Create accessible spatial experiences

Create accessible spatial experiences

This video goes over basic accessibility features, vision, motor, cognitive, and hearing. Designing your application with accessibilitiy in mind helps you design a more accessible application for everybody.

Vision

• Support users who are visually impaired
  • VoiceOver Support
    • Screen reader - Example - HappyBeam
      • Use Standard Controls
      • Adopt Accessibility Modifiers
      • For more see
        • Accessibility in SwiftUI
        • SwiftUI Accessibility: Beyond the Basics
      • Configure accessibility properties on RealityKit Entities
        • Label, value, traits
        • Custom rotors, custom actions, custom content
          • For More See
            • Making Apps More Accessible With Custom Actions
            • VoiceOver efficiency with custom rotors
            • Tailor the VoiceOver experience in your data-rich apps
        • System actions
      • VoiceOver and Hand input
        • Won’t receive hand input by default
          • Allow for safe exploration for people using VoiceOver
        • Direct Gesture Mode
          • App receives hand input
          • VoiceOver does not process its own gestures
          • Post Announcements that describe the scene, meaningful events, context change
            • Number of clouds in front
            • Heart gesture recognized
            • Cloud state changes
            • New rooms, environments, or items
        • Choose either normal or VoiceOver state.
    • Visual Design
      • Support Dynamic Type
      • Alternate layouts at largest accessibility text size
      • 4:1 contrast ratio between foreground and background color
      • For More See
        • Make your app visually accessible
      • Use Head Anchors sparingly / Use world anchors
    • Motion
      • Reduce Motion Enabled
        • Rapid Movements
        • Bouncing/wave-like movements
        • Zooming animations
        • Multi-axis movement
        • Spinning/rotation effects
        • Persistent Background effects

Motor

• Support users with physical disabilities with eye/hands
  • Go hands-free with Dwell Control
    • Tap, Scroll, Long Press, Drag
  • Pointer Cotnrol
    • Eyes, Head, Wrist, Index Finger
  • Allow people to bypass movement

Cognitive

• Support people who learn, remember, and process information differently
  • Guided Access
    • Promotes Focus
      • Restricts people to a single App
    • Minimizes Distractions
      • Background other apps
      • Removes ornamental UI
      • Suppresses hardware buttons
    • For More See
      • Create accessible Single App Mode experiences
  • Best Practice
    • Reduce complex hand gesures -> Hard to learn
    • Create consistent and familiar UI
    • Give people time to enjoy your app

Hearing

• Support people with hearing difficulties
  • Add Captions Phases All at once and are easy to read
  • No roll out Captions
  • AVKit and AVFoundation handle Captions
  • See API