Accessibility

01Di short version

Tide an Wedda work wid seven outta Apple nine accessibility feature. Di odda two, captions an audio descriptions, nuh apply, because di app nuh have no video or audio.

02VoiceOver

Every button, switch, field an slider carry a name. When yuh open a sheet di focus move inside it, an when yuh close it di focus go back.

Di chart dem get read as text. Di tide chart give every high an low wata wid it time an height; di wedda, sky, wave an pressure chart dem give di day range an a reading every three hour.

Every day inna di BoatScore an BiteScore grid get read as one line, like “Saturday: nuh good till 08:00, good 08:00 to 11:00”, an di day open a list a every hour wid it reading dem.

Di widget dem, di Live Activity, di Apple Watch app an it complication dem have label too: a tide widget read it tide location, di height now an di next high or low wata.

03Voice Control

Every control answer to di name weh print pon it, so “Tap Tide dem” open Tide dem. Button weh draw as just a icon carry a name weh seh wah dem do.

Nutten nuh need a drag or a long press. Fi di hour-by-hour reading dem inna a score grid, say di day weh print beside di row.

04Larger Text

Di app follow Settings → Accessibility → Display & Text Size → Larger Text, up to 200%.

One limit: di forecast chart dem, di score grid dem an di tab bar keep dem own text size, because dem label sit pon a fix grid. Every day hourly detail list di same figure dem as ordinary text weh do grow.

Di Apple Watch app follow di Watch text size. Widget an complication dem keep fix size.

05Light, dark or system

Appearance deh inna di app own preference dem: Light, Dark, or System fi follow di phone. If yuh pick dark it stay dark nuh care wah di phone set to, an di dark palette cover every screen — di preference sheet dem, di notification preview dem an di first-run walkthrough, nuh just di main screen.

06Reduce Motion

Wid Reduce Motion on:

• sheet dem fade in instead a slide;
• switch dem change widout di knob slide across;
• loading indicator dem stay still;
• di widget gallery stop scroll by itself an wait fi yuh;
• change tab jump straight to di new view.

Nutten nuh lose from none a it. A loading indicator weh stop still siddung beside di word “A load”, an a dat really tell yuh wah a gwaan.

07Increase Contrast

Text inna di app meet di WCAG AA minimum a 4.5:1 against di surface behind it, inna light an dark, including di label dem pon button an panel. Dat get check automatic every time di app build.

Wid Increase Contrast on, panel border an divider dem get stronger, di palest chart line dem get darker, an di data-quality chip dem tek darker colour.

One limit: inna di light appearance, di colour tick dem pon a data-quality chip weh nuh select paler dan 3:1 unless Increase Contrast on. Di tick dem get count as well as colour, an di chip label always a full-strength text.

08Colour a neva di only signal

Di chart colour dem a di Okabe-Ito palette, pick because people wid di common kind a colour blindness can still tell di colour dem apart. But a palette nuh enough by itself, so nutten inna di app nuh depend pon colour one:

• score band dem different by height as well as colour: a tip-top hour fill up it cell, a good hour shorter, a aright hour shorter again, an a nuh-good hour a one thin line. (Yuh can turn dis off unda Preference dem → Look an feel.)
• a tide location data quality get count, nuh colour: one, two or three tick;
• di dataset chip weh pick fill in, nuh just tint;
• wind direction a one arrow weh point;
• every chart series label inna word, an it high an low mark wid di figure an di time.

09Wah di app nuh have

Two a Apple feature dem nuh apply yah so. No video an no audio nuh deh nowhere inna Tide an Wedda, so nutten nuh deh fi captions or audio descriptions fi describe.

An three ting wi radda tell yuh dan mek yuh find out: di chart, score grid an tab bar nuh scale dem text wid Larger Text; widget an complication dem keep fix text size; an wi nuh test VoiceOver braille output pon a braille display wiself.

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