Apple Highlights Vision Pro's Accessibility Features with Head, Wrist, and Index Finger Controls

[Torty]

It’s cool but only with big and heavy headsets. And not for everyone suitable. I still think it will go the way of 3D-TVs. At first people were enthusiastic but became bored quickly until they said that they are only interested if it’s possible w/o glasses.

 

[JapanApple]

The concept looks as if it works with a range of most needs. Application is there that is needed.

 

[TalkingHead#]

Pointer Control

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It takes years for a thumb nail to grow that long :-(

 

[ConfusedChris]

Do these clash with the AssistiveTouch gestures for the Watch?
(If the person could ‘simply’ use the other hand then they probably wouldn’t be using AssistiveTouch.)

 

[lorca2770]

cool stuff- always accessibility-minded. hope we see visionOS become less of an iPadOS clone in the future, but they’re off to a good start.

OH, Great! I shall wait for your next opinion
Jayyyzzzuuuzzzzzz

 

[Populus]

Check out the gestures in VisionOS. You can also create custom ones.

Thank you for this document, very interesting!
I wonder what happens when your fingers are in such an angle that the cameras on the headset don’t see if they are touching or not.

 

[Vado]

Thanks for posting and highlighting this.

As someone with a disability with limb impairment I was curious during the keynote just how accessible the Vision Pro and visionOS would be to someone with disabilities when I saw the requirement to tap your fingers together to select options during the keynote.

As someone who has no fine finger movement I'm relieved to see that once again accessibility has really been thought about by Apple and it looks to be really well developed already within visionOS.

I must admit I've never really had an interest in VR/AR headsets due to my accessibly needs and the requirements to use handheld controllers etc. However with the debut of the Vision Pro, this has changed, it's an incredible bit of engineering however I won' be rushing out to buy next year.

It is reassuring though that with the pace of development and when costs become more palatable (2nd, 3rd, 4th Generation products) the accessibility is there and will no doubt be even better by then.

 

[Macmonter]

I wonder how the device works with people who have strabismus/lazy eye.

For example, my right eye is my dominate eye. However, when I switch between my left and right eye my alignment changes a bit. Not too noticeable in public but I do not have binocular vision despite getting surgery to fix the cosmetic issue.

My concern, too!

 

[CarAnalogy]

This is good but Guided Access already means something else. As much as they love proper nouns they probably should have chosen a different name. Or maybe rename Guided Access in the first place, this actually makes more sense. It should be called Restricted Access as it exists on iOS.

 

[warriors2017]

I see big potentials in education and government market once they come up with programs to assist accessibility.

 

[_Spinn_]

Apple really put a lot of thought into this!