We strongly believe that nothing should get in the way of your users reading your content, so we've worked hard to make your content work on different platforms and devices, and make it available when you've got no connection.

This extends to making our apps usable for everyone, including people with disabilities. Apple and Android offer a veritable suite of accessibility features, and we've done our best to integrate with as many of them as possible, below is an explanation of these features and how they work with Pugpig Bolt.

iOS

• VoiceOver enables visually-impaired users to navigate their devices, with the operating system reading out not only the content but also navigation elements and menu items. VoiceOver is fully-supported on Pugpig Bolt, with users able to navigate the app, manage their account and interact with all kinds of content cards.
• Dynamic Text and Bold Text allow users to increase the size and weight of text throughout their device in order to improve readability. Both of these features are now supported in Bolt for iOS. You can find more detail on how text resizing works in our Text Resize Settings article.
• Inverted colours and Smart Invert are designed to aid users with certain types of visual impairment. Inverted colours is a system-wide feature and thus works across Bolt for iOS. Smart Invert seeks to determine precisely which parts of the screen should be inverted, this also works as expected in our apps.
• Guided Access is aimed at teachers, parents or anybody who intends to let somebody else use their device with certain restrictions, such as disabled buttons or areas of the screen. Guided access is fully supported in Pugpig Bolt.
• Speak Screen is in many ways a simpler version of VoiceOver. With this feature, a user can simply swipe down on the screen with two fingers to have the content of that screen read out to them, with controls to pause, stop and change the reading speed. Speak screen is fully supported in Bolt for iOS.
• Speech input offers another way to enter text into the app. While text input isn't widely used in our apps, it is required for entering login details. Currently speech input is not supported in Bolt for iOS, but we might review this in future.
• Switch control integrates your device with alternative input devices, including the camera. Switch control is fully supported by Bolt for iOS. It's entirely possible to navigate the app and read content by simply moving one's head to the left or right.

ANDROID

• TalkBack (or the OEM equivalent) enables visually-impaired users to navigate their devices, with the operating system reading out not only the content but also navigation elements and menu items. This is fully-supported on Pugpig Bolt, with users able to navigate the app, manage their account and interact with all kinds of content cards.
• Dynamic Text and High Contrast Text allow users to increase the size and styling of text throughout their device in order to improve readability. Both of these features are now supported in Bolt for Android. You can find more detail on how text resizing works in our Text Resize Settings article.
• Inverted colours are designed to aid users with certain types of visual impairment. Inverted colours is a system-wide feature and thus works across Bolt for Android.
• Colour correction helps those with colour-blindness better see the true colours of their device and the content it displays. This is fully supported in Bolt for Android.
• Guided Access is aimed at teachers, parents or anybody who intends to let somebody else use their device with certain restrictions, such as disabled buttons or areas of the screen. Guided access is fully supported in Pugpig Bolt.
• Select to speak is in many ways a simpler version of TalkBack. With this feature, a user can simply swipe down on the screen with two fingers to have the content of that screen read out to them, with controls to pause, stop and change the reading speed. Speak screen is fully supported in Bolt for Android.
• Speech input offers another way to enter text into the app. While text input isn't widely used in our apps, it is required for entering login details. Currently speech input is not supported in Bolt for Android, but we may review this in future.
• Switch control integrates your device with alternative input devices, including the camera. Switch control is fully supported by Bolt for Android. It's entirely possible to navigate the app and read content by simply moving one's head to the left or right.

WEB

Pugpig Bolt's web app has also seen significant accessibility improvements, particularly around keyboard navigation and screenreader support.

• Keyboard navigation allows users to navigate the app without a mouse. This includes navigating image galleries with the left/right arrow keys, using the scrubber/content navigator, and scrolling through timelines and content views.
• Screenreader support has been improved across several areas. Users can now navigate tabs in the hamburger menu, exit the share pop-up, and access the content navigator (scrubber) using VoiceOver or equivalent screenreaders.
• Focus management has been improved so that interactive elements such as image galleries, the content navigator, and navigation menus receive appropriate focus when activated.

Outside of the accessibility commitments to our actual products, we're also aware that content itself needs to be optimised for accessibility. We support content text resize in the apps so users can change this to sort their needs. We're able to advise on where the division between product and content lies, and in many cases on what changes need to be made in order for your content to work as expected with the above-mentioned features.