The talk highlighted learnings about how to do research with people with facial palsy and the challenges of adapting the headset and creating experiences for them. Marg Laing and Claire Baert covered how user research was brought into the product team and showed examples of how user-centered design techniques were employed. They discussed their collaboration […]
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On July 13, 2021, Accessibility New York City hosted a Meetup entitled “I Heart CC: Why and How to Caption Videos Folks Love.” With more captioning DIY apps coming out and captioning built-in apps like Instagram and Tik Tok, there are a lot of bad captions out there. Adding captions to videos is only half […]
Captions in cross-reality (XR) provide an opportunity for participants with language barriers or hearing and speaking differences to communicate across. This talk covered the captions design and implementation (so far) in AltspaceVR from the perspective of one of the engineers who worked on it. In addition, this talk explores how engineering and design teams might […]
On June 1, 2021, Accessibility New York City hosted a Meetup entitled “Accessibility Testing with People with Disabilities: Tips and tricks from the experts at Fable.” Sam Proulx, an Accessibility Evangelist at Fable, talked about why testing with people with disabilities is so important and described what Fable is doing in order to make this […]
Hubs works towards the Mozilla mission of keeping the internet open and accessible to all by providing an ecosystem for communities, organizers, educators, artists, and developers to easily build and deploy innovative web content in a social, open manner. The Mozilla Hubs team highly values the accessibility community’s voice in helping to make Mozilla Hubs […]
Roland Dubois is the Product Design Manager and UX Lead at Shop-Ware, XR Accessibility at Virtuleap, publisher of the WebXRNews.com Newsletter, and creator of GRAVR — a globally recognized avatar for VR on the web. How did you get your start in accessibility? Early in my career as a designer and coder, I used many […]
On April 27, 2021, Accessibility New York City hosted a Meetup entitled “Accessing Innovation.” Presenter Cat Noone — a product designer, co-founder, and CEO of Stark — the startup making the world’s software accessible, and in turn compliant, by providing integrated tools that live inside the software designers and developers know and love. Her focus […]
Q&A With Matt May, Head of Inclusive Design, Adobe
Apr 27, 2021Matt May is Adobe’s head of inclusive design. His work includes integrating inclusive design practices across every aspect of the Adobe user experience, training and mentoring the Adobe Design team, and advocating principles of accessibility and inclusive design to the public at large. How did you get your start in accessibility? I was working as […]
Virtual reality (VR) offers new and compelling ways for users to interact with digital content. These include immersive experiences that are beneficial in various domains, such as gaming, training simulations, education, communication, and design. As VR technologies mature and commercial VR systems grow, an opportunity exists to understand how to incorporate accessibility as a fundamental […]
Q&A With Samantha Evans, Certification Manager, IAAP
Mar 25, 2021Samantha Evans is the Certification Manager at the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP). Her role focuses on promoting, guiding, and developing a series of professional and technical certification programs to establish benchmarks of accessibility skills and knowledge. How did you get your start in accessibility? Like most people in the accessibility community, I came […]