Accessibility Lessons: Context-Sensitive Text Alternatives
Equal Entry conducts many audits. In doing the work, we make suggestions on how to make something accessible and improve the user experience. We want to share what we’ve discovered...
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How Two Accessibility Consulting Companies Team Up for Accessibility Testing
AccessAbility Officer has a job readiness training program designed for non-sighted vocational rehabilitation customers who want to be digital accessibility testers. Students...
Mapping the Disability Tech Market with Perkins School for the Blind
The Howe Innovation Center is part of Perkins School for the Blind. The center is named for Samuel Gridley Howe, the founding director of Perkins. He was a visionary for his time...
Virtual Reality: How to Implement Snap Turning in Unity for People with Disabilities
In virtual reality (VR), users can look around and interact with 3D objects inside a virtual world by wearing a headset and holding two hand controllers. Often, you have to...
AI for Accessibility: Opportunities and Challenges
Links to all resources mentioned in this article are listed at the end of the page. Shari Trewin started with a story about captions. In 2020, she was one of the accessibility...
Vampire Survivors: Can a one-handed game be enjoyed by a person with a disability?
Very few video games have earned as much hype and won as many awards in the past year as Vampire Survivors. It’s all the more remarkable when you remember it’s a $5 game made by...
A Deaf Person’s Dream of Seeing Captioned Broadway Show Realized … Or Was It?
I came to New York to see my first-ever captioned live Broadway show. I’ve seen captioned movies at the theater. But I had never attended a live show that had captions. Once, I...
How Do You Add Alternative Text and Metadata to glTF Objects?
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines require all non-text content to have a text alternative provided. Though this requirement has existed for over 20 years, there is no...
Automatic Captions: Our Experiments and Best Practices
The number one rule for high-quality accessible captioning is readability. After all, if nobody can read your captions, then none of the other rules matter. People put so much...
Virtual Reality User Study with Children and Seniors in a VR Experience
Technology solutions often overlook children and seniors. So, Equal Entry worked with VRTogether and Azalee Group to design a user study to understand how children and seniors can...
How to Create an Effective Tactile Graphic
While in New York City, Thomas Logan and I went to New York University’s Ability Project. It’s an interdisciplinary research space dedicated to the intersection between disability...
Accessibility Lessons Learned from Blind Users Attending a User Research Study
Equal Entry held a user research study on virtual reality accessibility for blind users in New York City. This involved nine participants who commuted from their homes to the NYU...