Microsoft is enhancing some of the accessibility features in Windows 8 to make the new OS easier for people with disabilities, CNET reports. Certain “assistive technologies” have long been a part of Windows. The built-in Narrator can read text aloud to people who are blind. The Magnifier can zoom in to display content for people who have trouble seeing. Speech recognition allows people who are unable to type to navigate via voice. But as described in the latest Building Windows 8 blog by Jennifer Norberg, a senior program manager on Microsoft’s Human Interaction Platform team, Windows 8 is taking those features a few steps further…
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