Accessibility
Microsoft Accessibility
Microsoft strives to create experiences that are accessible and welcoming to everyone. We are committed to engaging with attendees to determine effective and reasonable accommodations, adjustments, or modifications that allow our attendees with disabilities to participate in our events. Celebrate & Year In Review will include the following accessibility considerations.
Learn more about some of our accessibility offerings:
Both live and on-demand captions for videos can be turned on and allow for customization that includes ensuring basic size, contrast, font style, and placement in the video player. Captions in English are professionally translated by a human. AI-generated closed captions for other languages are fed by that English translation. To learn more about closed captions, visit: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
On the path towards inclusive language adoption in our flagship events, we are proud to currently offer the following AI generated translations:
- Arabic
- Bulgarian
- Chinese Simplified
- Chinese Traditional
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Finnish
- French (Canada)
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Hindi
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Slovak
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
- Welsh
All keynotes, SLT connections, and breakouts have the option to enable ASL. The ASL interpreters are reviewed for technical acumen. To learn more about ASL, visit: Web Understanding Success Criterion: Sign Language.
Both live and on-demand video players can be launched to be full screen with Play, Stop and Pause options.
Selecting the live button in the player jumps to the current moment of the video stream content. The scrub bar allows the user to jump to previous moments of time to review previous content at their own pace.
Active chat streams next to the video player can be turned off or chat can be launched into a separate new browser window. This is a great option for individuals that don’t want to participate in the chat stream while the video content is playing.
The following keyboard shortcuts can be used to navigate the video player
Play or Pause: Space bar or Alt + K
Forward: Alt +J
Rewind: Alt +L
Mute and Unmute: M or Ctrl +Alt + M
Launch player full Screen: Alt + enter
Open closed captions (cc): Alt +C
Open American Sign Language stream: Alt +A
Audio
Both live and on-demand video player volume can be adjusted.
All on-demand videos have an English audio description toggle option to allow a user to hear the dialogue of the presentation and additional audio about slides, speaker movement, and visual descriptions. To learn more about audio descriptions, visit: Captions and Audio Descriptions for PC Multimedia | Microsoft Docs
Initial launch of the digital venue with video content is paused instead of automatically playing. Selecting Play will play the streaming video for both live and on demand streams.
Input
The digital venue can be accessed with just a keyboard. No additional input devices (such as a mouse or controller) are required. This can prove useful for individuals who use certain assistive technologies that send keyboard-style input to the browser, or who are simply more comfortable using a keyboard. The site is tested with Chrome and Edge browsers with the latest versions of Windows 11 Narrator and NVDA. To learn more about keyboard accessibility, visit: Keyboard accessibility - Windows apps | Microsoft Docs
Feedback
Have something to share?
There is still much to do as we continue to scale our offerings and we want to know what you think. If you have feedback about disability inclusion and accessibility of this event, please email:
Support & Questions
If you have additional accessibility questions regarding this event, please contact: eventaccess@microsoft.com
To learn more about Microsoft's commitment to accessibility, visit Microsoft.com/Accessibility.
For accessible product support, visit the Disability Answer Desk.
