Accessibility (Teams)

Meet

Access meetings and participate from anywhere with Teams by using the desktop app, the mobile app, or through your web browser.

• Live closed captioning for meetings (US English only)
• Use CART captions in a Microsoft Teams meeting (human generated captions)
• Blur background or use a background image
• Pin a meeting participant's video
• Dedicated chats for each meeting
• Raise your hand in a Teams meeting
• Reduce background noise in Teams meetings
• Add someone, like a coworker or interpreter, to a call

Chat

Communicate effectively with everyone regardless of language, cognitive needs, or visual capabilities.

• Limit distractions with Do Not Disturb mode
• Minimize communication barriers with language translation
• Customize the reading and viewing experience for different visual and cognitive needs
• Send audio messages on Microsoft Teams mobile and use Windows dictation on Microsoft Teams desktop

Collaborate

Enable collaboration for everyone by adapting to different learning paces, motor skills, and communication preferences. 

• Have documents read aloud and broken down by syllables with Immersive Reader
• Ensure Microsoft Office content is easy for all people to read and edit
• Pin chats, channels, apps, and documents 

More features that help us all do our best work

• Mute channels
• Manage notifications and set your status
• Navigate with a keyboard
• Dark, light, and high contrast theme
• Zoom in and out of Teams
• Use text telephone (TTY)
• Search for messages and more