Health and Disability

There is a divide between the people building technology tools for patients and the patients that may use them. Too often tools are built in the same way one might build a social media app or a news web site.

However, a great many users have a greater need for accessibility from these tools.

University of Washington researchers conducted a review of consumer-facing digital health tools on the market in 2014 and found that none of them were accessible.

Because people who are blind or have low vision are more likely to have health problems such as obesity or diabetes, it’s especially important that mobile health (mHealth) applications — health tracking sensors that connect with smartphone apps — work for those users.