A Social Justice Approach to Assistive Technology and Well-Being of People With Visual Disabilities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Qualitative Narrative Study

Luisa Maria Ortiz-Escobar   ^{1, 2 *} , MSc ;   Mario Andres Chavarria   ^{3, 4, 5 *} , PhD ;   Samia Hurst-Majno   ^{2 *} , MD, PhD, Prof Dr Med ;   Oscar Ivan Campo Salazar   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Celia Escobar-Hurtado   ⁶ , MSc ;   Michael Ashley Stein   ^{7, 8 *} , PhD ;   Minerva Rivas Velarde   ^{2, 5 *} , PhD, Prof Dr

¹ Grupo de Investigación en Ingeniería Biomédica, GBIO, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Santiago de Cali, Colombia

² Institute of Ethics, History, and Humanities, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

³ Grupo de Investigaciones en Biomédica, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Santiago de Cali, Colombia

⁴ EssentialTech Centre, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

⁵ School of Health Science, HES-SO Genève, Geneva, Switzerland

⁶ Escuela de Rehabilitación Humana, Facultad de Salud, Universidad del Valle, Santiago de Cali, Colombia

⁷ Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States

⁸ Faculty of Law Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

*these authors contributed equally