Microsoft Accessibility Update, July 2011

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July 2011

Accessibility enables people of all abilities to realize their fu potential. Microsoft creates technology that is accessible to people around the world­­of all ages and abilities

This Month's Features

Video: Find and fix accessibility issues in a workbook Learn how to use the Accessibility Checker in Microsoft Excel 2010 to find and fix issues that can make it difficult for people with disabilities to read or otherwise interact with your workbook.

Guide for people with vision Touching children's lives with impairments Microsoft Microsoft Surface technology products include powerful "Surface evangelist" helps accessibility features that make develop applications to support it easier to see your computer if diagnostics and treatment of you have low vision or autism worldwide. Also, learn colorblindness. Or, if you are about Microsoft Surface blind, Windows 7 allows you to technology which uses a touch work effectively without a interface and requires neither a display­­using sound or touch. monitor nor a mouse.

Four ways to help a student control the mouse View this video to learn how to help students develop greater control at the computer by making a few simple adjustments to the mouse.

Tips and Tricks

Microsoft Office: Customize the Quick Access Toolbar The Quick Access Toolbar is a customizable toolbar that contains a set of commands that are independent of the tab on the ribbon that is currently displayed. You can move the Quick Access Toolbar from one of the two possible locations, and you can add buttons that represent commands to it.

More Office 2010 Help and How­to

Customize the Internet Explorer toolbars Internet Explorer has several toolbars­­all of which can be customized to fit your needs and preferences. These include the Menu bar, the Favorites bar, the Command bar, the Address bar (where you can type a web address), and the status bar (which displays messages such as a webpage's download progress).

More Windows 7 Help and How­to

For Developers Games for Everyone: Testing for accessibility presentation from Gamefest 2010 Making a game more accessible can make the game that much better for all users. But how can we go about testing for accessibility? This presentation discusses some of the methods that are already in use and some of the methods that are being developed to test accessibility in Microsoft Game Studios titles.

The MSDN Accessibility Developer Resource Center pulls together content and resources on the development of accessibility products and technologies.

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About the Microsoft Accessibility Update Newsletter The Microsoft Accessibility Update provides information about accessibility including accessibility options in Microsoft products. This newsletter is sent via e­mail to subscribers in the first week of

the month and is also published on the Microsoft Accessibility Website.