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At Microsoft, our Mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more

Embracing disability to build a Building inclusive and innovative Disruptive innovations that culture of inclusion and promote products designed for humanity, will change what’s possible for accessibility. inclusive of disability. people with disabilities.

Arran Smith @arrandyslexia arran.smith@sendgroup.co.uk Arran is the UK’s Dyslexia and SEND Consultant at Microsoft . Arran has over 15 years Experience of working in dyslexia and assisted technology sectors. As a severely dyslexic adult , Arran has a great insight in what is Feels like to be dyslexic and how is assisted technology can support everyone’s needs Along with creating independent learners

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83% are likely to gain a 70% of disabilities are 13M disabled people in 6.3M with Dyslexia disability while of invisible the UK working age +£250Bn a year is the UK spending power of the disabled community Over 1 billion people with disabilities

“But where are the people with disabilities”?

Microsoft Accessibility Features At Microsoft, our Mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. With more than 1 billion people in the world with disabilities, there is no limit to what people can achieve when technology reflects the diversity of all those who use it. Here is a list of our accessibility features available on Windows 10 and Office 365. Read on to find out how people at home, school, and work are empowered to achieve more with the built-in accessibility features in Microsoft technologies. If you have product feedback on any of the following features, please visit the Accessibility UserVoice.

Promoting independent learning Accessible technologies help students with disabilities unlock their full potential by addressing a diversity of needs: Learni arning ng Visu sual al Hear arin ing Mobil ilit ity Neur urodiv diver ersit sity Ment ntal l Healt alth Dyslexia • Low vision • Anxiety Deaf Cerebral Palsy Autism • • • • Dysgraphia • Blind • Depression Hard of Muscle ADD/ADHA • • • • Dyscalculia • Colorblind • Hearing Dystrophy Seizure OCD • • Amputation • See Microsoft Accessibility features for every classroom: http tp://a ://aka.ms/A a.ms/Access cessibi ibility litySwa Sway

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Editor – Inclusive design to benefit everyone • Contextual cues help people identify the right choice 1. Synonyms help disambiguate between similar-looking suggestions 2. Read Aloud (of both suggestions & synonyms) aids comprehension • Better suggestions and significantly reduced incidence of “No Suggestions” • Improved compatibility with screen readers and other ATs

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MICROSOFT ACCESSIBILITY AND ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR EDUCATION FORRESTER TOTAL ECONOMIC IMPACT STUDY A commissioned study, Microsoft Accessibility And Assistive Technologies for Education , conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft, February 2019

Key facts and quotes Improved student learning Reduced cost and effort Saved time and more effective 20% improvement in reading $50 IT savings per student/year 97 additional instructional hours and writing per teacher per year “We have found that if we give these “We used to have a network engineer “Special education teachers are tools only to students who needed spending up to 40 hours in the saving time. They can help students them, we had a 20% improvement in summer getting deployment packages without logging into other systems. reading and writing. When we gave it built. There would be another 100 An average teacher will save 1.5 to the whole class, we saw a 30% to hours of testing by the whole assistive hours per week on these types of 40% improvement. More people using technology tech team. We don’t have tasks, hopefully more.” them creates a strong support to do that anymore. This could add up Assistive technology specialist, public K-12 network.” to hundreds of hours depending on the year.” Assistive technology specialist, public K-12 TEI Study interviewee See Microsoft Accessibility features for every classroom: http:/ ://a /aka.m a.ms/A /Accessibi ibili litySwa tySway

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Building a foundation for future success Inclusive education tools give more students personalized access to their curriculum, optimize teacher time, and improve learning outcomes. Students grow their T eachers are more Schools build reputations potential and gain empowered to engage as positive places that promote independence every learner equity and inclusion

Putting technology at the heart of le learning along with accessible tools built-in in for everyone. Creating in independent learners and en ensure that all students achieve their fu full ll potentia ial Arran Smith April 2019

arran.smith@sendgroup.co.uk @arrandyslexia We are partners in learning.