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On November 20, 2020, Accessibility VR hosted a Meetup entitled "Haptics for XR – How designing great haptics can support use case accessibility". Presenter Eric Vezzoli, Haptics Architect at Interhaptics, outlined in excellent detail how haptics can make for better experiences in virtual reality

Bill Curtis-Davidson is a Senior Consultant – Emerging Tech Accessibility at Wheelhouse Group, supporting PEAT’s Future of Work Initiative. In this role, he works to advance accessible emerging technologies to increase the employment of underrepresented populations, including people with disabilities.

On April 16, 2020, Accessibility VR hosted a Meetup entitled "Universal Immersive Design." Presenter Doug North Cook, founding faculty for the Immersive Media programs at Chatham University and lead instructor for the Immersive Design Residencies at Fallingwater, described a set of best practices that everyone should consider for accessibility in virtual reality.

On March 3, 2020, Accessibility New York City hosted a meetup entitled "Designing Together: Co-Designing a VR Therapy." Presenter Indira Knight, Design Researcher from the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art, described gameChange, a virtual reality therapy for people with psychosis to help them feel more confident in everyday situations. She gave an excellent overview of how this project was managed and collaborated on across a wide group of multi-disciplinary professionals.

Equal Entry Accessibility Consultant James Herndon is presenting Live Audio Descriptions for 360-Degree Video: Best Practices at CSUN 2020. As a preview to his presentation, he asked me to review one of the illustrative examples he will be using in the presentation.   

[caption id="attachment_2583" align="alignnone" width="934"] Fruit Ninja for PlayStation VR[/caption]

Procurement officers and employees responsible for purchasing products for a company may request an Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR) based on the ITI Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT).

Christine Hemphill is an inclusive researcher, designer, and innovator. She is the Managing Director of Open Inclusion, a global agency based in the UK that she founded in 2015 to bring the value of disability- and age-inclusive insight to design and innovation.