Disability Answering Desk is wonderful, but Microsoft engineers probably don’t care about PWD. Every time when Microsoft upgrade new version for many of us everything is so none accessible that we need to call DAD every day beg for help.
You just implement new upgrade and now many pages are out of normal size of screen. No matter what I did decrease or increase screen it doesn’t help and DAD wonderful people don’t know a solution!
I attached just few print screens, but I can show you much more. You have still Ronaldo and few others who try very hard to find a solution, but how about engenderers! Do you know about ADA –the law that all PWD have the same rights to access as non-disabled people?
Thank you
Luda

Hello. In the latest version of Skype for desktop, currently 98.51, screen reader users are facing a major productivity issue. When opening a conversation, either from the recent chats list or by just pressing enter on a contact, keyboard navigation becomes completely unresponsive for up to 15 seconds. During this time, You can not do anything in Skype, and if you try to navigate it causes the whole program to freeze and sometimes go into not responding as well. To reproduce the bug, make sure that a screen reader such as Jaws or NVDA is running. Now, press alt plus 1 to view the list of recent chats. Press enter on any conversation, and you should see the behaviour I described above. I hope your team can address this issue as fast as possible and also make sure to test with a screen reader to prevent such major issues in the future.

Cortana Voice command to quick send critical text/ email/voice instant message to select contacts, with an emergency screen flashing sequence saying SOS User XYZ is in distress, please reach or call now on +98094809248 and with options to engage Kaizala, Teams and other webcams and more in all signed in devices, also Emergency details like contacts,blood group, allergies , last location visible to everyone in emergency contact alert list, and also can be invoked by special key combination or Voice Command, Android has it so should Google, and yes the internet is still unreliable, and canNOT replace 911 or distress phone numbers yet, but maybe it should assist in any way it can! Especially useful for people with disabilities and kids!

Hello,

I suggest adding a Narrator API allowing to make speak some text .
GUI application developers would call this API to inform Narrator users of changes in their application.

For example in a chat application, incoming messages should be read as they arrive, even if the focus is currently outside of the chat window.
Another example: during a lengthy task, users would like to be informed about the progression at regular interval, perhaps with something more clearer than just a simple percentage.

On the web, this is often called live region. There's no similar possibility in native GUI applications (WPF, MFC, Win32GUI, wxWidgets, QT, etc.)

Other major screen readers on the market (Jaws and NVDA) provie such API.
For Jaws via a COM object freedomsci.JawsAPI, for NVDA via a library nvdaControllerClient.dll.

I'm the author of [UniversalSpeech](http://github.com/qtnc/UniversalSpeech).
This library unifies the different specific API of the scren readers so that application developers call a single API to make the currently running screen reader speak some text (if any, of course).
Given that Narrator is becoming greater and greater with the successive Windows 10 updates, it would certainly be interesting if Narrator was supported.