I had a chance to do six brief interviews during the poster session of XR Access Symposium 2023 that I've compiled into this single podcast episode. This gives a great overview of some of the emerging topics for XR accessibility including XR accessibility heuristics, representing disabilities through avatars, audio descriptions for 360 videos, using AR glasses for live captioning, accessibility implications of augmented reality art, and the assistive technology potential of digital twins.



Below I'll highlight each of the posters with an image as well as as the representative I was able to speak to, the co-authors, and be sure to check the alt image information for more information on what the poster says.



I spoke to Spandita Sarmah about the poster titled "Formulating Inclusive and Accessible Heuristics: A Developmental Approach." Here is a Google Doc copy of the poster.







I spoke to Ria Gualano about the poster titled "Expanding Inclusive Avatar Design: Understanding Invisible Disability Representation and Disclosure on Social VR Platforms"







I spoke Lucy Jiang about the poster titled "Beyond Audio Description: Exploring 360° Video Accessibility with Blind and Low-Vision Users Through Collaborative Creation"







I spoke to Su Chen from LLVision about the poster titled "AR Subtitle Glasses: Breaking Down Communication Barriers"







I spoke to $NP Designs' Denise Coke about the accessibility implications of her augmented reality art.







And I spoke to WINNIIO's Nicolas Waern about the assistive technology potentials of digital twins.











This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon.



Music: Fatality