I'm actively learning Norwegian through DuoLingo. While I'm not opposed to more apps, I'm also not gonna go out of my way to help make another one work better.

This looks like something that would require actual paid market research.

I'm decently conversational in Russian. Have taken it in college for three years and can read Gogol with a dictionary.

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I used pretty much everything in hardcopy Braille for the first two years, only this year have I reached the point where I can listen to it (very slowly!) and sort of understand it. Even then, it takes five or six times and if I need to do any translation I NEED it in Braille.

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Literacy is really important, so I would highly recommend integrating Braille into the app. Russian Braille isn't too difficult to learn; I think it's the same for other languages.

I don't this would be "learning a language", just "hearing and maybe speaking a language". I don't know how to express it but it would be pretty much like someone who knows how to speak their mother language but that has never learned how to read and write. Writing is a fundamental part of communication to everyone, us included.

My suggestion is making the app in a way a screen reader can spell the words out for the person using it. If this involves learning a new alphabet there'll be no problem, I think most languages in the world can be translated to some blind-friendly writing (like Braille or typing in a computer or smartphone)

I've tried duo lingo, but when it gives you pictures and expects you to match that to a word, then that's not going to be doable. So, some way to take the visual elements out of learning the language.

I used Pimsleur long ago to work on language skills. They are solely audio files, so no question of accessibility from a vision angle. Just conversations you listen to and speak back. Having something like that with the supplement of having an app assess my speech would be nice. More recently I have used Mondly and Duolingo, but the match the picture format is a bit tough for obvious reasons.

I'm using Duolingo, and Google translate for basic words and sentences.

I'm guessing they would hear it.