Accessibility
Designed for Every Kind of Sight and Every Kind of Mind
No green. No red. No assumptions.
At a glance
- No green and no red anywhere. Colour never carries the meaning on its own.
- The reading profile picker in the header stacks Dyslexia, Soothe, and High Ease.
- Calm View stills the whole page. Read-aloud is on every page.
- Built to WCAG 2.2 AA at minimum, reaching for AAA wherever a person's need demands it — and shaped toward what WCAG 3.0 is becoming. Colourblind-affirming. RSD-safe.
A quick word on what's next: WCAG 3.0 — and the wider international framework forming around it — is still being drafted. Nothing is final yet, so we won't pretend to follow it. We're keeping an eye on it as it comes through, and when it lands, we'll move with it.
Two ways to make reading easier
DysPhilter® lets you change the words, and change the look. Both are yours to choose. Both are optional.
The profile buttons — they change the words
Choose how the words read for you. Four ways to read:
Standard: everything, in full.
Soothe: shorter, calmer sentences. Less on screen.
Dyslexia-friendly: short, simple sentences — and the dyslexic font and extra spacing turn on for you.
High Ease: very plain words. Very short sentences. For low energy or a hard day.
The Read button — it changes the look
Press Read to change how the words look. Three helps inside:
Bionic — the first part of each word is bold. Your eyes find the start of words more easily. Many people read faster this way.
Dyslexic font — a font made for dyslexic readers. Letters have heavier bottoms and rounder shapes, so b, d, p and q are harder to mix up.
Crowd Shield — extra space between words and lines. The page feels less crowded, so your eyes can follow one line at a time.
No Green. No Red.
Green means right. Red means wrong.
Both are hard to tell apart for one in twelve men with colour blindness (Colour Blind Awareness Organisation / NHS).
Both trigger Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria in neurodivergent people.
DysPhilter® uses warm, neutral colours instead. Everything has an icon and a text label. Never colour alone.
Why cream, not white
Pure white with pure black is not the friendliest pair it looks. For many dyslexic and ADHD readers, that stark glare makes letters swim, blur, and shake — the brain fights the light instead of reading the words.
So the pages are warm cream, and the words are deep dark charcoal — never pure black on pure white. The contrast stays strong and measured (checked against the WCAG minimum of 4.5 to 1, with AA as our floor and AAA the aim), but the glare is gone.
But one palette can't suit everyone — what calms a dyslexic reader can be too soft for someone with low vision, whose eyes need the sharpest possible edge between the words and the page. So there's now a colour picker in the header of every page: Oat deepens the cream, Indigo is a soft blue with no yellow tint at all for migraine, Navy keeps the cream and turns the words a steady blue, Lavender offers a gentle violet, Rose a soft pink, Mist a cool grey-blue, Sharp goes black on white for the hardest possible edge, and No Colour drops colour entirely to grey. Hover or tap any colour's name and it tells you, briefly, who it helps. Night mode still turns the whole canvas dark with cream words when evening comes, and every single pair is checked so the words never dissolve into the background.
Every colour, and who it's for
The colour picker in the header isn't decoration. Every colour in it exists because a real eye needs it. I get migraines myself and I wear glasses, so I know how a bright screen can feel by the afternoon. And for a while I worked at a blind school, where I learned how much of 'seeing' happens in the brain, not just the eyes. These colours come from that lived experience — mine, and the people I've known — not from a design trend.
Sharp
Black on white, the hardest possible edge. Not friendly to everyone — but for low vision and screen-magnifier users, the sharpest edge is the one you can actually read.
Cream
The default. Warm cream, soft dark words — the pairing dyslexic and ADHD eyes read most easily, because there's no glare to fight.
Oat
Cream, deeper. The same warmth with more weight behind it — grounding on anxious days or when everything already feels too much.
Indigo
A soft blue-violet with no yellow tint anywhere. Migraine eyes often need exactly this — the tint I reach for myself when one is coming on.
Navy & Cream
Cream underneath, navy blue on top. The soft background dyslexic readers rely on, with cool, steady blue words — calm focus for fragile concentration.
Lavender
A gentle violet. Restful for sensory overwhelm — quiet to look at, without going cold.
Rose
A soft pink — warm like cream but without the yellow. Some light-sensitive eyes settle on pink better than anything else.
Mist
A cool grey-blue. For people warm colours wind up instead of settle — coolness without the sharp edge of white.
Monochrome
Grey only, colour gone. For when any colour at all is extra load — the brain reads, and nothing else asks for attention.
You'll find the same meaning in the picker itself: hover or tap any colour's name in the header and it tells you, in one brief line, who that colour supports. And every single pairing is checked against the WCAG contrast floor before it ships — a colour that doesn't pass never reaches the picker.
Status indicators
Universal Access
DysPhilter® never asks "Do you have a diagnosis?" It asks "Do you need more time to process?" No labels. No gates. Built from lived neurodivergent experience — designed for everyone.
Plain Language
Every word on this platform is readable at a Year 8 level. No fancy words. No tech words. No clinical terms. If something goes wrong, you see "Something went wrong. Please try again." — not a technical error code.
One thing at a time
It shows only what you need.
The platform holds a lot. When your capacity is low, it shows less. No labels. No judgement.
Consent first, not a cold call
A bank should never just ring you out of the blue. With DysPhilter®, contact starts with your permission. For deaf and hard-of-hearing users, a hyper-realistic AI BSL interpreter joins the call by video — so a human interpreter cancelling never leaves you stranded and missing an appointment. After every call, a transcript is sent to both parties: a record that supports memory recall for a neurodivergent or vulnerable user, and evidence a company can show to prove where it complied — and where it needs to improve. All of it feeds the audit record.
Pioneering for blind, low-vision, Deaf and hard-of-hearing people
Every picture, described in words
Every photograph and portrait on this platform carries a literal description — what it shows, in plain words — so a blind reader can form the same mental image a sighted reader gets at a glance. No image is ever just decoration that hides its meaning.
Read-aloud on every page
Any page can be read aloud, in a steady voice, at your pace. The page never flashes or moves while it reads, and nothing interrupts the words.
Every symbol explained in plain words
Nothing here is only an icon. Every symbol on the platform is explained in plain words on the symbols page, so meaning never depends on seeing it.
Signs, not just sound
For Deaf and hard-of-hearing people, calls start with consent — and an AI British Sign Language interpreter can join by video, so a human interpreter cancelling never leaves you stranded. After every call, a written transcript goes to both sides.
Nothing important speaks by sound alone
No alert, warning, or message relies on hearing it. Everything that matters is written, with an icon beside it. If your sound is off, or your ears work differently, you never miss the point.
Everything reachable by keyboard
Every button, link, and control can be reached with Tab and Enter, in a sensible order, with a clear visible focus ring so you always know where you are. Headings follow a logical structure, so screen readers can find their way.
See every symbol explained in plain words
What we claim, and what we don't
WCAG 2.2 AA is the recognised accessibility standard today, and that is what we build to and measure ourselves against. WCAG 3.0 is still a draft — nobody can honestly claim conformance to it yet, and we never claim what we can't prove. When it becomes a real standard, we'll measure against it and say plainly where we stand.
Where we go next
This updates as the work continues — and it's built with blind, low-vision, Deaf and hard-of-hearing people, not just for them. Nothing here ships until it passes the screen-off test.
Ask the picture a question
A flat description only goes so far. We're building toward conversational image exploration: you ask 'what are the exact numbers?' or 'what is that person's face doing?' and the answer comes back in plain words — the real meaning, not just the pixels.
Memes and GIFs, explained
A meme is a joke told in pictures and shared culture. Describing what the pixels show isn't the same as explaining the humour. We're building toward the joke being explained in plain words, so you're in on it, not left out of it.
Seats in a conversation
In a room, you know who's talking by where their voice comes from. We're building toward the same thing in text and voice threads: each person's messages arrive from their own direction — one from the left, one from the right — so you always know who's speaking, without reading a name first.
Feel what happens
Distinct vibration patterns for what the phone is doing: one crisp pattern for a message arriving, another for one you sent, and a different texture entirely over anything destructive — so an accidental tap never deletes something that mattered.
Say what you want changed
Voice typing that dumps words on a screen still makes you hunt through them afterwards. We're building toward spoken edits: 'change that last word to tomorrow' — and it's done, without navigating back through the text line by line.
Around me
Your surroundings, shared quietly with the people you choose: your status can say 'in a noisy place' on its own, so friends know to send text rather than a voice note — without you ever having to explain.
The screen-off test
Our own rule before anything ships: if our team cannot use a new feature with the screen brightness at zero, it isn't ready. Every protection feature has to work by words, sound, and touch alone.
Presets made with the community
Settings designed with blind, low-vision, Deaf and hard-of-hearing advocates — not twenty toggles for you to hunt through. Curated profiles like 'Audio-first' and 'High contrast, large text', shaped by the people who need them.
Made for everyone, every day
The dropped kerb was cut for wheelchair users. Parents pushing prams, people pulling suitcases, and delivery workers with trolleys use it every day without a thought. That's the honest way to build accessibility: make it right for the people who need it most, and everyone else is carried along too. Nobody is the afterthought.
All the time
People who are blind, have low vision, or are Deaf, and who rely on the non-visual parts of the app every single time they open it. Nothing here is allowed to work half-way for them — and they are the people who test it hardest and tell us the truth about it.
On some days
People with partial sight, colour blindness, dyslexia, or ADHD — needs that change with the day, the light, and how much the brain has already done. Bigger text, calmer colours, motion switched off, one thing on the screen at a time: their settings are theirs, and the app moves with them.
Right this minute
Everyone else, some of the time: hands full of shopping, glaring sun on the screen, eyes worn out by a full day of looking. Read-aloud, voice input, and contrast that survives daylight were built for blind users first — and they quietly serve everyone else on the hard days.
So the rule we hold ourselves to is simple: every feature has to work three ways — read it, hear it, feel it — before it ships. If it only works with your eyes, it isn't finished.
How much energy you have right now
This bar shows your energy level. A shorter bar just means you have less energy right now. It never means you are doing badly.