Healthcare Innovation with People of All Abilities
Accessibility experts Pia Zaragoza and Joel Isaac present universal design frameworks to ensure medical devices and healthcare apps are secure and accessible to all.
Summary
Disability Inclusion in Digital Health
With over one billion people worldwide experiencing some form of disability, healthcare technology must be engineered to accommodate diverse physical, sensory, and cognitive abilities.
Universal Design and Digital Accessibility Principles
Pia Zaragoza and Joel Isaac walk through foundational universal design standards, evaluating how medical software interfaces often fail basic accessibility requirements.
Balancing Security Controls with Usability
The authors analyze how overly complex authentication mechanisms (such as visual CAPTCHAs or biometrics) can lock disabled patients out of life-saving medical devices.
A Practical Guide for Inclusive Healthcare Engineering
The presentation provides development teams with actionable design patterns to build accessible, secure, and intuitive digital health solutions.
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