  Mobile phones pervade our daily lives and play ever expanding roles in many
contexts. Their ubiquitousness makes them pivotal in empowering disabled
people. However, if no inclusive approaches are provided, it becomes a strong
vehicle of exclusion. Even though current solutions try to compensate for the
lack of sight, not all information reaches the blind user. Good spatial ability
is still required to make sense of the device and its interface, as well as the
need to memorize positions on screen or keys and associated actions in a
keypad. Those problems are compounded by many individual attributes such as
age, age of blindness onset or tactile sensitivity which often are forgotten by
designers. Worse, the entire blind population is recurrently thought of as
homogeneous (often stereotypically so). Thus all users face the same solutions,
ignoring their specific capabilities and needs. We usually ignore this
diversity as we have the ability to adapt and become experts in interfaces that
were probably maladjusted to begin with. This adaptation is not always within
reach. Interaction with mobile devices is highly visually demanding which
widens this gap amongst blind people. It is paramount to understand the impact
of individual differences and their relationship with demands to enable the
deployment of more inclusive solutions. We explore individual differences among
blind people and assess how they are related with mobile interface demands,
both at low (e.g. performing an on-screen gesture) and high level (text-entry)
tasks. Results confirmed that different ability levels have significant impact
on the performance attained by a blind person. Particularly, otherwise ignored
attributes like tactile acuity, pressure sensitivity, spatial ability or verbal
IQ have shown to be matched with specific mobile demands and parametrizations.
