Built for every season of how you read.

What we support

Shipped, tested, in your hands today.

VoiceOver

Every card, chart and button has a clear label. Symptom sliders are fully adjustable by VoiceOver swipe. The pollen ring and 5-day forecast strip announce themselves as one sentence each, not 30 fragments.

Larger Text

All text in the app respects iOS’s Larger Text slider — from the Quick Read articles to the personal risk score.

Reduce Motion

Pollen ring animation, loading spinners and transition animations all stop when iOS Reduce Motion is on.

Reduce Transparency

The Premium preview blur drops to a solid surface when iOS Reduce Transparency is on, so screen readers and low-vision users get clean contrast.

Differentiate Without Color

Forecast risk levels are shape-coded as well as colour-coded. Format chips (Read / DYK / Routine) use a glyph plus a label, never just a colour.

Sufficient Touch Targets

Every interactive element meets Apple’s 44pt minimum tap target — chips, buttons, dismiss controls, the lot.

Transcripts

Every article that can be listened to (TTS narration) has the same text on screen — the audio is the article body read aloud, not separate content. Premium.

What we don’t support yet

Honest about the gaps.

We’d rather tell you what we haven’t validated than imply support we can’t back up.

Bold Text

Our custom typography doesn’t yet honour the iOS Bold Text setting. On the v1.3.0 roadmap.

Audio Descriptions and Captions for video

We don’t ship video content yet. When we do (Watch shelf, v1.3.0+), every video will have captions and an audio description.

Voice Control and Switch Control

Should work via our VoiceOver labels but we haven’t formally validated. Email support@haelo.life if you rely on either — we’ll prioritise your use case.

Standards we work to

The frameworks behind the work.

• WCAG 2.2 AA colour contrast on all text. We ship dedicated AA-safe colour tokens — haeloAmberText, haeloMeadowText and haeloCoralText — for text on light surfaces where the base brand colours would fall short.
• Apple Human Interface Guidelines — the Accessibility section, taken as the floor not the ceiling.
• UK Equality Act 2010 — the reasonable adjustment standard for service providers.