Re: Review of XR Accessibility User Requirements COGA

Hi John, Lisa and David,

We reviewed these suggested user needs and requirements in the research 
questions meeting today (minutes here 
https://www.w3.org/2021/05/12-rqtf-minutes.html).

Can you please give us some more info on the following?

[New User Need] 4.20 Wayfinding - Review of XR Accessibility User 
Requirements COGA [1]

Q: RQTF would like some more information on the user case for mono, and 
we are not clear why this is especially a use case for low vision? Can 
you please clarify?

Also regarding: [New User Need] 4.21 Understanding Actionable Targets - 
Review of XR Accessibility User Requirements COGA #181 [2]

While there was some agreement that this is an interesting request in 
terms of how interaction affordances can be translated across modalities 
(and that this is important) - the group thought while the user need is 
clear we need more detail around suggested requirements/implementation. 
For example, the XAUR already states the need for personalization 
support for people with cognitive disabilites (as a user need with a 
related requirement):

User Need 3: Users with cognitive and learning disabilities may need to 
personalise the immersive experience in various ways.
REQ 3a: Support Symbol sets so they can be used to communicate and 
layered over objects and items to convey affordances or other needed 
information in way that can be understood according to user preference.

https://raw.githack.com/w3c/apa/6d5bf713d9d7c65ecda104c213ad47b0e98cfbe1/xaur/index.html#immersive-personalisation 


This would seem to already cover the actionable target use case that you 
suggest. Any extra details on your thinking and a response to the 
suggestion that the actionable targets case  may be covered, would be 
great. I've also added these questions to Github so please feel free to 
reply there (whatever works).

Thanks in advance

Josh

[1] https://github.com/w3c/apa/issues/180
[2] https://github.com/w3c/apa/issues/181

> John Kirkwood <mailto:kirkwood@citymouse.com>
> Saturday 1 May 2021 03:11
>
>
> Upon review of draft XR Accessibility User Requirements 
> <https://raw.githack.com/w3c/apa/6d5bf713d9d7c65ecda104c213ad47b0e98cfbe1/xaur/index.html> we 
> propose the addition of the following paragraphs:
>
>
>
>
>       4.20 Wayfinding
>
>
>  *
>
>     User Need 20:Users with limited vision and spatial orientation
>     impairments may have issues orienting and navigating.
>
>  *
>
>     REQ 20:Provide clear landmarks.clear landmarks either visual or
>     audio landmarks to follow or to enable return to paths. Provide
>     visual land marks.  Mono audio sound to be sent to both headphones
>     so that the user can perceive and navigate and remember the
>     landscape and enable return paths.
>
>
>       4.21 Understanding Actionable Targets
>
>  *
>
>     User Need 21: Users with cognitive impairments need to understand
>     what items in a visual display are actionable targets, and how to
>     interact with them.
>
>  *
>     REQ 21a: Targets that are actionable should be clearly  indicated
>  *
>
>     REQ 21b:Users need to be provided a clear understanding of how to
>     interact with actionable targets. For example, a slider, where the
>     user needs to click and drag.
>
>
>
>
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