Accessibility

Supported features

On iPhone and iPad, pawpaw supports:

• VoiceOver
• Voice Control
• Larger Text
• Dark Interface
• Differentiate Without Color Alone
• Sufficient Contrast
• Reduced Motion

Captions and Audio Descriptions don't apply. pawpaw has no dialogue or video, and its prey sounds are made for cats.

VoiceOver

• Every menu, button and setting has a label.
• The play field uses direct touch, so your cat can still play while VoiceOver is on, including catching the critter between rounds to ask for another one.
• VoiceOver reads out the countdown and the results when a round ends.

Owner-only actions

Some buttons need a 1.5-second press and hold, so a paw can't press them by accident:

• Leaving a game
• Play Again on the results card
• Skipping the intro
• Deleting a cat
• Resetting stats

With VoiceOver, you don't need to hold. Swipe up or down to pick an action from the Actions rotor instead, such as Leave game, Play again, Delete cat, Reset stats or the action to skip the intro.

Voice Control

Every button can be named out loud. For the owner-only actions above, say "Show actions for" followed by the button's name, then pick the action, such as Leave game.

Larger Text

• Text follows your device's text size, up to 200%.
• Screens scroll when the text no longer fits.
• In a game, the score and timer grow only a little, so your cat's play field stays the same size. The results card shows the score at your full text size.
• Where text can't grow, such as the house button in a game and the segmented pickers, touch and hold it to see it larger in the Large Content Viewer.

Dark Interface

The whole app is always dark, which is easier on your eyes and your cat's.

Differentiate Without Color Alone

• Selected items show a checkmark, a border or a fill, not just a different colour.
• Every critter has its own shape, so you can tell them apart without colour.

Sufficient Contrast

All text has a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1, including the dark text on orange buttons.

Reduced Motion

When Reduce Motion is on in your device settings:

• The intro's animations and error shakes are turned off.
• Practice catches in the intro fade instead of spinning and growing.

Your cat's game keeps its moving critters and short catch bursts, because they're made for your cat.

Feedback

If something in pawpaw is hard to use with an accessibility feature, you're welcome to report it on GitHub Issues. pawpaw is a small personal project, so there's no promise of a reply or a fix. Issues are public, so don't include personal information. For other questions, see the Help page.