Understanding VR Accessibility Practices of VR Professionals

要旨

Accessibility is a crucial concept in Virtual Reality (VR), pivotal for meeting the needs of users, including those with disabilities. In recent years, there is an increasing focus of VR products on enhancing the accessibility of a diverse range of digital content. Despite this growing attention from the VR community, there is a serious lack of empirical research on how VR practitioners consider VR accessibility. This includes their understanding of and insights into VR accessibility challenges and practices in the VR software development life cycle. In this paper, we aim to address these gaps using a mixed-methods approach. Specifically, we conducted interviews with 21 VR practitioners (incl. 3D modelers, developers, technical directors, and product managers), and surveyed 202 VR practitioner respondents from VR related industries. Our findings outline their insights and challenges they face concerning VR accessibility practices in the software development life cycle. Furthermore, our findings shed light on the challenges faced by practitioners concerning VR accessibility and the reasons why it often goes unconsidered. As far as we know, this is the first comprehensive report about the understanding of accessibility for VR software from the practitioner's perspective. We hope this paper will help VR professionals to better understand the issues and challenges in VR accessibility, and the potential solutions.

著者
Yi Wang
Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Xiao Liu
Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Chetan Arora
Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
John Grundy
Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Thuong Hoang
Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
DOI

10.1145/3706598.3713927

論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713927

動画

会議: CHI 2025

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2025.acm.org/)

セッション: XR for Different User Needs

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