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]
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]
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]
The negative impact of stylised captions on TikTok and Instagram It used to be that there was not enough captioned content on social media. People were posting videos but not captioning them, either because it wasn’t possible on the platform at the time or because they couldn’t be bothered. Auto captioning has become more and… [Read More]
The Hidden History of Screen Readers This lengthy but approachable article by The Verge covers the history of JAWS and NVDA. Ted Henter lost his sight in a car accident in 1978. Losing his job as a racing driver and mechanical engineer, he studied computer science, having to get volunteers to read programming books and… [Read More]
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