[Air-L] WEBCAST TODAY: a11yvr – Designing Augmented Reality Systems to Empower People with Low Vision @YuhangZhao1 #a11y #XR

[Joly MacFie]

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ISOC Live posted: "On Thursday October 22 2020 at 7pm EDT / 23:00 UTC / 8am
JST (Fri) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts ‘Designing Augmented Reality
Systems to Empower People with Low Vision‘ on Mozilla Hubs. Low vision is a
visual impairment that falls short of blindness "

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<https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr10>On *Thursday
October 22 2020* at *7pm EDT* / 23:00 UTC / 8am JST (Fri) the *Accessibility
VR Meetup <https://www.meetup.com/A11yVR/>* hosts ‘Designing Augmented
Reality Systems to Empower People with Low Vision
<https://www.meetup.com/a11yvr/events/273466936/>‘ on Mozilla Hubs.

Low vision is a visual impairment that falls short of blindness but cannot
be corrected by eyeglasses or contact lenses. Unlike people who are blind,
low vision people have residual vision and extensively use their vision in
daily activities. However, prior research has mainly focused on providing
only audio and tactile feedback for blind users, overlooking low vision
people’s residual vision and unique needs. To address this gap in low
vision accessibility, *Yuhang Zhao*, a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell
Tech, seeks to leverage the residual vision that low vision people have,
and design intelligent augmented reality (AR) systems that provide direct
visual augmentations according to the users’ visual abilities and tasks.

*LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr10
<https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr10>*

*PARTICIPATE: https://hubs.mozilla.com/G6edX79/a11yvr-project/
<https://hubs.mozilla.com/G6edX79/a11yvr-project/>*

*REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr
<https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr>*

*TWITTER: @a11yvr <http://bit.ly/A11yVR>  @YuhangZhao1*

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*https://archive.org/details/a11yvr10
<https://archive.org/details/a11yvr10>*

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