Issue Accessibility designed into immersive technology from the outset

Summary

Disabled people form one of the world's largest minority groups, accounting for one in six individuals. Immersive experiences can raise public awareness of the barriers they face and help increase the social inclusion of marginalised groups. It is just as important that immersive technologies are usable by disabled people themselves. In education, training and social settings, disabled users risk being excluded if accessibility is not built in from the start. Inclusive design principles developed together with disabled people across many kinds of experience can stop new technologies from recreating the very exclusions they set out to remove.