What is a Fitbit and does it have accessible features?
Fitbits are wireless-enabled activity trackers, which are worn on your wrist like a watch. When worn, the device logs a range of data about your activities, including the number of steps you take, distance traversed and calories burned. You can then view these stats through the screen of the device or via an app. All the historic data is stored, so you can view and compare your performance over a long period of time.
Fitbits are simple and easy to use for people who are blind or partially sighted. Once you have set up the Fitbit app on your smart phone you can use your phones inbuilt accessibility options such as VoiceOver/TalkBack as well as magnification options to review your key statistics.
Depending on which device you have you can also active other options on the device itself, such as being able to zoom in on the Fitbits display (Charge 6), Fitbraille uses haptic feedback to represent braille characters to provide access to your step count and the time (Versa), contect to an Amazon Alexa to check your stats such as steps, heart rate etc (sense, Sense 2, Versa 3 and Versa 4).
