Accessibility

We build against WCAG 2.1 Level AA, the standard most accessibility law points at. We are not going to tell you we've fully met it. Elovox has not been through an independent audit, and no product this size is perfectly conformant on every screen. Treat this page as a description of the work and the gaps, not a certificate.

These are things that exist in the product today, not plans:

• Keyboard access. Every page opens with a "Skip to content" link, and interactive controls are real buttons and links rather than clickable boxes, so tab, enter and escape behave the way you expect.
• Visible focus. Focus rings are styled rather than removed, so you can always see where you are when navigating by keyboard.
• Screen reader labeling. Icon-only controls carry text labels, decorative graphics are hidden from assistive tech, and status changes that only show as a spinner or a color are also announced as text.
• Reduced motion. The site has a lot of movement in it, and we switch it off if your system is set to reduce motion. The animated pieces fall back to a plain static layout rather than disappearing, so you don't lose any content by turning motion off.
• Contrast. We've measured the contrast of text against its background and fixed the places that failed, including our own brand orange, which wasn't readable enough for text and is now only used where it isn't text.
• Nothing is explained by color alone. Where a color carries meaning — a strong moment in your transcript, a badge you haven't earned yet — the same thing is also written out for a screen reader.
• Touch targets. The controls you actually operate — the record button, the navigation, the app's tab bar — are sized for a thumb rather than a cursor.
• You always get text. Every practice session returns a written transcript of what you said alongside the coaching, so nothing important is delivered as audio only, and you can export all of it as a file.
• The camera is off unless you turn it on. Video is never required to use Elovox, and no analysis depends on you being visible.
• Automated checks in our linting flag malformed ARIA and missing image descriptions. They're a floor, not an audit — they warn us, and they catch a narrow set of problems.

The honest part. These are limitations we know about:

• Elovox is built around speaking out loud into a microphone. That is the product, and it means the core experience is not usable if you cannot speak, or cannot speak in a way automated transcription handles well. Speech recognition is measurably worse for some accents, some speech disorders, and some deaf and hard-of-hearing speakers, and the coaching sits on top of that transcript. We have not solved this.
• The coaching itself judges delivery — pace, pauses, filler words, and, with the camera on, posture and expression. Those are norms, and they are not neutral. If you stammer, use a communication device, are autistic, or move differently, the feedback can be wrong or unkind in ways we have not fully accounted for.
• We have not yet run formal testing with disabled users, and we have not commissioned an independent audit. Our checks so far are automated tooling, keyboard testing, and our own review.
• The Daily Minute cuts off at sixty seconds, and that limit can't be extended or turned off. It's the same exercise for everyone, but a fixed time limit is a barrier if you need longer, and WCAG asks that limits be adjustable. Everything else in the app is untimed.
• The recording countdown isn't announced. If you're using a screen reader, nothing tells you the sixty seconds is running out — the only warning is a color change, which is no use to you. We know about this one and it's on the list to fix.
• Some secondary links, including the ones in the site footer, are smaller than the target size WCAG asks for. The main controls aren't.
• Elovox is only available in English at the moment.
• Some parts of the app have had more accessibility attention than others. The public pages and the core practice flow have had the most; newer screens have had the least.

A few things that may help. You can practice with the camera off, which most people do. Apart from the Daily Minute, nothing is on a sixty-second clock — a practice run can go up to ten minutes, and you stop it whenever you're done. Your transcript and report stay in your history, so you can read the feedback at your own pace rather than taking it in live. And you can delete any session, or your whole account, from your account settings.

This is the part we actually want you to use. If any part of Elovox is unusable with your assistive technology, or the product assumes something about you that isn't true, email elovox.app@gmail.com with what you were trying to do and what happened. Put “Accessibility” in the subject line and it gets read first.

We aim to reply within 5 business days, and to tell you honestly whether we can fix it, when, or that we can't. If you need something from Elovox in another format in the meantime, ask and we'll find a way to get it to you.

We update this page when the product changes, in both directions: a limitation that gets fixed comes off the list, and a new one that we find goes on it. The date at the top moves when it does.