Accessibility statement

Our commitment

Arrel is built on Apple’s standard controls and semantic text styles rather than custom-drawn ones. That is the decision most of what follows rests on: a standard control arrives knowing how to be read aloud, how to grow with your text size and how to be reached by Voice Control, and a hand-drawn one has to be taught each of those separately.

We aim to meet EN 301 549 and the requirements of the European Accessibility Act. We are not claiming full conformance, and the list below says exactly where the gaps are.

Supported today

Each of these is something you can turn on and check for yourself.

• Larger Text

  Every text size, including the accessibility sizes. No font size and no row height in Arrel is hard-coded, so a screen at the largest size reflows rather than clipping.

• Dark Interface

  A full dark theme, with an override in Settings if you would rather not follow the system.

• Reduce Motion

  Honoured throughout. With it on, transitions become fades — nothing slides, scales or springs.

• Differentiate Without Colour

  Every colour-coded figure carries a sign or a symbol as well. No number in Arrel is distinguishable by its colour alone.

• VoiceOver

  Labels throughout, including the charts — a chart is read as its figures rather than skipped over. The screen-by-screen pass has covered Overview and Analytics as of 24 August 2026; every other screen is labelled but has not yet had a pass of its own on device.

• Voice Control

  Rides on the same labels, so it works wherever those are in place.

Not there yet

These are known, and none of them is claimed above until it is fixed.

• Colour contrast is unmeasured

  It has not been through Accessibility Inspector, so we do not claim it passes. Saying nothing is the honest position until it has been measured.

• A dense line chart reads as groups, not points

  A long price history is read by VoiceOver as merged groups of values rather than point by point. The system merges chart elements below a minimum width; the one fix we know of collapses the chart into a single element and takes away stepping through it altogether, which costs more than it gains.

• Most screens await their own VoiceOver pass

  Beyond Overview and Analytics, screens are labelled but have not been walked through on device for reading order, duplicated labels and spoken numbers.

• Full Keyboard Access is not claimed

  Arrel uses standard controls, so much of it works with a keyboard on iPad — but nobody has been through the app that way. It moves to the list above once someone has, and not before.

• Reduce Transparency is not yet honoured

  The app’s translucent surfaces stay translucent with the setting on.

• Captions and audio descriptions: not applicable

  Arrel contains no audio and no video.

How this was assessed

By self-assessment, on device, with VoiceOver running and at the accessibility text sizes — not by a third-party audit. We say so because it is what tells you how much weight the rest of this page carries.

This statement was last reviewed on 24 August 2026, and it is updated when the app changes rather than left to age.

Feedback, and what to do if we don’t help

If something in Arrel blocks you, please tell us at support@arrel.app. A report that names the screen and what you were trying to do is the single most useful thing we receive — it is what moves an item from the second list to the first.

If you are in the European Union and our response is not satisfactory, you can raise the matter with the market surveillance authority responsible for accessibility in your own country.