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This Is What Happened at a Captioned Virtual Reality Webinar
- Meryl K. Evans describes their experience of attending A11yVR meetup, which you can watch. Meryl is deaf and relies on the captions, but being in a VR environment raised several issues, such as other avatars standing in front of the captions. Technical issues such as captions disappearing or being delayed didn’t help.
Accessible page title in a single-page React application
- Post by Hugo Giraudel, describing how following a link on a ‘normal’ web page loads a new page and causes a screen reader to read out the page title – this behaviour might be missing from your React SPA. He creates a
<TitleAnnouncer>component, which listens for a change in Helmet state to update the contents of a screen-reader hidden<p>element, and apply focus to it. Hugo acknowledges this element could be avoided altogether if you can guarantee there is always a relevant<h1>in the page.
How home working leaves deaf people out of the loop during coronavirus
- Three quarters of people who live with deafness fear they will be less productive working from home. People who lip-read or use British Sign Language are especially at risk of being excluded from phone and video interactions. We can all help by speaking one at a time, using a well lit camera, and providing textual or visual presentations.
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