Accessibility in WebVR

As I mentioned in yesterday's APA teleconference:

   https://www.w3.org/2017/03/22-apa-minutes.html#item09

There is a proposal for new work on WebVR at W3C. This follows the WebVR 
workshop last year:

   https://www.w3.org/2016/06/vr-workshop/report.html

and the work of a WebVR Community Group:

   https://www.w3.org/community/webvr/

which has prepared several resources in their GitHub repository, 
including a WebVR explainer:

   https://github.com/w3c/webvr/blob/master/explainer.md

and WebVR proposed specification:

   https://w3c.github.io/webvr/spec/latest/

As you can see in the workshop report, there are known accessibility 
implications for WebVR, and a need for us to engage effectively on the 
work as it develops. This message is to alert the APA WG to this work 
and to request initial thoughts. I hope to arrange a joint meeting 
between the APA WG and participants from the WebVR CG in the near future 
to ramp up our knowledge and identify steps we should take.

Michael

Received on Thursday, 23 March 2017 13:25:53 UTC