Built for the eyes that need it
Emma is a companion for people living with glaucoma — a condition that affects sight. So accessibility isn't an afterthought for us; it's the whole point. Emma is designed so you can use her comfortably even when reading the screen is hard: large, clear text, spoken answers you can listen to instead of read, and the ability to ask your questions out loud.
If anything about Emma is hard for you to use, we want to hear about it. Write to us at info@withemma.health.
Our commitment
We are committed to making Emma usable by as many people as possible, including people with low vision, blindness, and other disabilities. We treat accessibility as a core part of the product, not an optional extra, and we improve it continuously based on what our users tell us.
Who Emma is for
Emma is made for adults living with glaucoma and the people who care for them. Many of our users have reduced vision. We design every screen and interaction with that reality first — choosing clarity and calm over density and decoration.
What Emma does to help
Listen instead of read
You can ask Emma a question out loud and have her answer read back to you aloud, so you never have to depend on reading small text on screen.
Read-aloud answers
Emma can speak her answers using your iPhone's text-to-speech, with a choice of voices in Settings.
Large, high-contrast text
Emma uses generous text sizes, clear spacing, and high-contrast colours, and respects your iPhone's Dynamic Type and Dark Mode settings.
A reading aid for the world
Emma's camera reading aid reads small print aloud — medicine labels, letters, leaflets — for moments when text off the screen is hard to make out.
Simple, predictable layout
Large tap targets, clear labels, and a calm, uncluttered interface that's easy to navigate without precise vision.
Spoken reminders
Medication and appointment reminders can speak aloud, so you don't have to read a notification to know it's time.
Working with your iPhone's accessibility features
Emma is built to work alongside the accessibility features already in your iPhone, including:
- VoiceOver — Apple's screen reader. Emma's controls are labelled so they can be read aloud and operated by touch.
- Dynamic Type / Larger Text — Emma scales with the text size you set in your iPhone's settings.
- Dark Mode & increased contrast — Emma adapts to your display preferences.
- Spoken interaction — speech recognition and read-aloud, all on your device.
If you don't already use these, your iPhone's Settings > Accessibility is the place to turn them on.
This website
This website (glaucoma.withemma.health) is built to be accessible too: it uses semantic structure, a "skip to content" link, keyboard-navigable controls, scalable text, and high-contrast colours, and it sets no cookies or third-party trackers. It is designed to work with screen readers and at increased zoom levels.
Standards we aim for
We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at Level AA for this website, and to follow Apple's accessibility guidance for the Emma app. Accessibility is an ongoing effort, and we test and refine as we learn from real users — many of whom live with sight loss.
Known limitations
We are honest about where we still have work to do. Some areas we are actively improving:
- Coaching videos are hosted on YouTube and follow YouTube's own player and caption controls.
- Spoken interaction depends on your device's on-device speech support; where it isn't available, Emma falls back to typed input rather than sending your voice away.
- Higher-quality British voices may need a one-time download from your iPhone's settings; Emma guides you through this.
If you hit a barrier we haven't listed, please tell us — it helps us prioritise.
Tell us how we can do better
We want your feedback
If you find any part of Emma or this website hard to use, or if you need information in a different format, contact us:
Email: info@withemma.health
Post: R.Tej Health Analytics Private Limited, A-125 New Friends Colony, New Delhi 110025, India
We aim to respond within two working days, and we treat accessibility feedback as a priority.