Music to the ears of the visually impaired Peloton family, instructors on the platform began providing audio descriptions of their appearance, clothing, and sometimes surroundings over the last month.

Like all accessibility measures implemented for a specific audience, this one benefits everyone using the digital app on or off their famed equipment.

Reminder: voice-to-text features on your smartphone and the captions you enable to help you understand the plot twists on the latest episode of The White Lotus were developed with accessibility in mind.

So how could this latest example of UX In The Wild, an accessiblity feature created for a specific audience, benefit the general user experience for those using the Peloton platform?

You tell me.

Share your thoughts and ideas in the comments section below, and I will update this post with a list I’ll begin:

• Learning the official name of hairstyles, cuts, etc., outside my origin and culture

• Adds new words to my growing Spanish repertoire (when taking classes from a Spanish-speaking or German-speaking instructor)

  To be continued…