Ratings & Reviews for Diet, Fitness & Exercise Apps for People with Dexterity Impairments
Lose It!
Common Accessibility Issues
Difficulties occurred when built-in voice controlled mobile accessibility features utilizing vocally prompted numerical grid overlays, could not successfully manipulate standard app elements, and when clickable app elements were unresponsive to a user’s assistive device inputs.
Commentary from Reviewers
“Using the Grid system [via Voice Control] made things difficult. Grid is three steps every time. [Enabling the “Show Numbers” [command] whenever possible would make things easier.”
“Changing weights would be easier if there was a better input method, like through voice, e.g., '5 ounces'”
“Scroll wheel works really well with glassouse. Glassouse really has good control of keypad too. Button for going into the next text field, Hitting 'Enter' should take you to next field.”
Using GlassOuse: “After [I] typed in fields there was no way to intuitively get out of the onscreen keyboard.”
My Fitness Pal
Common Accessibility Issues
Participants with dexterity impairments using iOS Voice Control (a built-in accessibility feature that enables Apple phone use through voice commands) were unable to easily navigate within MyFitnessPal because the accessibility feature’s overlay could not consistently access clickable buttons and fields within the app interface.
Participants with dexterity impairments, using a Bluetooth-paired GlassOuse assistive device (a wearable gyroscope-based system worn like glasses to enable cursor control using head movements and clicking action using a connected bite-switch), was unable to control app interface, because many of the entry fields were unresponsive or overly sensitive to the device inputs
Commentary from Reviewers
“Entering numbers via a scrolling scale was almost un-doable via voice control and number grid”
“Only being able to use the grid feature to select quick-log options vi the blue plus sign makes the button-selection process far more cumbersome and adds unnecessary steps”
“The plus sign turns into an x, but I cannot select the 'x' b/c the accessibility feature [my Voice Control] overlay covers the 'x' . [I] had to go to the meal logging page and exit out of that in order to escape the expanded quick-log options; show-number command didn't work; had to use show-grid command (more steps, more hassle)”
“Not being able to scroll via voice control made the process of selecting a number (via grid feature) very cumbersome and overly complex in the amount of steps needed”
“Being able to say the number desired rather than having to use the grid to scroll through numeric options in a range would make the process easier and faster”
“Scroll wheel skips numbers quickly. Must be very sensitive [to GlassOuse movements]. GlassOuse takes [me] out of the app because the app doesn't take up all of the screen on [my] iPad Mini 4. When trying to input letters, [the app entry field] it is very sensitive (three 'm's' were inputted while typing the email address)”
Fat Secret
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.