Microsoft plans to focus even more on accessibility in 2019
(Windows Phone Central)

Microsoft`s CEO Satya Nadella is on a mission to make all the company`s products and services accessible to everyone. If it seems like Microsoft`s accessibility efforts are getting almost as much attention as its cloud, Windows and productivity businesses, you`re not mistaken. Since becoming the company`s CEO, Satya Nadella has made `inclusive design` a core part of the company`s business model. It is almost impossible to see a major Microsoft event or hear a significant Microsoft announcement without hearing how accessibility is woven in. Nadella acknowledged that historically companies, including Microsoft, would build products and address an accessibility `checklist` after the fact. This post-design focus on assistive technologies was limiting because it resulted in narrowly designing products for able-bodied people while excluding millions of others with disabilities....