Accessibility statement

FlowRead is an accessibility tool, so we hold ourselves to a high bar. Here is what we have built in — and how to tell us where we fall short.

What's built in

Keyboard — the whole app works without a mouse. Space plays and pauses. Arrow keys step through words. Up arrow replays the sentence. Tabs respond to arrow keys. Focus is always visible.
Screen readers — controls are labelled, state changes are announced, and the rapidly-changing word display is hidden from screen readers so it doesn't flood them.
Colour and contrast — interface text meets WCAG 2.1 AA contrast in both light and dark mode. Reading backgrounds include a fully custom colour picker for visual-stress needs, and word colours adjust automatically to stay readable.
Motion — if your system asks for reduced motion, FlowRead switches its animations off.
Fonts — Lexend, Atkinson Hyperlegible, and OpenDyslexic are built in, with adjustable size and letter spacing.
Hearing the text — optional read-aloud speaks each word as it is shown, using your device's own voice.
Touch — controls are sized for fingers on phones.

Scanned (image-only) PDFs can't be read yet — there is no text in them to extract.
Read-aloud voices vary by device; some sound more natural than others.
The rapid word display itself is a visual technique; the read-aloud option and sentence view are the alternatives we offer today.

If anything about FlowRead is hard for you to use, that is a bug, and we want to know. See the About page for contact details.