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1. Empowering everyone
with Microsoft Teams
David J. Rosenthal
VP & GM, Digital Business
May 7, 2020
Microsoft Virtual Executive Briefing

2. Low light
Situational
Blind
Permanent
Cataract
Temporary
Sight
Touch

3. 1 Billion
people experience some form of disability1
74%
of Americans who live with severe disabilities do not
use wheelchairs, crutches, or walkers2
80%
of people with disabilities acquire them while between
the ages of 18 to 643
1. https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/disability
2. https://invisibledisabilities.org/what-is-an-invisible-disability/
3. https://disabilitycompendium.org/sites/default/files/user-
uploads/2017_AnnualReport_2017_FINAL.pdf

4. *Source: 2018 Accenture study: The Disability Inclusion Advantage
Companies that embrace inclusion outperform their peers*

5. How are you proactively
promoting an inclusive work
environment for all employees?

6. “Building an inclusive workplace
starts with culture. Every person
has a role to play in embracing
inclusion. There are so many
tools available for you as well as
tools available you can use to
empower others in the
organization”
- Jenny Larry Flurrie
Chief Accessibility Officer

7. Chat
Communicate effectively with everyone regardless
of language, cognitive needs, or visual capabilities
Collaboration
Enable collaboration for everyone regardless of
learning pace, motor skills, or preferred communication
Meetings
Ensure that everyone can participate and
understand with live closed captioning and
automatic transcription

8. Permanent
Hard of hearing
Temporary
Reading in an airport
Situational
English Language
Learners
Closed captions and automatic meeting transcripts
Work in noisy locations with volume off and captions on
• Ensure understanding with real-time live closed captions
• Replay an entire meeting or search using transcription
• Customize text size and color for closed captions
Text telephone (TTY)
Support for TTY phone calls
Background blur
Focus on the meeting

9. Dark or High Contrast Mode
Personalize an experience with Dark or High Contrast mode and the ability to
zoom in
• Customize the workspace and aid productivity comfortably with Dark mode
• Relieve eye strain when working long hours on computers in low-light
environments
• Allow users with low vision to read on-screen text with High Contrast mode
Permanent
Light sensitivity
Temporary
Recovering from surgery
Situational
Working on computer for a
long time/working at night
Priority access
Use priority access only for your
most important communications
with colleagues when you are in Do
Not Disturb mode
Automatic chat translation
Include people who speak different
languages with automatic chat
translation

10. Immersive reader
Make chats easier for everyone to consume and understand with
Immersive reader
• Highlight and read aloud words from the written page when multitasking
• Focus on sentence structure for emerging readers
• Increase ease of learning and comprehension for those with
learning disabilities
Permanent
Dyslexia
Temporary
Teaching to read
Situational
Focus
Dictate
Convert speech to text with
speech recognition and Dictate
Accessibility Checker
Collaborate with others within your
Teams UI with Accessibility Checker

11. Meetings Chat Collaboration
Everyone can understand
and participate in team
discussions
Access meetings and participate
from anywhere with Teams’ Mobile,
Web, and Desktop apps
Enable everyone to understand the
discussion with Closed Captions and
Automatic Meeting Transcripts
Everyone can easily read
and respond to team
communications
Increase focus and limit distractions
with Do Not Disturb mode
Minimize communication barriers
with language translation
Accommodate for different visual
and cognitive needs by customizing
the reading and viewing experience
Everyone can co-create
content in a way that works
for them
Enable the right content at the right
pace with Immersive Reader
Ensure Microsoft Office content is
easy for all people to read and edit
Enable hands-free communication

12. Microsoft has a repository of helpful, detailed support articles on Windows, Office 365, and Microsoft Teams, as well as a
Disability Answer Deck for end users, and an Enterprise Disability Answer Desk for organizations. Both offer support on
Office 365 and Windows via phone, chat, videophone, or the Be My Eyes app.
Windows and Office accessibility support
Chat with us Call us ASL Be My Eyes

13. “Now that I have Microsoft
Teams, I feel more confident
that I can communicate clearly
and quickly”
- Kabir
Student at City of Westminster College,
Future computer scientist,
Deaf

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15. Appendix

16. Inclusive Chat - Chat confidently with
editable chats, even after you’ve hit send
Microsoft Teams Accessibility
Additional features
Microsoft Teams’ features are designed around the concept that all users should be able to collaborate effectively and
have access to a productive and comfortable work environment.
Inclusive Meetings - Bring the whiteboard
to your laptop with Whiteboard
integration in Microsoft Teams meetings
Inclusive Collaboration - Find what
you need easily with Search and
commands.

17. Microsoft Teams Accessibility
Additional features
Microsoft Teams offers multiple options for users to customize how they navigate and interact with their environment and
each other. With accessibility features such as Sticky Keys, speech recognition, dictation, and support for eye-tracking
hardware, Microsoft Teams is designed for everyone to collaborate.
Inclusive Collaboration - Get work done quickly with
Keyboard shortcuts
Inclusive Chat - Prioritize communication
with priority access only for your most
important colleagues
Inclusive Meetings - Organize meetings
efficiently by adding Microsoft Teams
meeting dial-ins right from Outlook with just
one click.