Microsoft Treats Accessibility Like Security And Privacy

So I just had a sort of follow-up question on the fact that this is the third CAO role.

And that says something about not just the commitment of the individuals in the accessibility team and the recognition, but actually the commitment of the organization as a whole and the recognition that this is something that is strategic.

Because...

I think there are CAOs out there and there are accessibility leaders, but they don't necessarily have the same kind of level of authority within organizations as the role at Microsoft.

And why do you think that Microsoft recognized the strategic importance and continued to recognize that? Because companies can recognize it and then it can drop

off with changes of leadership.

And that hasn't happened.

If you just look at Microsoft's mission statement to empower every person in the organization to achieve more like that, like accessibility doesn't need its own mission statement.

The company's mission statement is our mission statement.

And I think Satya and the entire

senior leadership team, they talk about accessibility.

And so it is foundational to how we operate as a company.

And so it's just built into the DNA.

And I think, you know, having that as the lighthouse example of just why accessibility is just woven in across the company, it really, it's not the job of, just myself or my team or accessibility engineers at Microsoft, it's really everyone's job at Microsoft.

And that's the way we think about it.

All 200,000 plus employees are focused on accessibility and that's part of the expectation of their job.

And so, yeah, it is a privilege and it's great that we continue to have that focus on accessibility, just like we do on privacy and security and other elements like that.

So, Anil, you have taken the role of leading accessibility at Microsoft.

You know the company really well, so you have been there for quite some time.

Microsoft has offices in different locations around the world.

People at Microsoft often attend events, conferences everywhere where they communicate about what the company is doing.

How...

Do we make sure that the message goes beyond the head office? I know that it's reaching people everywhere around the world at Microsoft.

But how do you keep that going and consistent over time to make sure that there's always new leaders coming and going? And do you make sure that the commitment stays? Yeah.

outside of Redmond across the world is I think your question.