Posted by: kurtsh | April 7, 2025

INFO: Microsoft Accessibility & WCAG conformance

Microsoft has specific documentation about the scope of our adherence to WCAG (2.1 & beyond) documented here.  Microsoft audits how our products and services support the recognized the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) & publishes the results in our conformance reports.  Some products are even more explicit.  For example:

  • The Power BI Service has an entire section on building accessible reports.  Power BI Paginated Reports is explicitly documented online.
    The conformance report is available here.  There are separate reports for Power BI Desktop, Power BI for Android, Power BI for iOS, etc.
  • Microsoft Forms’ conformance report is available here.

For further information:

  • Consumer Disability Answer Desk:  Disability Answer Desk provides product support for our customers with disabilities, including Microsoft Office, Windows, and Xbox.
    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Accessibility/disability-answer-desk
  • Enterprise Disability Answer Desk:  The enterprise Disability Answer Desk is a support resource for organizations that have questions about the accessibility of Microsoft products and product conformance with accessibility standards. The support team can help resolve issues relating to assistive technology, as well as find conformance documentation.
    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/enterprise-answer-desk?culture=en-us&country=us
  • Ask Microsoft Accessibility: The Ask Microsoft Accessibility bot is a tool that helps users find information about the accessibility of Microsoft products and services. It uses only the publicly available information on microsoft.com as a reference and does not answer general accessibility questions or questions about code.
    https://askma.microsoft.com/

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