Breaking Barriers: Accessibility in the Age of Innovation

Dylan Fox is the Director of Operations for XR Access, a research initiative of Cornell Tech. An expert on accessibility for emerging technologies, he advises groups such as Meta, the W3C, and the FCC on how virtual and augmented reality can be more inclusive. He chairs the annual XR Access Symposium and is responsible for many ongoing initiatives to connect disability advocates, technologists, academics, and other key stakeholders to solve difficult problems.

Fox is also a former researcher and Masters graduate at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked on ways to leverage augmented reality for people with low vision; and has led UX design on entertainment applications used by millions of people.  Fox’s work is at the forefront of making virtual and augmented reality accessible for people who have disabilities.