Social networking and recruiting platform hub LinkedIn is about to get a significant accessibility upgrade thanks to its ties with Microsoft.
In honor of Dyslexia Awareness Month and National Disability Employment Awareness Month, LinkedIn users can now access Microsoft’s Immersive Reader to make digesting content easier.
Since many websites, including LinkedIn, are flooded with distractions like ads and other images, the addition of Immersive Reader is big news for all LinkedIn users.
LinkedIn is becoming less distracting for some
According to a report from Engadgetall articles and newsletters will have an Immersive Reader icon, bringing a range of accessibility tools to make processing long and complex pages easier.
One of the features is a text to speech tool that LinkedIn promises can understand the difference between words that are spelled the same, allowing it to be pronounced and pronounced accurately.
Another feature that will become available for those who prefer to avoid distractions is Content Isolation, which will pick out the relevant text and display it on a plain background. Users have control over things like colors, fonts, and sizes to ensure the text meets their needs.
The technology is nothing new and is already used in a range of other Microsoft services and more broadly, such as Safari’s Reader View, but it appears to be the first of its kind to be built directly into a social media site.
While it may not have the same user base as Facebook and X, LinkedIn remains a popular product for Microsoft and one that is often the subject of a good update or two. Recently, the company started integrating generative AI into LinkedIn, making it the first social media platform to offer users this kind of assistance.