Accessibility

Last updated: June 26, 2026

The short version: the people who track symptoms most are often living with a chronic illness or disability, so Symptora is built to work with assistive technology from day one. It’s built on Apple’s accessibility frameworks and tested with them, and anything that doesn’t work with a screen reader or large text gets treated as a bug.

Why this matters to us

A symptom journal is only useful if you can use it on a bad day, when your eyes are tired, your hands hurt, or you’re relying on a screen reader. If it fails you on those days, it fails you when it matters, so accessibility is part of how every screen gets built.

Works with VoiceOver

Symptora is built for full VoiceOver support, Apple’s built-in screen reader:

Every screen reads aloud, so you can navigate and log without seeing the display.
The calendar announces each day along with the symptoms you logged on it.
Day-list entries are read as one clear sentence, not a jumble of separate labels.
Buttons and controls say what they do and what state they’re in.

Charts you can hear

Trends shouldn’t be locked behind eyesight. Symptora’s trends chart supports VoiceOver Audio Graphs: step through it point by point, or play the whole thing as sound. The pitch rises and falls with your data, so you can hear the shape of a trend.

Scales to how you see

Dynamic Type — text scales with your iPhone’s text-size setting across the app, and the calendar stays legible at large sizes instead of clipping or overlapping.
Light, Dark & contrast aware — Symptora follows your system appearance and stays readable either way, including a warm Mocha theme for lower-glare reading.

Less friction, by design

Some of the choices that make Symptora easy also lower real barriers for people with fatigue, pain, limited fine-motor control, or memory and focus challenges:

Two-tap logging — capture a symptom in seconds, with no exact time to fiddle with.
Type or dictate — add a note by typing, or speak it with on-device dictation.
No account, no setup — nothing to sign up for, remember, or log into.
Gentle reminders — optional daily nudges so keeping the record up doesn’t rely on memory.

How we build it

We treat VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support as requirements and test with them as we build. Accessibility is ongoing work; Symptora targets the latest iOS and isn’t formally certified or audited. The standard is simple, though: if something is hard or impossible to use with assistive technology, that’s a bug, and we fix it like one.

Found a barrier? Tell us

If anything in Symptora is hard to use with a screen reader, large text, or any assistive technology, we want to know. Email support@symptora.app and tell us what you were doing, the assistive technology you use, and your iOS version. We read every message.