How Can a Blind Person Use Virtual Reality? Jesse Anderson, who runs IllegallySighted on YouTube, shares advice for creating accessible virtual reality experiences. He reviews games from his perspective as a blind person. There are games designed specifically for screen reader users, but these tend to be more simplistic and don’t hold his attention for… [Read More]

How Virtual Reality Makes It Possible to Experience Different Vision Conditions VoxelKei, a Japanese “VR world developer”, has created NearSighted Classroom (VRChat) to allow other people to see what it’s like to have short-sightedness. After sharing the world on Twitter (where you can see a video of the world in action), the developer received positive feedback… [Read More]

Accessibility Virtual Reality Meetup: What Is It Like in Spatial? Meryl Evans documents her experience of using Spatial, a virtual reality environments for events, to host the Accessibility Virtual Reality (A11yVR) Meetup. Spatial offers multiple ways to participate, including using a VR headset, a mobile app, or joining via the browser. Joining from the latter,… [Read More]

Resident Evil 4 VR update adds accessibility options for comfort Resident Evil 4 on the Oculus Quest 2 – which I own, and think is brilliant! – has just had an update, concentrating primarily on accessibility options. Your waist and chest height parameters are now configurable, making it easier to grab your weapon etc. Someone in… [Read More]

Am I disabled? “With my pen hovering over a form, there is no easy answer: better to provoke stigma with support, or resist classification?” Joanne Limburg writes about the dilemma she faces when filling in forms that ask “Do you consider yourself to be a disabled person?” Joanne was diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD)… [Read More]

How to write user stories for accessibility Not a particularly long article, but I may as well cut straight to the chase with some examples: As a keyboard-only user, I want to know where I am on the screen so that I can perform an action or navigate to other areas of the site. Or… [Read More]

It’s Mid-2022 and Browsers (Mostly Safari) Still Break Accessibility via Display Properties Adrian Roselli does some manual testing of the display CSS property – with a particular focus on display: contents – across different browsers, meticulously recording the results here. For the uninitiated, there’s a CSS Tricks article about display: contents. You can apply this… [Read More]

My War On Animation Article on The Verge, as part of July’s Accessibility Week. The author writes about their experiences navigating the web as someone who finds any animation a stimulatory overload. They acknowledge that there are documented standards for the ‘limits’ of animation on the web, such as keeping gifs to five seconds maximum…. [Read More]