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10:55 pm on March 28, 2022 · a11y (127), a11ysig (75), a11yvr (32), accessibility (84), vr (24), XR (11)

WEBCAST APR 12: A11yVR – Building a More Accessible Social Virtual Reality World – Thomas Logan

March 28, 2022 by ISOC Live

On Tuesday April 12 2022 at 19:30 EDT / 23:30 UTC / 08:30 JST (APR 13) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts ‘Building a More Accessible Social Virtual Reality World‘ online. Thomas Logan is the owner of Equal Entry, whose mission is “contributing to a more accessible world.” Equal Entry has been hosting events as part of the Accessibility Virtual Reality Meetup for two years. In the last three months, they’ve worked with developer intern Owen Wang to create new functionality that makes Hubs easier to use for people who are blind and low-vision. In this talk we’ll learn about how they’ve:

Added the ability to describe avatars.
Automatically included label information from SketchFab to objects imported into the world.
Enabled custom functionality in the chat interface to work with screen readers.
Added user interface buttons to label and describe any spatial object.
Added synthesized speech output of descriptions.

The session will be webcast live via a partnership with the Internet Society New York Chapter Accessibility SIG (A11ySIG).

LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr24 (open captions)

PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM: https://www.meetup.com/a11yvr/events/284494637/ (open captions)

REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr

TWITTER: @a11yvr @TechThomas @Equal_Entry #a11y #AR #XR #VR @IAAPOrg @MozillaHubs #captioned

SIMULCASTS (open captions)
https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive
https://youtu.be/yF4I263OiMs (monitored for comments)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/punkcast/

ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/a11yvr24

12:31 am on February 22, 2022 · a11ysig (75), a11yvr (32), accessibility (84)

WEBCAST FEB 8: A11yVR – Supporting the Speech Disabilities and Differences Community Using VR – Gareth Walkom

February 22, 2022 by ISOC Live

livestream On Tuesday March 8 2022 at 08:00 EST (13:00 UTC) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts ‘Supporting the Speech Disabilities and Differences Community Using VR‘ on Mozilla Hubs. Gareth Walkom is the Founder of withVR, which better prepares people with speech disabilities or differences for real-life speaking situations by utilizing the power of virtual reality. Gareth has had a stutter since the age of six. Since 2015, he has researched how virtual reality can be used to benefit people just like him. His research focused on developing an innovative virtual reality application to observe stuttering behaviors which experimented with exposure therapy, eye behaviors, and other biometric sensors.

The session will be webcast live via a partnership with the Internet Society New York Chapter Accessibility SIG (A11ySIG).

LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr23 (open captions)

PARTICIPATE VIA HUBS: https://www.meetup.com/a11yvr/events/283609464/ (open captions)

REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr

TWITTER: @a11yvr @GarethWalkom @withvrapp #a11y #AR #XR #VR @IAAPOrg @MozillaHubs #captioned

SIMULCASTS (open captions)
https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive
https://youtu.be/MAL_bw5l-pQ (monitored for comments)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/punkcast/

ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/a11yvr23

8:11 pm on January 28, 2022 · a11yvr (32), vr (24), XR (11)

WEBCAST FEB 8: A11yVR – Accessible Multimodal Input in Augmented Reality Training Applications

January 31, 2022January 28, 2022 by ISOC Live

On Tuesday February 8 2022 at 19:00 EST (00:00 UTC / 09:00 JST Jan 20) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts ‘Accessible Multimodal Input in Augmented Reality Training Applications‘ online. Ashley Coffey will share recent PEAT research on making immersive hybrid workplaces more inclusive and accessible. She’ll reflect on themes explored in an “Inclusive XR in the Workplace” white paper co-authored with the XR Association. Tim Stutts will share his design experience with multi-modal inputs (hardware controls, gesture, voice) and sensory feedback (graphical, LEDs, sound, haptics) for augmented reality head-mounted displays, touching briefly on his previous work on Magic Leap’s Lumin OS, symbolic input and surrounding accessibility efforts, before diving into current Vuforia Work Instructions applications for HoloLens, RealWear, and most recently Magic Leap, with the debut of Capture and Vantage applications to the platform.

The session will be webcast live via a partnership with the Internet Society New York Chapter Accessibility SIG (A11ySIG).

LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr22 (open captions)

PARTICIPATE VIA HUBS: https://www.meetup.com/a11yvr/events/282792497/ (open captions)

REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr

TWITTER: @a11yvr @ashleycoffey @PEATWorks @timstutts @Vuforia @PTC @magicleap #a11y #AR #XR #VR @IAAPOrg @MozillaHubs #captioned

SIMULCASTS (open captions)
https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive
https://youtu.be/HERoRreHNAQ (monitored for comments)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/punkcast/

ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/a11yvr22

5:53 pm on January 10, 2022 · a11yvr (32), health (4), vr (24)

WEBCAST JAN 18: A11yVR – A Voice For Virtual Reality: The Advocate’s Role – Heather Bucalos

January 10, 2022 by ISOC Live

On Tuesday January 18 2022 at 19:00 EST (00:00 UTC / 09:00 JST Jan 20) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts ‘A Voice For Virtual Reality: The Advocate’s Role‘ online. Two-time cancer survivor, Heather Bucalos, RN, knows firsthand of the benefits of VR for oncology patients. She used VR during her month-long hospital stay while being treated for blood cancer in 2020. The discomfort she experienced during cancer treatment led her on a search for better relief of common cancer treatment side effects. The idea to use VR during her own treatment proved beneficial for her as she is now a fierce advocate of VR in healthcare.

The session will be webcast live via a partnership with the Internet Society New York Chapter Accessibility SIG (A11ySIG).

LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr21 (open captions)

PARTICIPATE VIA HUBS: https://www.meetup.com/a11yvr/events/282196531/ (open captions)

REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr

TWITTER: @a11yvr #MedicalVR #a11y #XR #VR @IAAPOrg @MozillaHubs #captioned

SIMULCASTS (open captions)
https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive
https://youtu.be/smMwnSyn2i0 (monitored for comments)

ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/a11yvr21

8:24 pm on June 19, 2021 · a11ysig (75), a11yvr (32), accessibility (84), vr (24)

WEBCAST: A11yVR – Exploring Virtual Reality User Experience for People with Facial Palsy – Claire Baert & Marg Laing

July 18, 2021June 19, 2021 by ISOC Live

On Thursday July 15 2021 at 19:00 EDT / 23:00 UTC / 08:00 JST (Fri) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts ‘Exploring Virtual Reality User Experience for People with Facial Palsy‘ on Mozilla Hubs. Claire Baert & Marg Laing will cover learnings about how to do research with people with facial palsy, the challenges of adapting the headset and creating experiences for these users, explain how user research was brought into the product team, show examples of how user-centered design techniques were employed, and discuss their collaboration on a new VR therapy for people with facial palsy.

The session will be webcast live via a partnership with the Internet Society Accessibility SIG (A11ySIG).

LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr16 (open captions)

PARTICIPATE VIA MOZILLA HUBS: https://www.meetup.com/a11yvr/events/278709922 (open captions)

REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr

TWITTER: @a11yvr @Claire_csg @emteqlabs marg_laing #UX #VR #XR

SIMULCASTS (open captions)
https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive
https://youtu.be/ne2PkDu51Xc (monitored for comments)

ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/a11yvr16

12:02 pm on June 7, 2021 · a11ysig (75), a11yvr (32), accessibility (84), ally (2), captioning (2)

WEBCAST JUNE 17: A11yVR – Captions and Beyond: Building XR software for all users – Evan Tice

June 19, 2021June 7, 2021 by ISOC Live

On Thursday June 17 2021 at 18:30 EDT / 22:30 UTC / 07:30 JST (Fri) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts ‘Captions and Beyond: Building XR software for all users‘ on AltSpaceVR. Captions in XR provide an opportunity for participants with hearing and speaking differences or language barriers to communication. Evan Tice, Senior Software Engineering Lead for AltspaceVR, will cover captions design and implementation (so far) in AltspaceVR from the perspective of one of the engineers who worked on it. In addition, this talk explores how engineering and design teams might think about designing software for those who experience XR differently from them.