I am Karim Gouda Said Hessan, founder of the KNGWorld community on https://kngworld.it, becoming reference in Italy for technology accessible to the blind and visually impaired people. I had the occasion to wear a Meta Quest 3S Headset; I am completely blind, and I have to face a great problem: the headset OS does not have a screen reader onboard. I am in Italy and I can't even use voice commands.
Fortunately, with the Horizon app in my phone I can start an horizon world, that I can fully navigate thanks to the spatial audio of the Headset, I can open youtube with the Horizon app then use my hands to start a random video, or I can connect it to my PC using Horizon workrooms and take benefit from the great spatial audio coming from the screen of my PC to edit a video with the screen reader installed on my Mac, that is VoiceOver. The problem is that I can't fully control the headset without the help of a person who can see, and in 2025 is frustrating, coming from an era of fully accessible products since the beginning.
With the use of controllers to command the headset, it should not be difficult to integrate a Screen Reader that helps opening apps, searching in them or just control menus and settings and from a brand like Meta, that should have been done since the beginning.
I am asking for warranties that the headset will have a screen reader onboard in a short period of time from now; otherwhyse I'll stop using the headset, I'll return it back, and I'll push associations who support blind people, for example the "Italian Union of Blind and Visually Impaired" "UICI", to cooperate with you and make the headset accessible for me and other thousands of blind people out there.
I am available to test, suggest and contribute in every way I can to the implementation of a fully functional screen reader for the Headset, I hope someone from teh staff will reply to this claim and that we can cooperate.
