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Accessibility remains an afterthought – how NZ’s digital health tools risk excluding people with disabilities

  • Written by Sally Britnell, Senior Lecturer in Nursing, Auckland University of Technology
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Alongside my career path from a PhD in computer science, work as a nurse and ambulance officer and now a university lecturer in nursing, I have become progressively deafblind.

As a result, I have personal experience navigating New Zealand’s health system, both as an employee and patient living with dual sensory loss.

My...

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