Imagine trying to navigate a virtual space without being able to see the objects in it. If a host tells everyone to move to the outside space and you can’t see where is outside and where is inside in the virtual world, then how do you do that? If the host says, please line up […]
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How Can a Blind Person Use Virtual Reality?
May 5, 2022Accessibility advocate and legally blind gamer offers a deep dive into how people with low vision interact with Virtual Reality (VR), noting that while the technology can be enjoyable, it faces accessibility challenges. He advises VR developers to create inclusive experiences by implementing crucial features such as text size options, menu narration, and full six degrees of tracking, which allows users to physically move closer to interface elements. To ensure your VR application is truly inclusive, meets WCAG/ADA standards, and mitigates legal risk, Equal Entry delivers more than reports; we deliver results, specializing as experts in accessible Virtual Reality (VR) and Extended Reality (XR) technology through services like in-headset UI audits and technical guidance on inclusive design. Contact us today to discuss your specialized VR and other digital accessibility needs.
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 […]
What’s the State of Accessibility in Gaming?
Apr 5, 2022It wasn’t long ago that most developers knew nothing about accessibility. Ian Hamilton talks about the accessibility of gaming and whether the industry is making progress. He also delves into the relationship between difficulty and inaccessibility. How did you get your start in accessibility? It was a three-step process. I started at the BBC in […]
Imagine you’re wearing a virtual reality headset and sitting in a chair or wheelchair. You start playing Job Simulator. In one scene, you need to reach low to open the mini-freezer to take out a burrito. Except, you can’t bend over and reach. Or maybe you can just get to the door handle, but can’t […]
Heather Burns is a program manager at heart, passionately curious, always looking for ways to improve anything she can. After a 20-plus-year career at Microsoft, she’s excited to work in the field she loves — accessibility! Heather provides training, project management, as well as software and hardware testing to improve the ability of individuals with […]
In this talk, Ashley Coffey shares PEAT research on making immersive hybrid workplaces more inclusive and accessible. She reflects on themes explored in an “Inclusive XR in the Workplace” white paper co-authored with the XR Association. Tim Stutts shares his design experience with multi-modal inputs and sensory feedback for augmented reality head-mounted displays, touching briefly […]
How anyone can advocate for virtual reality use in healthcare? How can they go about doing it in simple ways? In this presentation, Heather Bucalos covered how the advocate of VR for healthcare can do the following: Identify uses for VR in different healthcare settings. Find solutions by identifying barriers to use. How to increase […]
Lori Samuels is the Senior Director of Accessibility at NBCUniversal. She leads strategic accessibility programs to institute best practices in inclusive design, provide training for software development teams, drive cultural maturity in disability inclusion, and fortify executive sponsorship. Lori has had career roles in software engineering, engineering management, technical program management, and accessibility consulting — […]
Lainey Feingold is a disability rights lawyer who has worked in the digital accessibility space since 1995. She helped negotiate the first web accessibility agreement in the United States (in 2000) and has worked with the disability community and dozens of private and public sector organizations on their accessibility initiatives since that time. Lainey is […]