Apple Vision Pro - Accessibility visionOS Walkthrough 

As a visually impaired user who uses accessibility a lot, it is so so good to see a mainstream youtuber like yourself doing such a big video on this. You are amazing, Brian. Thank you so much.

As someone who worked with the team to create the accessibility features for the Vision Pro it makes me so happy to see someone use the features.

Accessibility is such a huge topic. Apple Vision is going to bring a whole new life to people with mobility, communication and dexterity issues. So glad you made a whole video about it.

I don’t usually comment on videos, but I am a blind, voiceover, user, and ironically, I just googled the accessibility features for Vision Pro. It is nice to see one of my RU-vidrs actually going in depth into those settings, instead of all of the other settings. It is nice to see a RU-vidr, who I have been watching for a long time, actually dive into the settings and show them in depth for people who may not know about them..

Amazing work Brian! As a blind voice over user, you have no idea how useful this actually is to me. Hats off to you for dedicating a whole video to accessibility options rather than a gloss over section at the end of a video like most other RU-vidrs are choosing to do.

Thank you so much, sir I appreciate it. I’m visually impaired and this really meant a lot to me.

I have watched pretty much all of the early vision pro videos on here and your channel easily has the most extensive coverage

As someone with a nystagmus disease (uncontrolled eye movements) I was worried not being able to use this product ever. I’m happy Apple thought about all this and implemented a lot of accessibilities like different font sizes, eye movement stabilisation and other gestures than your eyes. Amazing! Thank your for your important video.

Thank you so much Brian. I am legally blind and completely rely on my Apple products in my daily life to help with various things like magnifying or reading. It is a breathe of fresh air to see Apple has not left the disabled community hanging concerning this product. There will be a learning curve regardless of how long a person has been using Apple accessibility. Thank you for taking the time to share the accessibility functions and options on the Vision Pro. It is much appreciated by all users.

Another blind voiceover user here chiming in to add how appreciated this video is! After watching these reviews and the longest one on MKBHD’s channel, my first thought was how nice it’d be if someone did a deeper dive into the accessibility features of Vision Pro. Turns out Brian already had us covered! Been subscribed for years and following Brian for well over a decade. Absolutely love this big of a tech channel dedicating a whole video to accessibility. Really looking forward to the amount of accessibility Vision Pro will bring to the VR headset space overall and more videos on using it. :)

BT is always delivering the full experience. I haven’t seen anyone cover the accessibility features, and it’s something I’ve been curious about as a visually impaired person. Thanks for doing this!

How are you the only one still releasing videos about the Vision Pro?! We don’t deserve you! Thank you! Also please show more work related videos, I want to know if it makes you more productive or if you’d prefer an external monitor.

Brian, THANK YOU SO MUCH for making this video. I’m completely blind in my right eye and have lost about 50% of my vision in my left eye, and your video has helped me understand that even despite my impairments, Vision Pro is still perfectly usable for me. Brace to Apple for keeping a consistent focus on accessibility for all of their products, and bravo to you for alleviating every single one of my concerns! Now I just have to wait for Vision Pro to launch in Australia :)

Thank you so much for covering accessibility! It is rare to see big channels, like yours, reviewing features for such a subset of the population. Thank you so much! Incredibly useful!

Brian, thanks for helping to hold me over for the last few hours before launch. This is insightful!

I am blind and really excited for the Vision Pro to come to Australia it could change my life completely for the good

Brian, thanks for the in-depth look at the accessibility settings! As someone with extremely limited mobility, I appreciate seeing the possibility of how I can actually use this device. At this point, there have been very limited articles and documentation on the accessibility features of the AVP so this is tremendously helpful. It is nice to see that Apple thought through the usability of this device and implemented these features to be as helpful as they are on all their other devices. Now I guess I need to start saving...

You are the best for highlighting these features Brian. Thank you!

It’s 5:55 am and I’m watching these videos 😅 #WhatEvenIsSleep

Hello, thank you for covering what you could for Accessibility. I think you're the first person actually seen to even acknowledge these features for the Apple Vision Pro. Many of the features do indeed seem to carry over from iOS, which is a great thing. As a legally blind User who often uses voiceover, and covers voiceover accessible content on my channel, I would really love to learn more about how it works in more of a spatial interface. How do gestures work for both sequentially going through content, using Explore by touch, and even things like using the virtual keyboard with voiceover on. I would also be curious how things work if someone has nystagmus, rapid eye movement, and can't visually focus on the things to interact with them that way. I would love to cover this headset for my channel, but you know, $4000 and all.

I really enjoy your videos, Brian. I really appreciate that you have gone the extra mile.

Thank you for covering this important topic!

Great tutorial Brian! I'm going to play with some of these settings!

thank you Brian for making this video.

Your videos are the best, I enjoy them so much!!

Great upload and editing

Thanks Brian! This is very helpful. 👍🏻

Thanks for the review 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 I’ve been searching for a VP accessibility review. As a visually impaired user I am very excited to get a VP. Thanks again ✌🏻

such a helpful video, thanks for making a video around a11y for the vision pro

This thing is crazy amazing

This is amazing ! This video shows off how easy to use Os software within space is. This will be fun

This helped a ton, my Dad has poor vision so it's nice to see what could be helpful to enable for him if he gets one. I would think having a huge display and being able to have things read out loud to him will make this thing more useful than the mac with studio display. Thank you for the walk through!!

great Job bro

Great video. I’ve always been impressed by Apple’s implementation of their accessibility philosophy. The features are upfront, easy to access and PLENTIFU. Great job using your platform to share information and assist the community in your own way.

Yea that is very helpful

Thanks so much for doing this Brian. Super valuable for many of our customers. We build born-accessible apps and websites for our clients, and being able to share an overview of available settings with potential users is immensely helpful so they can decide if Vision Pro v1 is likely to be a good fit for their needs.

Absolutely amazing. Thanks for this video. Now I definitely know, that I want this, and most important thing is, that I will be able to work with the Vision Pro. I can magnify things, let the voice to read long articles, whatever. Thanks again.

@briantong Thanks so much for this in depth review! I also am wondering if the magnifier app will magnify the whole pass-through or just menus/on screen content?

Thank you so much for doing this! I experience multiple physical challenges including cerebral palsy and vision. My eye tracking is terrible, but I can use my fingers to point to things. I also use voice control on my Mac as well as larger print. I have a general rule of computing which is," if I can't touch it or talk to it, I'm not doing it." I am super excited about the accessibility possibilities for vision pros pass-through. These are things you probably have never thought of but suppose you could write an app that would magnify the small print on the back of packages. You could then take your vision pro to the grocery store and actually read the ingredients and prices. You could even use OCR for the system to look at what you're looking at and speak it out loud. This would bring incredible independence! That's why I am super excited about vision pro and now I know I can get one once the price comes down a bit. In the meantime I really want to learn Swift so I can develop an app like the one I've just described. If somebody else does that before I do, that's OK. I'm just really looking forward to the new possibilities vision pro presents!

Thank you for this video😊 2:45

“It’s a gimmick, there’s no use for this” they say. It will literally change some people’s lives.

It will be a cool accessibility feature if we can look at someone physically through the avp or via FaceTime and have the person’s dialogue come out as subtitles. Even cooler if we can have live translate of those conversations appear as subtitles in your language. Similar to what some apps and Samsung’s live translate and transcript is doing. But with avp we have it appear as visual subtitles (or audio)

very good insights, especially for people with disabilities. I guess the Braille is the same as on the Iphone..

Can you magnify part of your environment? When you used the magnify function, you were magnifying the window. I could see u sing this in some of my work environments where I need to magnify tiny circuits.

You are the best…I will forever be a subscriber of your channel. I wanted to know if Vision Pro would work for me with my vision….. and I got my answer…You had me crying after watching this video.

Love your iPhone 6 you up song

Great to see a major tech RU-vidr make an Accessibility vídeo for a new product that couve be either a ‘game changer’ for the V.I.P., or be a ‘ barrier raiser’ that could keep us out of the tech world… Thanks só much ;) A few questions: could you set Up a black blank walpaper instad of the “seethrough” view that can be problemático for some of us V.I.P.? Also, can we zoom in or bring every window closer for esse of read purposes, including settings and control center ?… Finishing on a fin note : that “S word”… Good one 😃

Thanks Brian for doing the video. I have a physical disability that does not allow me to use my limbs. I operate my Apple devices completely by voice using Apple's accessibility feature Voice Control. Just to be clear, I use my Mac without a keyboard or mouse. I use my iPhone and iPad without touching the screen. I was hoping Voice Control was enabled on the Apple Vision Pro. I'm glad to see it is. There is a feature in Apple's Voice Control called overlay that allows you to interact with UI elements by speaking. It's there with Apple Vision Pro's accessibility Feature Voice Control. If you get brave turn Voice control's on and choose item number. See if you can choose UI elements by simply saying the number. By the way unlike Siri dictation Voice Control dictation has manners. You do not need to leave the microphone listening and have a bunch of text typed that you will have to clean up later. If you need to talk to someone simply say go to sleep, or stop listening. To wake up the microphone by voice simply say wake up, or start listening. Once again thank you for taking the time to do this video.

Thanks for this one! I still don't see how Apple will be able to create an immersive spatial computing experience for blind folk with Vision Pro, but I admire their inclusivity. I totally want to be proven wrong. Get on it Apple!

Leftie, FTW 🙌🏻

Thank you for making this video it answers a ton of my questions but one still remains. I have perfect function in one hand but the other I cannot rotate... It looks like it needs to see the palm of your hand to complete the persona setup, is there anyway around this or am I just stuck without a persona if I were to get the Vision Pro?

Nice

6:56 this feature alone is indicative that soooo much thought of the user went into this AND this is a new product with very few users. I would’ve thought this feature would come eventually but to have it baked in on launch day is impressive.

Oh man the custom gestures is going to potentially be huge

BTZ you are da man and thank you so much for doing this, it means a lot and totally appreciate you don’t have the experience to delve deep into it. Have you come across a setting a setting anywhere that adjusts the sensitivity of the actual eye tracking? Having eye that involuntarily continuously move I wonder how much of an effect they would gave on the tracking.

Blind user here, and I’m gladly surprised that you did an overview of the accessibility features. I’m a VoiceOver user, and I’m curious to demo VO on Vision Pro to give it a test drive to see how it works on there.

How are you guys recording the Eye View in the Head set? is it just screen record gesture or is it a projected view to the Mac?

Hey Brian Its Timm power wheelchair user we have met at CES several times...for someone like me and others that can't raise their arms how would we set up if I cant reach the crown or hold my palms out to set up the sensors? Also once set up can it because not having to touch the unit and letting my hands rest on my armrest or even resting on my legs? Keep up the great work for our community!! Apple support only has 2 comments!

Great walkthrough. Thanks. One question. I believe that VisionOS doesn't have a Magnifier app. Is Vision Pro useable as a wearable video magnifier by a low vision person?

thx appreciate the video. I was hoping to use this for a friend who has ALS (thus can only move his eyes, can't even talk) . I was hopeful that the interface (based on eye input - where you look) would allow blinking or staring at something instead of hand gesture to "click". Unfortunately it seems that didn't. Q - Does custom gestures allow blinking as a custom gesture?

Hey Brian how’s this thing for watching movies ?

The other thing I'm curious about, is I know the headset supports lots of phone and iPad apps. Can you use camera based apps for those platforms, like Seeing AI and Be My Eyes? I'm especially curious about the new BMI AI feature of Be My Eyes, but really hope that third-party camera apps are allowed to be used. If not, this is a shortcoming Apple needs to fix in a future update. Having hands-free accessibility for these types of tools would be very helpful For blind and low vision users.

Thanks for your Vision Pro videos but I think they will look better if you rest your head on a fixed place so the videos don’t shake as much. A alternative Could be running the videos through a stabilization software.

Is the magnifier app on the device?

Dear Brian, I am very happy as visually impaired user such a mainstream RU-vidr doing video on this, but if you turn on VoiceOver, it would be more helpful for us. Thank you

thanks for lookıng in to accessibility options. Does the magnifier at 2:54 zoom in to the real life camera feed or just the virtual stuff ?

As a blind person, I am just so curious as to what the point of VoiceOver on Vision Pro is supposed to be. Wat is the point of making an AR/VR headset, an almost purely visiual device, accessible like that? I still can’t experience the vast majority of what the headset can do, so why bother?

Can you zoom in on the passthru video? To like read a menu IRW (in real world)

I am more interested in how to do a screen shot of photos and videos from the Vision Pro and watch em as regular video on iPhone, iPad Pro, MacBook Air & Apple TV.

It’s only been a single day of the Vision Pro being in the hands of the public and I can already tell if this has an AirPods effect. This is going to become normal because it’s cool it’s.the most palpable version of augmented reality VR I’ve seen

You zipped over Reduce Motion pretty quickly. On other Apple kit, it does still parallax, but also various other animated effects, such as Dock zoomes window zooms, sliding panels, etc. Mostly, these are then replaced by crossfades. It’d be interesting to know whether visionOS has animated elements that are calmed with that feature. (Although looking at your video, the animation within the OS is less aggressive than eg iOS. When you’re going back and forth between Settings panes, there’s no slide animation, for one thing. There is some zooming, but it’s fast and relatively subtle.)

Can we connect vision pro with mac mini

I’ll wait for either the 3rd or 4th generation of Apple Vision Pro

Why only you , iJustine , MKBHD , WSJ , The Verge have earlier experience VP while the rest still need wait until 3/2 ? Is this vp very limited now ?

0:09 you welcome🔥🔥🔥

In a nutshell for someone being visually impaired, this device is the glimpse into a future that might change the game. I already came across a video where someone tested the vision pro for 24h - just to "feel" the impact. In that, she used the device in casual work like cooking. And here - if the zoom really holds up to Apples typical quality, it just might get rid of all "zoom" and magnifier helpers. Of course you can buy a magnifier glas block, zoom glasses, a giant 57" wide screen monitor with activated zoom (windows / mac), zoom-reading device etc. AND have them available where you need them (on the go?) .. but when this gets smaller, lighter that includes vision impaired people much better. Also: looking at a text on screen or in real world, OCRing it in realtime and getting a text to speech instantly might even help nearly blind and blind people. I had my fingers crossed that apple would be the one who takes care as they have such a good track-record on their accessability features (even not calling them "features for disabled") - and they delivered.

I haven’t seen anyone post about how it performs in a dim to completely dark room. I’m most curious if it could still track the hand gesture inputs in these cases. Please test.

hmmm so custom gesture instead of pushing the digital crown every time u want to see the menu would be cool

I wonder how the eye tracking works for strabismus (lazy eye).

Is it possible to use this as a magnifying glass to read books? The zoom feature only made the apps bigger but not anything else that was in the real world just the digital content

Does anyone know if the zoom magnifier can magnify EVERYTHING in the video passthrough or ONLY augmented windows and digital content? I hope it's everything, the vision pro could give someone a pseudo-"far-sightnedness". Also would have loved to see what "button shapes" actually does here and if it's different from iOS where it just "underlines some text" instead of, ya know, *actually having button shapes*. This was an okay deep-dive but didn't actually SHOW what these settings are like or do half the time.

I’ve always suspected that iOS was a much more scalable OS than MacOS. Are we in fact looking at an advanced iOS? Or is this something designed to look like iOS but something different entirely?

Does it have the ability to allow someone (not wearing the goggles) to click or other control via an iPad or similar device (i.e. without actually putting the goggles on). e.g. to assist someone with disabilities?

“That special S-word”, lol

How to face time in AVP to iPhone ?

my friend saw someone wearing this thing in public in chicago today

9:05 What surprises me is how poor the Apple's hand tracking is compared to Meta's. Meta's hand tracking feels like the pointer is a natural extension of your hand, rather than just "a calculated estimation from a camera feed"

Man you’ve got thousands of 📧 time to go through them

why i feel its going to ba another really good v ideo?

Watched Marques video and had to run to this video. I asked this question to all the content creators this? Would you pay 4k for a Vision Pro Or $4k to finally face time on an Apple Watch with clarity??

i dont see how this replaces any of my apple devices. the computer screen is super tiny and far away so i'll still have to use keyboard shortcuts to do stuff on my computer or sync projects between my iphone and computer. no interest typing on that tiny keyboard. im gonna wait until apple improves the interface. i remember last year someone went over what this would do and maybe i had my hopes up but its interface seemed way more accessible. im curious why they scrapped it or if the technology required too much resources and they wanted to save money. who knows.

THIS DEVICE IS SOO COOL. TOO BAD IT’S OUT OF MY BUDGET PRICE AT THIS TIME.

I’ve heard there’s an accessibility option for one hand users but I’ve yet to see it demo’d and am curious about it, as I have a paralyzed arm. I’m sure a video will come out in the future but If anyone has an info on it I’d love to hear what you know. Links welcome.

Don't worry about the stablenees, man. That's something apple can fix. 👍

What if some one has neck issues and cannot turn their heads, having to look up to access the menu would be impossible.

Is it worth the money???

Can I have it when you done with it?

At least hosts on legacy TV know to wear shoes. Some of us aren't into the primitive thing, especially in a high-end tech review. Maybe surf boards. Lol

@Brian, brother! PLEASE GO BACK TO Assistive Gesture and explore more! If there's ANYTHING else I wanted to see, it's that part because it could potentially mean the user have more than Pinch to interact with AVP! And The interface you triple pinched indicates "pinch or swipe" or a combination of those. BASICALLY WAVING YOUR HAND LIKE A WAND :D ! I know you're hard at work but you skimmed over that so fast whilst I've been thinking about it for years :D imagine waving your hand and being teleported to the moon. or drawing a triangle to teleport to the office environment and activate Work focus. now I understand that it's "soft locked" behind the assistive touch menu before you can start waving the wand and also, false positives... and finally, limitations of things you can attach to a gesture... but just imagine.... Please can you explore this? Is there a way to activate "gesture listening" on the fly like a triple tap on the crown?

i think apple vision pro and neuralink would be a great combo for someone paralised