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Tales By You

Draft — counsel review required. This document describes how Tales By You is built, but it has not been reviewed by a lawyer and is not yet binding. Do not rely on it as legal advice.

Accessibility

Families read in very different ways. This page says what we support today and, just as importantly, what we have not finished.

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What is built in today

  • Text size control with four steps, applied to the whole app and the reader.
  • An opt-in dyslexia-friendly typeface that uses fonts already on your device, so it cannot fail to load.
  • A high-contrast mode and a reduced-motion mode, both of which also respect your operating system setting.
  • A bedtime theme that lowers stimulation and shifts colour away from blue light.
  • Full keyboard navigation, a skip link, visible focus rings, and generous touch targets.
  • Read-aloud using your device's built-in speech, with adjustable speed, captions, and a full transcript.
  • Descriptive alternative text on illustrations, and page text that is real selectable text rather than baked into an image.

You can change all of these from the accessibility button in the header, and your choices are saved to your account rather than to one browser.

What is not finished

  • We have not completed an independent accessibility audit, so we do not claim conformance to any WCAG level.
  • Word-level highlighting during read-aloud is only shown when the timing data is genuinely accurate. On device voices it often is not, so it stays off.
  • Screen reader testing has been done with keyboard and automated checks, but not yet across the full range of assistive technology.
  • Spanish and right-to-left layouts are prepared in the code but not released.

Deliberate choices

We do not block pinch-to-zoom anywhere. We do not use colour alone to carry meaning. We do not put moving or flashing decoration into a child's reading view. The reader contains no advertising, no upsell, and no links out of the story.

Tell us what is missing

If something here does not work for your family, please write to us through the contact page and describe what you were trying to do. Accessibility reports are treated as bugs, not as feature requests.