Microsoft accessibility features

Office apps work seamlessly with screen readers and keyboards on most devices. Step-by-step guidance is available per application to help you get started.

Resize icons, adjust text size and color, customize the mouse cursor, and more—our display and vision settings make it easy to personalize your viewing experience.

The screen-reading app, Narrator, offers simplified navigation and intelligent image description, making it easy to explore a page without missing a thing on the screen.

A MailTip in Outlook on the web to inform coworkers of your preference for accessible content. This prompt reminds them to run Accessibility Checker before sending an email to you and fix any issues that might make the content difficult for people with disabilities to consume.

Enlarge words and images with Magnifier. And with the customized settings you can use it on all or part of the screen—whatever way suits you best.

Get the most out of Windows 10 using just your keyboard. With only a few keystrokes, you can quickly navigate Windows and enable accessibility settings.

Make your mouse as big or small as you want or make it black if that's best for you. Windows 10 offers many ways to customize your mouse and cursor size.

Increase the color contrast of text and images on your screen, making them easier to identify. Each high contrast theme can be customized to suit your needs and tastes.

Seeing AI brings together the power of the cloud and AI to deliver an intelligent app that helps you navigate your day with the help of narration describing people, text, and objects.

With just a look or touch, you can quickly sign in to your Windows device using facial recognition or a fingerprint—no password needed. Commonly used accessibility settings are also available from the sign-in screen.

Whether you are sensitive to light or just work long hours in front of a screen, you can use the new Dark themes and Contrast themes in Windows 11 to reduce screen brightness and increase contrast—without sacrificing aesthetics.

Narrator provides simplified navigation and audio descriptions so you can easily interact with everything on your screen with your keyboard or preferred Braille device. So lean back and listen to the latest news or get to work on your email—no screen required.

Create multimedia presentations that are engaging and accessible with PowerPoint and Sway that enable you to add captions for embedded videos.

Use closed captions to read the words that are spoken in movies and television shows. And with Windows 10, you can adjust the color, size, and background transparency to fit your specific needs.

Adjust notifications to make them appear on your screen longer. If you have difficulty seeing or hearing—or just prefer a longer alert—you can increase the alert display time up to five minutes.

If you prefer visual notifications over sounds, the Ease of Access Center offers text or visual alternatives.

Get help constructing sentences with text suggestions. Word suggestions appear, and can be inserted, as you type. It's a great feature for English language learners—and anyone who would like a little help with their writing.

Windows 10 makes it easy to minimize distractions by reducing animations and turning off background images. You can also clean up taskbar clutter, simplify the start menu, and quiet notifications.

Change your taskbar location, rearrange buttons, and unlock other settings to make your taskbar best suit your needs. You can also pin and group your favorite apps or unpin what you don't need. Simply drag and drop apps from the app list and pin them to the start menu as tiles.

Fluent Sitka Small and Fluent Calibri are fonts that reduce visual crowding and make reading easier for people with dyslexia.

Sustain attention with Learning Tools settings such as Immersive Reader that let you have words read aloud with simultaneous highlighting. You can also reduce focus to a few lines, adjust page colors, and increase spacing between lines, letters, and words.

Easily store and access your files from all your devices with OneDrive. Have edits to your Office files automatically saved as you are working. Quickly find files, photos, and documents from personalized search results powered by the intelligence of the Microsoft Graph.

Office Lens helps you transform text on a printed page into searchable and editable digital content. It includes the ability to have captured content exported to Office apps, and on iOS devices—read aloud with Immersive Reader.

Editor provides advanced proofing and editing service. Using machine learning and natural language processing, mixed with input from our own team of linguists, Editor makes suggestions to help you improve your writing.

Researcher helps you find and incorporate reliable sources and content. Search the internet within your Word document, explore material related to your topic, and add it with its properly-formatted citation—all in one action.

PowerPoint Designer improves your slides by automatically generating design ideas that you can choose from. While you're putting content on a slide, Designer works in the background to match that content to professionally designed layouts.

As you speak, the add-in powered by the Microsoft Translator live feature allows you to display subtitles directly on your PowerPoint presentation in any one of more than 60 supported text languages.

Convert your speech to text with Dictate in Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook for PCs. Also available with the Dictate add-in for Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook for PCs which supports dictation in 20+ languages and real-time translation to 60+ languages.

Use Reading view to clear distracting content from web pages, so you can stay focused. And with Learning Tools in Microsoft Edge you can have documents read aloud to you.

Focus assist blocks alerts and notifications, so you can get things done without distractions. Don’t worry, if there are some people you don’t want to ignore, you can add them to a special list. And when you’ve finish focusing, you'll get a summary of what you missed.

The On-Screen Keyboard (OSK) allows you to type using a mouse or other pointing device, like a trackball or joystick. Word completion and word prediction also help you choose the best next word if you have a learning disability or cognitive impairment.

The Windows 10 screen-reading app, Narrator, helps you navigate with confidence. With features like simplified navigation and intelligent image description, you won’t be missing anything on the screen.

Magnifier lets you enlarge your screen so you can see words and images better. With a few different customization settings, you can use Magnifier on all or part of the screen, in whatever way suits you best.

Windows 10 helps students and educators do great things.

Intelligence is infused in the Office apps to help you do more in fewer steps. Get automated design recommendations in seconds after you add an image in PowerPoint with Designer. Get started quickly with access to reliable sources and citable content without leaving Word with Researcher.

The On-Screen Keyboard (OSK) allows you to type with a pointing device, such as a mouse, trackball or joystick. And for those with mobility limitations, learning disabilities, or cognitive impairment, the word completion and word prediction tools can be helpful.

Accessibility settings such as Sticky Keys and Filter Keys are available on the screen where you sign in to your computer. And with Windows Hello you can quickly and securely sign in with just a look or touch (requires specialized hardware).

Windows 10 gives you a number of options for making your mouse and keyboard easier to use. Change the shape and color of the mouse pointer, or use Mouse Keys to move the mouse pointer with the numeric keypad. If you have trouble pressing two keys at the same time, Sticky Keys lets you type commands one key at a time.

Whether you're composing a document, an email, or surfing the web, dictation will convert your speech to text—so you can produce words without a keyboard. And with Windows Speech Recognition you can control your PC by voice alone.

Whether you're composing a document, an email, or surfing the web, Windows voice typing will convert your speech to text—and with the power of AI, it will even take care of the punctuation!

Change the look and feel of your Office apps on PCs by changing the Office Theme. In Office 2016 you can choose from Colorful, Black, Dark Gray, and White themes.

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