If there’s one thing I’ll personally benefit from when I eventually strap a Vision Pro to my head, it’s consuming entertainment.īut it’s unclear to me at the moment how using Vision Pro as a computer-gazing at a specific item in order to act on it-will work for me. And like Apple TV, audio description will be available to catch what I don’t when the content has been described, as it is on Apple TV+.
The movie or show is right there, just in front of my eyeballs. No need to sit super close to a TV or use magnification devices as I sometimes do today. After all, content will be close to my eyes, where it needs it to be before I can see it fully. Lots of people have assumed that I, a person with low-vision, must be incredibly excited about using Vision Pro. We’ll need to learn more about potential input methods for this community, but Vision Pro could be a game changer. In this way Vision Pro could be the most accessible Apple platform yet for someone with motor disabilities like cerebral palsy or quadriplegia that prevents or limits the use of one’s hands.
So Vision Pro potentially offers a better experience to someone who uses their eyes to scroll or select things onscreen. In many cases, an eye blink or a mouth stick are used to act on the focused item, when users can’t touch a screen or input device.Įye gaze access is available in some, but not all contexts on Apple platforms. That’s a method of interaction already familiar to people with disabilities who don’t use touch gestures or handheld input devices and trackpads to interact with their phones or computers. The interaction method at the heart of Vision Pro and visionOS is eye gaze-interacting with an item onscreen by looking at it, rather than touching or clicking it to gain focus. There are also a lot of understandable unknowns about whether the user experience might tempt a specific person with a disability to part with $3500, come 2024. And more to say about who is excited for the device and how it can actually enhance accessibility of the world in which it finds itself. It’s true… but there is a lot more to say, even many months before the headset ships. Apple has once again considered the needs of users who interact with their tech differently than most do. Apple is bringing an astonishing number of accessibility features found on other platforms to the headset.įor most observers, Apple’s WWDC sessions about how to build accessible apps for the headset is as far as they feel the need to go. Existing technologies like VoiceOver and Dwell Control will be integral to the way people with disabilities use the product. The Apple Vision Pro announcement was not focused on accessibility, but the product will definitely be accessible to people with disabilities. Vision Pro accessibility: Great potential, but many unknowns
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