Designing for Bodies: Accessibility in Virtual Reality

Aug 24, 2022

Designing For Bodies: Accessibility in Virtual Reality is about the challenges developers and designers face in building accessible XR experiences when the nature of XR is an embodied experience, and many standard methods of interaction and interface require complex bodily movements. As the VRTogether team came to understand the core design pillars of their platform, […]

The First Steps to Breaking into Digital Accessibility Careers

Aug 24, 2022

Beginning a career focused on digital accessibility can be intimidating as technologists new to this professional field struggle to define the specific role that aligns with their skills and interests. Perusing job ads can certainly shed some light on the variety of accessibility professions that exist. For example, in software development, there are many product […]

Virtual Accessibility Mapping, Awareness Raising, and Real-World Advocacy

Aug 11, 2022

Encounters with barriers to built environments, education, employment, entertainment, and healthcare in virtual reality (VR) can shape our understanding of issues faced by diverse demographics in the real world. In this presentation, Mark Bookman discusses how he uses VR in his classes at the University of Tokyo to help raise awareness about otherwise invisible obstacles […]

Does Your Website Have Any of These 10 Most-Cited Accessibility Issues?

Apr 12, 2022

Equal Entry audits hundreds of web pages, from retail shopping sites to news aggregators to custom web apps that solve custom problems. We manually navigate your sites with a keyboard and screen readers, we interact with every one of your controls, and we use automated tools where useful. Our accessibility consultants logged over 7,500 instances […]