Accessibility
What Was I Watching is built so it can be used by everyone. This page describes the assistive technologies the app supports and how to reach us if something doesn't work for you.
What we support
- VoiceOver
- Every screen, control, and informative image carries a meaningful spoken label. Selection controls (watch state, rating, season) are grouped so the current value is announced with the group, and the row in your list is one combined element so VoiceOver doesn't read each piece separately.
- Voice Control
- Icon-only controls (rating, share, find-this-show, streaming service links) accept plain-English voice commands in addition to their spoken labels — for example, "Tap Heart" or "Tap Find this show".
- Larger Text
- Text scales with the system Larger Text setting, including the Accessibility sizes. Rows grow with their content rather than clipping.
- Dark Interface
- The app follows the system appearance, with a complete dark treatment designed for low-light reading.
- Differentiate Without Color Alone
- Selection and state are conveyed by shape, fill, or weight — not by color alone. Watch-state, rating, season, and filter controls all carry a non-color signal in addition to their tint.
- Sufficient Contrast
- Text and meaningful UI are sized and coloured for legibility on our primary screens. See "Known limitations" below for the few places we haven't reached the bar yet.
How we declare
The features above mirror our declaration on the App Store Accessibility Nutrition Label. We follow Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for accessibility and Apple's stated criteria for each Nutrition Label feature; we declare a feature only where the app meets those criteria across common tasks.
Known limitations
We run Apple's accessibility audit on every primary screen and fix what we can. A few items remain that we either rely on Apple to address upstream, or that fall short at the smallest font sizes:
- The first-launch in-app tip (Apple TipKit) renders over a translucent material with low contrast. This is a system component; the rest of the onboarding flow is compliant.
- On iPad, the system keyboard's predictive-text bar and the split-view "Choose something from your list" placeholder are Apple-provided UI we cannot restyle.
- A small number of Settings labels rendered by the system Form control (section footers and one section header) do not reach the contrast bar at their default styling, despite our overrides.
- On the home list, content scrolled directly under the floating search toolbar can dim because the toolbar's translucent material tints the background it sits on. The text remains legible; we're tracking a layout fix.
This page is updated whenever our App Store Nutrition Label declaration changes.
Feedback
If something in the app is hard to use with your assistive technology, we want to hear about it. Please email [email protected] with a brief description, the screen you were on, and the assistive technology you were using. We read every message.