Posted by interpol_p 17 hours ago
This should really be the last resort.
Edit: was thinking about this feature https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/get-live-captions-of-...
The above caption for Apple Vision Pro is for a video that to me, as an Apple Vision Pro user, is discomforting.
More questions are raised than are answered by the short video: Is the user able to fit the Apple Vision Pro by him/herself? What happens when dwelling on a directional control misregisters? Can the user recalibrate the "Eyes and Hands" setting? Dwelling on a control displaces focus and there may be impeding objects in the path of the power wheelchair. Is this really a good idea?
To my sensibility, the video is unsettling (at best), especially given how cumbersome Apple Vision Pro is.
[0] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/05/apple-unveils-new-acc...
With all due respect, my concerns are not nonsensical but borne of my daily use with Apple Vision Pro and my awareness of the limitations of dwell control.
Iterating on this idea with a device lighter than Apple Vision Pro and improvements to dwell control would likely be required before this could ship to larger populations of disabled users, but that is not what is depicted in the video.
My sense is that the possibility of an accessibility affordance with people who are severely disabled is driving opinions in this case more than the reality of what’s available.
To my mind, much of these AX announcements are reminiscent of the circumstance that led John Gruber to author “Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino”, which is that these are not shipping features but ones slated for “some time later this year”.
I’m a huge AX fan and work directly in the domain space, but something about that video in particular coupled with my near-daily use of Apple Vision Pro doesn’t feel right.
It’s the hardware I designed coupling the power wheelchair to the AVP, and I’ve driven it myself.
"possibility of an accessibility affordance" what do you mean possibility, that is literally the case. Even if it's not perfect (which nothing truly is, obviously), it is undeniably a novel control system for its target audience.
"doesn’t feel right" So your point is simply that your subjective opinion is that it 'doesn't feel right'? What does that even mean? I'm not saying, and the announcement is not saying, that this is some platonic ideal of accessibility controls. Not sure what you are getting at at all.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accessibility/brai...