Accessibility

Settings for this website

These switches change this website only, and they take effect straight away. The site already follows your device’s reduced motion and increased contrast settings, so use these when you want less motion, bigger text or more contrast here without changing the settings for your whole phone or computer.

What we aim for

We aim to meet WCAG 2.1 level AA in the Luney app on iPhone and Android, and on this website. Neither fully meets it yet. Most of the app does, and the gaps we know about are listed below.

In the app

Settings, › Accessibility has five settings. Bold text, Increase contrast and Reduce motion turn on by themselves when the matching setting is on for your whole phone, and Text size works on top of your phone’s own text size:

• Text size makes Luney’s text bigger or smaller, and it follows you to every device you’re signed in on.
• Bold text makes every line in the app heavier.
• Increase contrast darkens muted text and strengthens borders and dividers in whichever theme you use, without changing its colours. With it on, muted text has a contrast ratio of at least 7:1. Without it, muted text is at least 4.5:1 in every theme.
• Reduce motion stops decorative animation, like heart bursts, highlight pulses, shimmering placeholders, bouncing typing dots and confetti, shows animated profile pictures and reel previews as still pictures, and new screens appear straight away instead of sliding across.
• Soft Mode tones down accent colours and gradients, calms animation the way Reduce motion does, and makes vibrations lighter. It doesn’t change photos, videos or what people post, and it’s also in Settings, › Theme.

Across the rest of the app, buttons tell VoiceOver and TalkBack what they are and what state they’re in, like selected or off. When someone adds a description to a photo, screen readers read it out. The app also follows your phone’s own text size, up to 1.5 times the default.

On this website

• The text is set in Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, a typeface the Braille Institute designed for people with low vision.
• Every text colour meets WCAG AA contrast on every background we use it on. The faintest one, for captions and dates, is above 5:1 and never smaller than 14 pixels.
• Every page starts with a Skip to content link, and a 3-pixel ring shows where the keyboard focus is.
• Buttons and links are at least 44 pixels tall, except links inside a sentence.
• The moon’s glow, the stars and the light on the water move slowly. Turn on reduced motion, on your device or with the switch above, and they stop, along with every transition.

What doesn’t work well yet

• Text stops growing at 1.5 times the default size from your phone’s setting, or 1.7 times if you also turn up Text size in the app, so screens don’t fall apart. If you need text bigger than that, the app can’t do it yet.
• GIFs, stickers and animated emoji in chats keep moving with Reduce motion or Soft Mode on.
• Reels don’t get automatic captions. Creators can put text on a reel, but nothing transcribes what people say in it.
• GIFs and stickers from outside libraries come without descriptions for screen readers.
• A few older screens haven’t been fully checked with a keyboard and a screen reader yet.

We work through this list one release at a time, and we note accessibility changes in the changelog.

Tell us what’s in your way

Email [email protected] with “Accessibility” in the subject line, or open a ticket in the app from Settings, › Support Tickets. Tell us what you were trying to do, on which screen, and which assistive technology you use, if any.

Someone on our team reads every message, and we try to reply within a few days. If something stops you using a safety feature, say so, and we’ll treat it as urgent.

For more on the app’s settings, read the accessibility guide.