Accessibility Matters: Designing Inclusive Digital Workplaces

Get the session slides from the 2026 Microsoft 365 Community Conference

Accessibility is more than a compliance requirement. It is a meaningful way to create digital workplaces that work better for everyone.

At the 2026 Microsoft 365 Community Conference in Orlando, Richard Plantt, Microsoft MVP and Consultant at 2toLead, presented Accessibility Matters: Designing Inclusive Digital Workplaces, a practical session focused on helping organizations create more accessible, inclusive, and future-ready SharePoint experiences.

Complete the form to access the session slides and explore practical guidance you can use to improve accessibility across your intranet, SharePoint sites, and Microsoft 365 experiences.

About the session

Many organizations want to create inclusive digital workplaces, but accessibility can feel overwhelming, technical, or treated as something to address only after a problem appears.

This session takes a more practical approach.

Instead of treating accessibility as a checklist, we explored how inclusive design can become a strategic advantage. From SharePoint content and page design to cognitive load, screen reader support, governance, and AI-powered enhancements, this session focused on the choices teams can make every day to improve the employee experience.

These slides are designed to help you rethink accessibility as part of how your organization communicates, collaborates, and supports people at work.

What you’ll find in the slides

When you access the resource, you’ll get practical ideas and examples covering:

• How accessibility supports a stronger, more inclusive digital workplace
• Common barriers people experience in SharePoint and Microsoft 365
• Practical ways to improve content structure, readability, navigation, and page design
• Tips for supporting screen readers, keyboard navigation, and cognitive accessibility
• How to reduce friction for employees with different needs, preferences, and working styles
• Ways Copilot and AI-enhanced experiences can support accessibility and content improvement
• Considerations for WCAG and AODA alignment
• A roadmap for making accessibility part of your digital workplace culture

Who this resource is for

This resource is especially useful for:

• Intranet owners and SharePoint site owners
• Internal communications teams
• Employee experience leaders
• Microsoft 365 administrators
• UX, design, and content teams
• Accessibility champions
• Digital workplace teams responsible for governance, adoption, or content quality

Whether you are just getting started with accessibility or looking to improve the maturity of your digital workplace, these slides will give you practical direction and useful talking points to bring back to your team.

Why accessibility matters now

The modern workplace depends on digital experiences. Employees use intranets, collaboration spaces, knowledge hubs, forms, pages, documents, and AI-assisted tools every day.

When those experiences are difficult to use, poorly structured, or inaccessible, people are left out.

Accessible design helps create better experiences for everyone. It improves clarity, reduces confusion, supports different ways of working, and helps employees find, understand, and act on information more confidently.

Accessibility is not just about meeting standards. It is about creating a workplace where more people can participate fully.

Access the session slides

If you attended the session, this resource is a helpful way to revisit the key ideas and share them with your team.

If you were not able to attend, the slides will give you a strong starting point for understanding how accessibility, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, and Copilot can work together to support a more inclusive digital workplace.

Complete the form to get access to the slides.