Accessibility

VoiceOver

Supported on iPhone and Apple Watch. The countdown is spoken as a duration, such as “27 seconds left”, and does not read out every tick. Timer rows read the name, duration and rounds, with a separate Start button. Steppers have more and less buttons named after what they change. Decorative icons are hidden, and the undo notice is announced.

Voice Control

Mostly supported on iPhone. Controls have names you can speak, for example “Tap Start Leg day rehab”. One gap: you cannot yet end a workout early by voice, because ending is a swipe from the top of the timer screen. An End workout button on the paused screen is coming in the next update. Apple Watch does not offer Voice Control.

Larger Text

Mostly supported on iPhone and Apple Watch. Text follows your Larger Text setting. On iPhone, rows, steppers and the editor stack vertically at the largest sizes, and the finish screen scrolls. On Apple Watch the countdown already fills the width, so it stays the same size while the text around it grows. Two gaps at the largest accessibility sizes: on iPhone the countdown gets smaller as the text around it grows, and on a smaller Apple Watch the rest screen can feel cramped. Both are being fixed in the next update.

Dark Interface

Supported on iPhone and Apple Watch. The iPhone follows your light or dark setting, and the timer screen is always dark on iPhone. Apple Watch is always dark.

Differentiate Without Colour Alone

Supported on iPhone and Apple Watch. Work, rest, paused and done are shown as words as well as colour. The selected voice has a tick, and the steps for the left and right sides on Apple Watch have letter badges.

Reduced Motion

Supported on iPhone and Apple Watch. With Reduce Motion on, the button press scale, notice slide, list and editor animations and timer transitions are turned off or become fades on iPhone. On Apple Watch, phase changes, the controls sliding back, the finish transition, the countdown roll and the heart pulse are turned off.

Audio cues, spoken cues and haptics

Every change between work and rest is marked three ways, so you can follow a workout without looking at the screen. Sound and Spoken cues are separate switches in Intervale's settings. Spoken cues use the voice you choose, and need Sound to be on. Cues keep playing with the screen locked, and play even when the ringer switch is on silent.

Haptics have their own switch. On iPhone they also respond when you use the steppers and workout controls. On Apple Watch your wrist is tapped at every change, even with your wrist down. The Haptic strength setting, in Intervale's settings on iPhone under Apple Watch, offers Standard, Strong and Extra strong, and choosing one on the watch plays a sample.

Reporting an accessibility problem

If something in Intervale is hard to use with an accessibility feature, email support@intervale.app. Say which feature you use, the screen, and your iPhone or Apple Watch model and software version. I will look into it and fix it.