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This quarter, we've continued on our path toward greater inclusivity in Microsoft Teams meetings for people with disabilities. Make your presentations more ...

If you have a disability and need technical assistance with any Microsoft product the Disability Answer Desk (DAD) can assist you via phone (800-936-5900) or chat. Enterprise customers can also reach out to the Enterprise Disability Answer Desk (eDAD) with questions about accessibility features, product compliance, and assistive technologies. To capture stray thoughts, you can now use the Teams Chat with Self feature to send yourself notes, messages, files, and images or videos, helping you keep everything in one place for tracking or transferring to your To Do list. Ensuring that our products empower everyone to connect, communicate, and contribute is core to Microsoft’s mission, and we are committed to continual improvement in this space. Tools that foster a sense of control over time and tasks can help alleviate anxiety, contribute to better work-life balance, and reduce the chances of burnout. And beyond Teams, WebVTT caption files can now be added to embedded videos in presentations composed in PowerPoint for Mac (currently in Insiders). You can also now add or edit captions and transcripts for Stream videos (including Teams meeting recordings) stored in SharePoint or OneDrive for Business to improve accessibility and accuracy, especially for tough-to-capture content like acronyms. And across the web versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote, you can now use ALT + period to more easily display quick access keys for navigating the ribbon commands. Cameo is available in PowerPoint for Windows and Mac, and will appear when you present in PowerPoint Live in Teams as well (in public preview). And now in Insiders, Cameo with Recording Studio allows you to easily customize the size, position, shape, and effects on your camera feed for a more personal and immersive message within recorded presentations. Learn more about tracking changes in Word, simplifying collaboration in Whiteboard, and using suggested replies in Teams For people with motor or vision disabilities or dyslexia – as well as situational disabilities like trying to catch up on email while walking the dog – using speech-to-text and text-to-speech can be easier than working with a keyboard and screen. When it comes time to “proof-listen” to your document, Read Aloud now works in locked-screen mode on iOS, so you can just drop your phone in your pocket and keep listening. This quarter, we’ve continued on our path toward greater inclusivity in Microsoft Teams meetings for people with disabilities.