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The following post is authored by Wendy Chisholm – Senior Accessibility Strategist at Microsoft. She is co-author of “Universal Design for Web Applications” (O’Reilly) and a former editor of W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 and 2.0. With 17 years of...

WUD’s Up? The annual World Usability Day (WUD) is on November 8, 2012. WUD is a collection of events streamed live around the globe (for more information, go to http://www.worldusabilityday.org/ ). Microsoft and the University of Washington’s Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering...

This blog post was written by Daniel Hubbell, Senior Marketing Communications manager at Microsoft. Daniel’s career spans more than 12 years at Microsoft and his current role is focused on increasing the awareness of accessibility with consumers and regularly speaks at events and conferences on...

This blog post was written by Alex Li, Senior Accessibility Policy and Standards Strategist at Microsoft - Alex works with national and international standards organizations to improve the level of Accessibility for people with disabilities. --- Throughout my career I have often been asked the...

The following blog post was written by Gary Moulton, Senior Marcom Manager at Microsoft. Gary works on technology issues related to aging and people with disabilities, and has worked at Microsoft for 17 years. ---- During the very early days of the internet there was a bulletin board system ( BBS...

The following blog post has been written by Laura Ruby - Director of Accessibility Policy and Standards at Microsoft. She has worked on Accessibility Policy and Standards in the technology sector for over 22 years and cherishes her long standing relationships with government, consumer, and industry stakeholders...

Dan and Gary spend Sunday afternoon at Santa Monica Pier talking to passers-by about accessibility.

Greetings! As many of you know Microsoft has kicked off the developer preview of Windows 8 at the BUILD conference in Anaheim just a few short weeks ago. Although you may not have been able to make it to the conference, there is still an opportunity to experience the keynote, sessions, and Windows 8...