Mainstage Opening Session

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Nuts and bolts update: Microsoft launches a Voice Preservation dashboard that banks voices to OneDrive and ships Custom Voice integrations, supporting about 2,000 preserved voices per year; Narrator adds HID Braille support, 150+ bug fixes and Copilot image descriptions while 3.5 million people copy MathML (≈160 million equations/month); Teams adds voice tethering for signer attribution; GitHub ships an open‑source Accessibility Scanner that files issues and assigns Copilot to open PR fixes; and a free AI Skills Navigator (38M trained in 2025) and Skills Fest roll out.

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1. 0:00Ability Summit 2026 opens
2. 2:34Jenny Lay-Flurrie leadership video
3. 3:42Jenny Lay-Flurrie opens summit
4. 16:09Neil Barnett takes stage
5. 32:10AI and communication with Team Gleason
6. 45:37AI Skills Navigator intro
7. 56:47M365 accessibility innovations
8. 1:00:00Teams screen reader updates
9. 1:19:03GitHub accessibility and AI
10. 1:31:14Inclusive sports fan engagement
11. 1:57:20Xbox Adaptive Controller updates
12. 2:01:45Closing remarks

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