"I Don't Want My Mental Health App To Give Me Mental Health Barriers": Unpacking The Need For Digital Mental Health Tracking Services With And For The Blind Community
Digital mental health (DMH) tracking services promise continuous, personalized support for well-being, but their design often assumes sighted users. For the blind community, this assumption produces a distinct pattern of exclusion: services whose accessibility cannot be evaluated without first paying for them, community features that exclude the users they purport to support, and interfaces that leave users digitally literate but functionally blocked. We report on an explanatory sequential mixed
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Published: 11 August 2026
Source: arXiv cs.HC
Category: Research
Topics: Privacy · Healthcare
Retrieved: 13 August 2026
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