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In the news | The Economic Times
AI: the access key to inclusion?
Microsoft Research India plans to expand its Shiksha Copilot, aimed at improving learning outcomes with engaging content, with multimodal, multilingual and multi-device dimensions to help teachers with vision impairments create lesson plans. “The possibilities for AI to positively impact accessibility…
In the news | The AI Blog
Shrinking the ‘data desert’: Inside efforts to make AI systems more inclusive of people with disabilities
Saqib Shaikh says people who are blind, like himself, typically develop highly organized routines to keep track of their things — putting keys, wallets, canes and other essentials in the same places each time. But sometimes life gets messy: A…

Awards | Microsoft reporter
Microsoft’s Cecily Morrison awarded MBE for services to inclusive design
Cecily Morrison, a principal researcher at Microsoft’s Research Lab in Cambridge, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. The 39-year-old, who is currently working on a project that uses technology to help people with low vision understand who’s around them, has been recognised…