Accessibility

Brightkeep is built primarily for adults over 60, including people living with mild cognitive impairment, low vision, tremor, or hearing loss. Accessibility is not a feature we added — it is the brief.

Our target

We aim to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA, and we design mobile screens to meet Apple's Human Interface accessibility guidance as well.

What we do

• Body text starts at 18px, with a Larger and Largest option in Settings that scales the whole app.
• Text and interface colours are checked for at least 4.5:1 contrast (3:1 for large text and icons).
• Colour is never the only signal: every state also carries an icon, a label, or a shape.
• Every tappable target is at least 44 × 44 points, with generous spacing between them.
• Full keyboard operation with a visible 3px focus ring on every control.
• Semantic headings, landmarks, labelled form fields, and descriptive alt text for screen readers.
• Timing in exercises is forgiving, and every exercise has a visible Exit button so nobody is ever trapped.
• Animation is subtle and fully respects the operating system's "Reduce Motion" setting.
• Plain language throughout: short sentences, familiar words, one instruction at a time.

Known limitations

• A few exercises are inherently visual and timed; they are optional, and your streak only needs three of four activities.
• Charts on the Progress screen convey trends visually. Each is accompanied by plain-language text, but detailed point-by-point reading is not yet exposed to screen readers.
• We do not yet offer spoken narration of exercises. It is on our roadmap.

Tell us about a barrier

If any part of Brightkeep is hard to use, please write to access@brightkeep.app. Tell us what you were trying to do and what got in the way. We aim to reply within five business days and to fix genuine barriers in the next release.

Assessment

This statement reflects internal self-assessment against WCAG 2.1 AA, including keyboard-only passes, contrast auditing, and testing at enlarged text sizes. It is not a third-party certification.