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These articles and essays include inspiring features on people and organizations realizing potential through the use of accessible technology, and essays by key Microsoft employees, partners, and associates who work to make computers more accessible.
Simple Loop Helps Special Needs Kids Control Their Mice
Microsoft employee Mike LaManna was surprised to find few adaptive solutions for special needs children who had trouble using computer mice. Using creativity, trial and error, and some helpful coworkers, LaManna set out to change that.
(April 2009)
Microsoft Announces European Grants Worth 5 Million Euro to Fuel Jobs and Growth in Economic Downturn
Microsoft Corp today announced it will invest an additional 5 million euro in cash and software in non-governmental organizations (NGO) that run community skills training projects in 30 countries across Europe. This investment is part of Microsoft's long-term commitment to foster skills and drive growth through creating employability opportunities for young unemployed, seniors, and people with disabilities. (December 2008)
Inclusive Innovation Showroom Opens to Demonstrate Accessibility
A new Inclusive Innovation Showroom, designed to
demonstrate how accessibility features in Microsoft products and assistive
technology solutions developed by Microsoft partners can make it easier for
anyone to see, hear, and use a computer at work or at home, has opened on the Microsoft Redmond campus. (October 2008)
World of Education Opened to Student with Visual and Motor Sensory Impairment
When 14-year-old student, Kassandra Soares of Montreal, Canada, needed a special software solution to open up her educational opportunities, a team from Microsoft and its partners joined forces with teachers to develop it for her. (August 2008)
Retired Computer Analyst with Parkinson's Discovers Accessibility Features Provide Greater Accuracy and Control
With the help of an assistive technology specialist at the Simon Technology Center, Barbara discovered accessibility features in Microsoft Windows that make it easier for her to use her computer. (July 2008)
Affordable Assistive Technology Solutions
Through years of experience, we know that assistive technology improves quality of life, increases independence and enhances safety. Unfortunately, finding funding for this technology can be an obstacle—most insurance companies don't identify assistive technology as "medically necessary"...
(April 2008)
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