Accessibility

We want everyone to be able to measure with Spanwick. This page says what works today, what is still hard, and how to tell us.

Last reviewed 9 November 2026.

Our aim

We aim for the app and these pages to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA. That is an aim, not a claim: neither has been audited against it, and the limits we know of are listed below.

In the app

• TalkBack. Every button, switch and field has a spoken name, and every reading is read out in words, its margin too (“… metres, about plus or minus … centimetres”, or feet and inches).
• Larger text. The words grow with the font size set on your phone. The big readings and the buttons on the camera view grow a little less (up to one and a half times), so they never cover what you are aiming at.
• Light and dark. The app follows your phone’s dark theme, and every text colour stands out from its background at a contrast of 4.5 to 1 or more.
• Small screens. Every screen works on the smallest Android phones (320 dp wide), with the font at twice its usual size.
• Words as well as colours. A warning is always said in words, never by a colour alone.
• Typing instead of aiming. In the room, any length can be typed from a real tape.
• Cut short, said plainly. If you leave the app mid-measure, it says that the point was dropped when you come back, rather than keeping half a reading.

On these pages

• Each page has one main heading, the same footer and links that say where they go.
• They work from a narrow phone to a wide screen without sideways scrolling, follow your light or dark setting, and can be zoomed.

What is still hard

• The camera tape needs the phone aimed at each end of what you measure. TalkBack reads each step and each reading, but the aiming itself is visual.
• The photo measure needs taps on the photo itself, at the sheet’s corners and at the two ends of what you measure.

Each of these is on our list to improve.

Tell us

If something in Spanwick or on these pages is hard to use, write to spanwick@dreamyhomestyle.com: say what you were trying to do and, if you like, which phone and settings you use. A person reads every message.