Welcome to the Microsoft Accessibility blog! This is a central blog all about accessible technology from the Microsoft community of people passionate about accessibility. Various people will blog here on topics such as the end-user experience, the developer experience and the underlying technologies that enable accessibility.

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• Prototype of accessible media player for the web

  At the TechEd EMEA conference in Barcelona a few weeks ago, during a talk on making web experiences accessible, we gave our first public airing of a video player written in Silverlight which is capable of meeting all of the WCAG 2.0 Time based media Guidelines Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2008 12:52 AM by AnnuskaP | 1 Comments Filed under: Web Accessibility, hard of hearing, deaf, cognitive, blind

• Summit on Cyber-Infrastructure for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students

  Last week, I participated in a summit on the technology needs of university students who are deaf and hard-of-hearing (“deaf/HH”). The summit was hosted by the Rochester Institute of Technology National Technology Institute of the Deaf . The primary purpose Read More... Posted Thursday, July 03, 2008 10:28 PM by AnnuskaP | 1 Comments Filed under: academic research, hard of hearing, deaf