News from #Microsoft:

More logical navigation through Word documents for screen readers

There is a new setting (now in Office 365) which "allows you to use the up and down arrow keys to move through all the content in your document based on the logical reading order." - this will be a big improvement for situations including:
- Multi-column pages
- Text wrapped around images
- multi-page view

Read more at: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/more-logical-navigation-through-word-documents-for-screen-readers/4471937

#News #NVDA #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Keyboard

A11yJSON: A standard to describe the accessibility of the physical world

https://sozialhelden.github.io/a11yjson/

#HackerNews

Over 32,000 medieval manuscripts transcribed in four months using AI

Medievalists can now access automated transcriptions of 32,763 digitised medieval manuscripts, produced in just four months as part of a project called CoMMA—a large-scale corpus designed to make manuscript texts searchable and analysable at a scale that would be impossible to tackle by hand.

https://www.medievalists.net/2026/01/32000-medieval-manuscripts-transcribed-using-ai/

Original paper:
https://inria.hal.science/hal-05299220

The CoMMA website:
https://comma.inria.fr/homepage

#books #old_manuscripts

Episodio 32 · “Aprender a pensar: robótica y pensamiento algorítmico en la educación de niños ciegos”.

Nuevo episodio de Gafotas, cegatos y sus aparatos con Carlos Mayo (ONCE) y José Enrique Fernández del Campo. Programación, robótica accesible, pensamiento algorítmico y educación inclusiva.

https://cegatos.es/gca/#ep32

Vulnerabilidad en token de identidad de Azure permite compromiso total en Windows Admin Center

https://blog.elhacker.net/2026/01/vulnerabilidad-en-token-de-identidad-de.html

La policía advierte a unos padres que acaban de descubrir que su hijo de 15 años es un peligroso hacker: "Tienen que vigilarlo de cerca, si no, pagarán un alto precio"

https://blog.elhacker.net/2026/01/la-policia-advierte-unos-padres-que.html

Let’s Encrypt lanza certificados TLS basados en IP de 6 días

https://blog.elhacker.net/2026/01/lets-encrypt-lanza-certificados-tls.html