Accessibility
The latest Accessibility coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Windows 12 Vision: Agentic OS That Sees, Hears, and Collaborates via Voice and Screen Awareness
Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s head of Windows, has openly described the next major platform evolution as an ambient, multimodal, and agentic operating system that redefines how we interact with PCs....
Outlook Mobile Send Button May Shift to Header Amid Wider UI Overhaul, But Key Roadmap ID Remains Unconfirmed
Reports that Microsoft plans to relocate the Send button in Outlook mobile from the bottom compose toolbar to the top header in September 2025 have ignited conversation among enterprise...
Microsoft Sharpens On-Device AI for AMD Copilot+ PCs with KB5065505 Update
Microsoft has begun automatically deploying a new component update, KB5065505, that delivers version 1.2507.797.0 of its Phi Silica on-device AI model to AMD-powered Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11...
Microsoft Kills Lens Scanner in December, Stranding OneNote and Accessibility Workflows
Microsoft will disable new scans in its popular Lens mobile app on December 15, 2025, a move that severs direct exports to OneNote, Word, and PowerPoint and removes integrated Immersive Reader...
Copilot 3D: Microsoft's AI Turns Photos Into 3D Models, With Some Bizarre Animal Results
Microsoft quietly slipped a surprising new feature into Copilot Labs: Copilot 3D, an experimental tool that turns any JPG or PNG image into a textured, downloadable 3D model in seconds. But as early...
Microsoft PowerToys Could Soon Flash a Green Halo on Your Screen Every Time You Copy Text
Copying text from a terminal window on Windows can be a gamble—you press Ctrl+C or right-click, but sometimes nothing lands on the clipboard, leaving you to paste stale or empty content into your...
Windows' Hidden Gem: Control Your Cursor Entirely From the Numpad with Mouse Keys
Mouse Keys has been baked into Windows since the days of Windows 7, yet it remains one of the most underutilized accessibility tools in the operating system. This feature transforms the numeric...
Microsoft Lens Retires Dec 15: Copilot Scanner Misses OneNote, Immersive Reader
Microsoft Lens will stop accepting new scans on December 15, 2025, and the mobile scanning app that tens of millions of users have relied on for nearly a decade will vanish from app stores a month...
Microsoft Lens Retires This Year: How to Move Scanning to Copilot Without Losing Key Features
Microsoft is officially retiring its long-standing Microsoft Lens mobile scanning app, folding its key capture features into the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in a phased shutdown that begins September...
Microsoft Moves Additional Clocks and Keyboard Settings to Windows 11 Settings in New Dev Build
Microsoft has quietly migrated another set of legacy Control Panel features into the modern Settings app with Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5742, released to the Dev Channel on March 6,...
Goodbye Microsoft Lens: Copilot Takes Over Scanning as Retirement Deadlines Loom
Microsoft Lens, the free mobile scanning app that has helped millions of users digitize documents, whiteboards, and receipts for over a decade, is officially being retired. The company confirmed a...
Copilot 3D Hands-On: Microsoft’s AI Turns Images into 3D Models with Surprising (and Awkward) Results
In a low-key move alongside the splashy GPT-5 upgrade for Copilot, Microsoft quietly launched Copilot 3D into its Copilot Labs. The experiment: take a single 2D image—a JPG or PNG under 10 MB—and...