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What concrete caption, audio-cue and locomotion-alternative guidance do Meta Horizon OS and Apple visionOS publish, and how do their precision and status differ from XAUR?

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Only Meta gives numeric caption parameters (about 1 m start, ~0.5 s roll-up, 32 characters x 2 rows, at most 4 speakers) and labels them evolving and non-blocking; Apple and XAUR stay at principle level; none cites measurements. Meta's optional head-leashed captions vs Apple's advice not to anchor content to the head is kept as a platform difference. Curator qualifications: Documentation read 2026-10-22; no engine, exporter or headset run; behaviour not observed. Meta pages are dynamic; live bytes differ from the producer pins (content re-verified). No study behind the numeric values. Limitations: Documentation read 2026-10-22; no engine, exporter or headset run; behaviour not observed. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.w3.org/TR/xaur",
      "note": "Meta Horizon accessibility design page (live bytes differ from producer pin; dynamic page); Meta Horizon accessibility checklist (live bytes differ from pin); Apple HIG accessibility JSON (bytes equal producer pin)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/accessibility",
      "note": "Meta Horizon accessibility design page (live bytes differ from producer pin; dynamic page); Meta Horizon accessibility checklist (live bytes differ from pin); Apple HIG accessibility JSON (bytes equal producer pin)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://developers.meta.com/horizon/design/accessibility/",
      "note": "Meta Horizon accessibility design page (live bytes differ from producer pin; dynamic page); Meta Horizon accessibility checklist (live bytes differ from pin); Apple HIG accessibility JSON (bytes equal producer pin)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://developers.meta.com/horizon/design/accessibility-checklist/",
      "note": "Meta Horizon accessibility design page (live bytes differ from producer pin; dynamic page); Meta Horizon accessibility checklist (live bytes differ from pin); Apple HIG accessibility JSON (bytes equal producer pin)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/NOTE-xaur-20210825/",
      "note": "observed URL (dated/alias form of the cited catalogue source; canonical identity retained)"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Only Meta gives numeric caption parameters (about 1 m start, ~0.5 s roll-up, 32 characters x 2 rows, at most 4 speakers) and labels them evolving and non-blocking; Apple and XAUR stay at principle level; none cites measurements. Meta's optional head-leashed captions vs Apple's advice not to anchor content to the head is kept as a platform difference. · locator: Meta Horizon accessibility design page (live bytes differ from producer pin; dynamic page); Meta Horizon accessibility checklist (live bytes differ from pin); Apple HIG accessibility JSON (bytes equal producer pin) source

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component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

Linked records

cites → https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/accessibility
cites → https://developers.meta.com/horizon/design/accessibility
cites → https://developers.meta.com/horizon/design/accessibility-checklist
cites → https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/NOTE-xaur-20210825
cites → https://www.w3.org/TR/xaur

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