Tag: Microsoft
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![Menus [A to Z a11y]](https://hartofthemidlands.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/A2ZPP-M-Menus.png)
Welcome, honoured guest, to the midway point in the A to Z Accessibility: Power Platform Edition. Today we are looking at Menus. I’m talking hamburgers, stacks, waffles, and more. Are you drooling like Homer Simpson yet?
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![Laying it all out [A to Z a11y]](https://hartofthemidlands.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/A2ZPP-L-Laying-it-all-out.png)
Big Box, Little Box, Cardboard Box What’s in the Box? I just had to get that reference in there somehow! It is quite relevant here though. In this A to Z a11y post we look at Layout Containers. How they can be an aid, or a hinderance, to accessibility. We also look at how laying…
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![Keyboard Warriors [A to Z a11y]](https://hartofthemidlands.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/A2ZPP-K-Keyboard-Warriors.png)
A long time ago… When I was a lad a mouse was something that went “squeak” and you definitely didn’t want on your desk. Keyboard Warriors were people who could type, code, and make computers bend to their every whim. Not the cowardly so-called keyboard warriors of today who spew bile, but true magicians. OK,…
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![Jump! [A to Z a11y]](https://hartofthemidlands.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/A2ZPP-J-JUMP.png)
Epic riffs and dancing Prime Ministers? Nope… Welcome to the J of the A to Z Accessibility: Power Platform Edition, and this one is all about Jump! Those who enjoy music or Christmas romantic comedies may be hearing epic riffs or picturing Hugh Grant dancing through No.10 Downing Street. If you are more O/G about…
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Back in late September, Microsoft announced the launch of the Microsoft Surface Adaptive Kit. Of course, I made sure I had ordered one for release day! Read on for my thoughts after a few weeks of use.
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Introduction – What lies ahead I have been talking about Accessibility for a while now, and often link this to DELIVERY rather than BUILD. In this post, “Power Apps, Accessibility, and WCAG”, I’m going to bring all this together. I’m also going to tie it in to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) around colour…
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Two things happened recently that really made me realise that we need to ensure that there is Accessibility at the door. What do I mean by that, and how do we rectify it? I’m glad you asked! A licence to nothing The first incident was when installing Printer Drivers on my PC. Printers are the…
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What does day-to-day accessibility look like? Join Ashley Graham-Brown as they share about their life in “A dyslexic and dyspraxic’s guide to accessibility” (from Scottish Summit 2021)
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It’s easy to talk about what a more inclusive workplace should be, but how do we go about creating such a place? At Scottish Summit 2021 Zoe Wilson delivered a great session on this very subject! Zoe is a passionate advocate for Accessibility in the workplace, and in everyday life. Having her speak about this…
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The Accessibility track at Scottish Summit 2021 covered so many topics throughout the day. The session “Programming for Accessibility” by Rory Preddy was an amazing look at both living with accessibility requirements, and how to include accessibility in our thinking when programming applications. Rory was introduced to me via Hector Minto when we were having…
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Continuing my look at the Scottish Summit 2021 Accessibility track. One of the standout sessions was the “Instant Accessibility using a Theming Template” in Power Apps talk by Sancho Harker. I first came across Sancho when he delivered a talk at Microsoft Ignite The Tour London in 2020 (just before lockdown). Like this one from…
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For Microsoft, a core part of how accessibility is being managed throughout their DNA is by treating Accessibility as an actual project goal and requirement. Watch Microsoft Accessibility Evangelist Hector Minto from Scottish Summit 2021 as he talks about Digital Inclusion and Accessibility as a Deliverable.
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I started my self-learning journey into the world of Accessibility in the middle of 2020. If I’m completely honest I was very naive and did not understand what was behind that door. I soon came to realise that there is so much to learn, but so many teachers I can learn from. Accessibility is a…
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When was the last time you were asked to make a project accessible? OK how accessible was the last event you attended, or app that you built, or blog post you read? Do you make your #Hashtags screen reader friendly? Accessibility is something that people are aware of, yet also massively unaware of – and…
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We recently had an issue where all of our users found themselves greeted with a white screen when they were trying to use the Microsoft Dynamics 365 App for Outlook…. Thankfully Lucy Muscat knew the fix!
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