Many mobile health apps neglect needs of blind users
From: ECN - 07/17/2015

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.

Yet University of Washington researchers who conducted the first academic
review of nine mHealth applications on the market in March 2014 found none
met all the criteria that would make them fully accessible to blind customers.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.ecnmag.com/news/2015/07/many-mobile-health-apps-neglect-needs-blind-users
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2015/07/many-mobile-health-apps-neglect-needs-blind-users
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/uow-mmh071615.php

Links:
Lauren Milne
http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~milnel2

The Accessibility of Mobile Health Sensors for Blind Users
http://scholarworks.csun.edu/handle/10211.3/133384

Mobile Accessibility
http://mobileaccessibility.cs.washington.edu