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In this paper, we present AccessWear, a system that improves the accessibility of smartphone touchscreen interactions for blind users using smartwatch gestures. Our system design is human-centered, namely, it incorporates the design goals that were learned from a formative user study with 9 blind participants. The formative study showed that blind users liked the idea of using smartwatch gestures as an alternative: 4 participants liked that when using smart-watch gestures, they did not have to bring their expensive phones out in public and 6 participants liked that smart-watch gestures can be performed with one-hand, as the other hand is usually occupied in holding a cane or a guide dog. Even though there are several advantages to smartwatch gestures, our study also shows that gestures performed by blind users have different patterns compared to sighted users, making gesture recognition more challenging …