Accessibility in Somehow

Last updated: 26 August 2026

Somehow is built for people who know what needs doing and cannot get started. That is a real barrier, and it is the one this app was designed around. So accessibility here is not a checklist bolted on at the end — the core of the app is an accessibility feature.

The design itself

Somehow shows you one thing at a time and tells you what it is. You do not have to choose a room, rank a list, or decide what matters most before you can begin.

• One task on screen. The full list is there if you want it, and it is never the thing standing between you and starting.
• No screen asks you for more than five choices.
• No timers and no countdowns. A session takes as long as it takes. You can stop in the middle, close the app, come back next week, and pick up where you were. Nothing expires.
• Finishing part of it is finishing. Three tasks done is three tasks done. The app has no word for the rest.
• Skip takes one tap and is never questioned. No confirmation, no reason required, no comment about it afterwards.
• No streaks, no scores, no decline. Time away from the app costs you nothing, and the app never mentions how long you were gone.
• Instructions are one step per line, in plain words, with no jokes at your expense anywhere in the product.

VoiceOver

VoiceOver is supported throughout, and it is free.

• Every button, switch, checkbox and link is labelled.
• Decorative marks and icons are hidden from VoiceOver, so it reads the screen rather than the illustration.
• Photos carry a description of what they show — the room, and when it was taken.
• When you mark a task done and the next one appears, that change is announced. You are not left wondering whether the tap worked.
• Home screen widgets and the Lock Screen card are labelled too, including their buttons.

Automated checks run on every change to the app and will not let a new, unlabelled control ship.

Text size

Somehow follows your phone's text size setting, including the accessibility sizes.

• Body text and task instructions are never capped. They grow as far as you set them.
• Button labels stop growing at twice their normal size, so a row of controls cannot swallow the screen you are trying to read.
• At larger sizes the layout rearranges rather than squeezing: side-by-side becomes stacked, so words are not broken in the middle.

Colour and contrast

• Nothing in Somehow is signalled by colour alone. A finished task carries a checkmark and a line through it. Selected days and options carry a label and a state VoiceOver can read.
• Text and icon contrast is measured automatically on every change to the app, against a WCAG Level AA floor, rather than judged by eye.
• There is no red anywhere in the app, and no warning colour. The app has no state that requires one.
• Nothing flashes, strobes or blinks.

Dark

Somehow has a full dark appearance, not a dimmed version of the light one. You can set it to Dark, Light, or Match phone in Settings.

The screen you spend the most time on — the one showing the task you are doing — is light text on a deep green field in both settings. It does not turn bright when the rest of the app does.

Motion

Somehow has almost no animation, and what it has is functional.

If Reduce Motion is on in your phone's settings, the one animation that scales — the checkmark when you finish a task — does not play at all. It is skipped, not slowed.

Settings also has its own Reduce motion switch, for turning motion off in this app alone. It can turn motion off. It cannot turn motion back on over your phone's setting.

Touch, and feedback you can feel

• Every control is at least 44 points in both directions, the size Apple recommends for a comfortable target.
• Haptics — the small taps you feel when something completes — can be turned off in Settings. With them off, nothing in the app produces one.

Reminders

Reminders are off until you turn them on, and you choose the days and the time.

There is a hard ceiling of three a week, and the default is two. Somehow cannot send you more than that, whatever happens. You can also pick the tone the app writes in: Gentle, Neutral, or Direct.

Sound and video

Somehow contains no video and no audio. There is nothing spoken, nothing to listen to, and no soundtrack — so there is nothing needing captions or audio description. Every word in the app is text on screen, available to VoiceOver.

If that changes, this section changes with it.

Telling us something is wrong

If any part of Somehow is hard to use, or impossible, please say so: somehow@olddognewflex.com.

Every message is read and answered by a person. You do not need to know what the problem is called, and a rough description of what happened is enough. Reports of this kind get fixed ahead of new features.

If you would rather not email, the App Store review page is read too — though we cannot reply there to ask what you meant.

Changes

If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it. Anything that moves out of “not supported yet” will also appear in the app's release notes.