Microsoft has more insight about the improvements that the accessibility of Windows 8 for other visually impaired people need to increase. The narrator would have greatly improved while the magnifying glass with touch screens can handle.
In a blogposting on the Building Windows 8 blog gives Microsoft insight into the improvements in the accessibility options has been implemented. Using the accessibility tools, among other things, the blind, visually impaired and deaf, the operating system still operate.
One of the challenges was, according to the Windows developers to the Metro gui, which has been developed for touch-screen devices such as tablets, available through the accessibility tools. So is under the magnifying glass, an important tool for the visually impaired. In the Metro applications with the virtual microscope via the touchscreen to zoom in and out with a frame around the selected content is displayed. The magnifier works but only in fullscreen mode.
Microsoft has to own also say the speech synthesizer of an update. So would the reaction of the Narrator function has been improved and promises to Microsoft more languages and voices to support. In addition, the speech synthesizer also handle gui components in the Metro interface will be offered.
Developers of these applications want to build for the Metro gui of Windows 8, have Microsoft the necessary documentation and tools received should ensure that Metro apps can still be accessed. In addition, look at Microsoft during the approval process for the Windows Store or the submitted software to the minimum toegankelijkheidseisen meets.