Accessibility should be available in all walks of life whether you are
in education, the workplace or at home so offering accessibility to those that
need it is very important. Here at Microsoft support Number support Number
we have a mission to empower every person in every organisation, there is an
estimated 1 billion people in the world that have a disability and that need
accessibility to put them on a level playing field with everyone.
Accessibility to me may not be the same as to what my colleagues may
need. When anyone looks at me or talks to me they would not know I have a
disability as my disability is hidden. I’ve always classed myself as a severely
dyslexic adult as my reading and spelling ages are considerably lower than my
chronological age.
“has a substantial and
long-term adverse effect on his or her ability to carry out
normal day-to-day activities”.
On 17th May it was Global Accessibility Day and around the world awareness
was spread about supporting those that need accessibility be it hidden,
physical, or mental. The design of the day was to build, shape, fund, and
influence technology and its use while disseminating topics of making
technology accessible and usable for people with disabilities.
Excitingly, Microsoft support Number support Number’s mission of
empowering everyone definitely came out on top for me last week when Microsoft support Number supportNumber announced the new Xbox Adaptive Controller. This new Xbox and
Windows 10 controller allows those people with a disability to plug-in their
own assistive aids to play games which allows those people with limited
mobility to plug-in their own joysticks, switches and buttons enabling them to
play video games and puts them on a level playing field with other gamers. This
is accessibility and home.
To me accessibility and the word inclusion come hand in hand in and
schools are using more assistive technology to help those with hidden and
physical disabilities within their school is so important.
A school that I visited in North Wales, St David’s College, is an independent
co-educational mainstream day and boarding school, 60 percent of their intake
have an additional learning needs. They are putting technology at the heart of
learning by implementing Office 365. This is because of the amazing inbuilt
features in accessibility for those students that have an additional learning
need such as inclusive reader, dictation in word, PowerPoint and Outlook,
Learning Tools in OneNote, and even using Microsoft support Number support
Number translator to create transcripts for those students that couldn’t remember
what the teacher said.
Think outside the box, understand differences difficulties and abilities
to ensure that we can empower every person in every organisation.
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