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I Know What the Apple Vision Pro Is For
The headset is already changing disabled users’ lives.
In lieu of eye gaze, the pointer can be controlled with one’s head, wrist, or finger, and most of the accessibility features users are familiar with from other Apple products — reduced motion, color filters for color-blindness, and hearing-device support — are included. Here, I felt with sudden force, was a stark instance of this ethos in action: a low-vision software engineer with strabismus who had helped to design and test the Apple Vision Pro, and on the other end of that equation was Maxine Collard, with a similar suite of disabilities, who could barely contain her enthusiasm at this tool that allowed her to do her work with a freedom and ease she’d never imagined for herself. Everyone relies on fallible technologies, but disabled users are in an especially precarious position, and this experience of a smoothly functioning stack suddenly imploding with a developer’s capricious update happens constantly, including from companies that have demonstrated a commitment to accessibility in the past.
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