Event details
Join the Windows Accessibility team at Microsoft to explore how Narrator, the built-in screen reader in Windows, is evolving to better support your productivity. We’ve been listening to community feedback and have made meaningful improvements that we’d love to share with you.
What you'll take away:
- Create and collaborate on documents with confidence: Improvements in Narrator that make reading, navigating, and collaborating on documents smoother and more predictable on Microsoft Word.
- Get through your inbox and meetings with ease. Reduce friction when triaging email, reading messages, and staying connected with your team using Outlook and Microsoft Teams.
- Do more with Narrator itself: Image descriptions, new natural voices, ability to personalize announcements, speech recap to review or copy anything Narrator has said, screen curtain for privacy in public spaces, and braille viewer for educators and trainers -- all designed to make your everyday experience smoother and more flexible.
- Ask the team anything: A live Q&A with the engineers and PMs behind these features. Bring your workflows, pain points, and ideas.
Who should attend?
Screen reader users, assistive technology trainers, and accessibility advocates. If that sounds like you, we would love to have you join us — and you can also sign up to stay connected for future webinars and co-creation opportunities here: https://aka.ms/contactwindowsaccessibility
How do I participate?
Registration is not required. Add this event to your calendar and select Attend to receive reminders. Post your questions in advance, or any time during the live broadcast.
14 Comments
- Heather_Poulsen
Community Manager
Thanks to everyone who joined live--and welcome to those tuning in on demand. Q&A is still open here in the comments so please continue to post any questions or feedback you may have. You can also contact the team at https://aka.ms/ContactWindowsAccessibility.
- AshutoshSinghal009Copper Contributor
I have both English and Hindi but it does not work neither on YouTube nor on Microsoft Edge if both languages come at the same time.
- KellLFordOccasional Reader
What is the status of Narrator working well with Live Captions? When I try that combination, trying to read the live caption text with Narrator is a messy and confusing experience. The text is not easily to navigate and review as just one example.
- KellLFordOccasional Reader
Please comment on the differences between using the desktop versions of Word and the other Office apps and the online versions. Has anything improved with the web versions?
- bmustill-roseOccasional Reader
Can the team talk about how you're going to strike a balance between improving Narrator and making sure that the third party screen reader market on Windows doesn't become unsustainable? E.G. as Narrator improves, the harder it becomes for third party screen readers to exist. Thanks.
- AshutoshSinghal009Copper Contributor
Kindly give option to use other sytheinsisers with Narrator.
- AshutoshSinghal009Copper Contributor
Kindly increase speed and response of Microsoft Narrator TTS including Natural voices. We want response like Espeak engin provide.
- AshutoshSinghal009Copper Contributor
Kindly give authomatic language switch in Microsoft Narrator so it can read multiple language at the same time like English India and Hindi language at the same time.
- Skipper82Occasional Reader
Can you provide updates on Braille support for Narrator? In the past, users have had trouble connecting Braille displays due to driver compatibility issues. Has this been resolved? I would like to use my Braille displays with Narrator and other screen readers and connect and disconnect between different screen readers on the fly. Is this possible?
- Heather_Poulsen
Community Manager
Welcome to today's session on Narrator. Have questions or feedback? Please post your thoughts here in the comments!