Artificial intelligence: a life-changing tool for people with disabilities
21.05.2025
16:15 – 18:15
ID: W1081
de
Description
Artificial intelligence (AI) is life-changing for people with disabilities, for example people who are blind or visually impaired.
AI can be used not only to recognize cash, but also to read texts, recognize images, but also to overview complex documents such as Excel lists and make them accessible in a short, understandable way.
For people with autism or dyslexia, for example, AI can make life easier: it provides support when writing and formulating emails or texts in a Word document.
By adding polite phrases to an email, the text becomes more friendly and personable overall, leading to deeper relationships with colleagues and customers.
In products such as Word, PowerPoint and Excel, it’s not just people with neurodiversity who struggle greatly with the fear of the blank page. Using AI can help with creating an initial draft that you then only need to review.
Creating meeting summaries with transcription, creating accessible PowerPoint slides and much more is also possible with the influence of AI.
Speaker
Franziska Sgoff, Anna Wannhoff, Jan-Malte Jeddeloh Franziska Sgoff is the first employee at Microsoft Germany to be blind from birth. She uses AI on a daily basis and can share her first-hand experience of working with it. Anna Wannhoff was dependent on a wheelchair as a child and is passionate about advising Microsoft customers on M365 Copilot and accessibility issues. Together with Franziska, she delivers full-day workshops for enterprise customers to give an overview of our accessibility features. Jan-Malte Jeddeloh is also a Microsoft colleague who, together with Anna and Franziska, has already trained several customers on the subject of accessibility. Like Anna, he is also responsible for training customers in the M365 environment.
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