft has moved to a icon/picture based tool system that is like Chinese to many of us. Why can't we have text discriptions under the icons? I learned to read when I was 4 so I could stop looking at pictures. Now, my damaged brain does not interpret pictures. What is that icon that looks like an old school building? What are 3 horizontal bars? What is the circle with a line off the side? Is it the symbol for No gender? Can I get rid of the styles box? It is distracting my eyes as I look for the tool I need.
What are we supposed to do when we MUST use Win 10? I can't find anything in Win 10.
Where are my documents I save in Word when I open File Explorer. I look in Documents and find some but not others but I can find them in Word?
Stop fixing things until they are broken.

I control my computer entirely by voice, which mostly involves mapping voice commands to keyboard shortcuts to control things. This works well provided the keyboard shortcuts exist.

Virtual desktops in Windows 10 are a great feature, but are missing some quite obvious and essential functionality. In particular there are no keyboard shortcuts for going to particular workspaces by number, or for moving windows between workspaces. For example the recommended way to move a window from workspace one to workspace five is to open the task view and then drag the window around. This seems like terrible UX even for normal users, but is pretty much impossible without a mouse.

I would propose:
* shortcuts for navigating between workspaces (win-(1-9)?)
* shortcuts for moving the current window to a different workspace (win-s-(1-9)?)

See also this thread for people having similar issues:
https://superuser.com/questions/950452/how-to-quickly-move-current-window-to-another-task-view-desktop-in-windows-10

Thanks, Mike

I have an email account that I have been locked out of. So getting no help I did what it said and opened a new account. I now have 5 email accounts that I can't use to log in.
I AM BLIND, I AM IN A WHEELCHAIR, MOBILITY AND FLEXIBILITY IS BEYOND HARD. I HAVE DIFFICULTY WITH MEMORY FROM A COMA I WAS PLACED IN TO SAVE MY LIFE.
Sir/Madam my nurse is writing this for me. NO ONE WILL HELP. It goes around and around in a loop and this is the only place to put it.
It happens because it says unusual activity on my account.
Goodness is that all? I have to try to work out where my fingers are to type and sometimes I may have to try a few times to get access then I'm locked out.
I can't go out so I need a computer FOR SAFTEY and TO CONNECT WITH MEDICAL PERSONS IF NEEDED. I can't get help to set up the PC for assistive technology either despite asking and asking, then some bright spark decides to send an email saying do this do that and your in. HAVE YOU CONSIDERED I CAN'T SEE IT OR EVEN UNDERSTAND IT.
To be asked to put a list of people I have sent emails to, HOW???? I can't see the address and it is for emergency not pleasure.
Then to ask the title of the emails. ARE YOU STARK STARING MAD HOW????
This is discrimination even when I try to explain I get no help. plus I keep getting a sound and a notice that my settings are out of date for the email address.
WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO GET HELP???
WHY WON'T ANYONE LISTEN TO ME????
AM I CONSIDERED STUPID BECAUSE OF MY SITUATION???

SHAME ON YOU MICROSOFT THIS IS GOING TO BE PUBLISHED ON EVERY SITE I CAN PUBLISH IT ON BECAUSE THIS IS A WASTE OF MY TIME AND I DON'T HAVE TIME TO WASTE.

Do I sound disgruntled = well I am.

So no thanks to you Microsoft and I hope you have as many miserable wasted days as I have had.

I've been everywhere. Feedback Hub, Reddit, Microsoft Accessibility/Support-based accounts on Twitter, Disabled Help Desk. Can we please give this problem some real-world attention by someone who can actually help?

As of Windows 10 Build 1809 - The registry fix of setting "ImmersiveContextMenu" to "0", located at "Computer\HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\FlightedFeatures", no longer has any effect in disabling the new 'immersive context menu'.

Windows shell has the new style, including desktop, file explorer and open dialog boxes in all applications. Why is this a problem? Why was I previously using a registry tweak to remove the new immersive context menu? Just look at it! Please, just look at it, and imagine you have eyesight problems of your own.

tinyurl page link - http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=mua9t5&s=9
direct image link - http://oi68.tinypic.com/mua9t5.jpg

I believe the image speaks for itself in terms of the problems that removing the old Windows code presents for disabled users.

1. light grey selection color on white background is hard to see from a distance.




2. this new wide context menu ignores advanced display settings, such as bold text.

For the majority of people without disabilities, or eyesight problems, the visual presentation used by the new immersive context menu likely poses zero issues. It might be unsightly or annoying, but it does not present an actual issue for them to contend with. As I say, I was already using a workaround to restore the old context menu, which I didn't mind having to do, but now even that has been taken away.

To further cause greif, it is not possible to ''freeze'' windows 10 on a certain build, and never recieve further Windows Updates, is it? So even if I were to leave the Insiders Program, I would eventually have to accept the update again once it hits the general public release ring. Unless, I'm lead to believe, the ''Products team'' will see this post, and I manage to do a good enough job at proving the struggle for disabled people caused by what, as-far-as-i-can-tell, amounts to a simple design choice. If that fails, I believe my only course of action would be to instal Windows 8.1 on every new machine I purchase going-forward. But even that isn't a good enough solution because there can be software tied to Windows 10-forward Operating Systems, an example being Sony's PlayStation 4 Remote Play app.

Can we please get some help? Just re-instate the registry values for us to continue using the reg tweak workaround, and most of the general public who aren't disabled can continue-on blissfully unaware that there was ever a problem to begin with. I am feeling very unhappy at this moment in time, seemingly being able to do nothing to fix the problem myself, and feeling like different public-facing support teams are also unable to help.