Making our world more inclusive
Microsoft - Digital Accessibility

19:00 - 16:00

About the workshop

With more than 1 billion people with disabilities in the world, Microsoft believes that accessibility is essential to delivering on our mission to “empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.” However, our mission doesn’t begin and end with the products we create and the services we offer. It extends to the culture of our workplace and weaving accessibility into the fabric of our company—from hiring people with disabilities, to creating inclusive marketing, and awarding our Accessibility in Action digital badge. Technology can unlock solutions that empower people with disabilities and lead to greater innovations for everyone. To enable transformative change accessibility needs to be a priority. We aim to build it into what we design for every team, organization, classroom, and home
At Microsoft, we understand the power of technology, and that's why we continue to innovate, create, and design in a way that gives everyone the ability to achieve more.
We believe that accessible technology is a fundamental building block that can unlock opportunities in every part of society. Our work starts by ensuring that Microsoft’s own products are accessible by design, so that as we advance our features and functionality, we can help everyone across the spectrum of disability be more productive. We will then expand our reach with new tools and data resources to support software development across our industry and by other organizations that create software services for their customers or employees. Finally, we will support this with a broad technology initiative with new support for basic research and new data science capabilities to advance innovation on an ongoing basis

What are the workshop’s objectives

Employees  : Talent recruitment, Inclusive solutions for employees, Readiness

CSR : Tech for good, Social impact, Coaching / Reskilling

Compliance : Digital for all w/o discriminations, Web compliance, Communication for all

Business : Increase business: solutions for all, Create innovations: AI & Cloud, Universal design approach