Accessibility

Text size

Doodly Doodle follows the text size you choose in the Settings app (Display & Brightness, or Accessibility → Display & Text Size), up to the largest accessibility sizes.

• Sheets, menus and lists grow with your text: Settings, Export, Brush Studio, Layers and the rest.
• On iPhone at the accessibility sizes, the Layers sheet lists your layers first, with Layer memory after them and the current layer's controls folded under Layer settings, and its add and edit buttons at the bottom. The status above the page, such as Image layer · Done, grows only to the first accessibility size, so it never covers the page.
• The start screen and Color: at the accessibility sizes the start screen's cards put their picture above the words, and a book's preview shows its start buttons above its pages. The cards in Color (its tour, a lesson, the finished page) scroll when their words need more room than there is, and the numbers stay inside their swatches.
• The top bar keeps its buttons at a fixed size, like the system's own bars, so they don't push each other off screen. At the accessibility sizes it drops the painting's title and the paused time to make room.
• The stroke wheel keeps its size, so every wedge stays within reach. At the accessibility sizes, touch and hold a wedge (a medium, the Eraser, a gauge, Undo, Redo, Tools or Color) or a chip in its rings to see it large, with its name; lift over it to use it. Holding Color there shows it large rather than mixing, and the gauges' numbers are larger. VoiceOver's swipe up or down on Color, or the shade ring, makes the colour lighter or darker.

VoiceOver

Every control has a spoken name, and the ones that change say their state:

• The canvas is Drawing canvas. Its value reads the number of strokes, the paper, the brush and its motion, and whether the view is flipped or the ruler is on.
• The wheel: each medium by name, then Eraser and Eyedropper; Size, Strength, Water, Amount, Speed and Pattern with their values (a motion gauge's tap opens Marks and motion); Undo, Redo, Canvas tools (whose ring holds Hand tool and the other tools, each saying when it's on); and Color, which also says the brush in hand, or Eraser while erasing. While erasing, the bar at the top reads Rub out or Whole strokes, and Done. Folded on iPhone, the wheel is Brush and color.
• Colours are read by name, such as Ultramarine or Ink black; your recent colours as Recent color 1, 2 and so on.
• The top bar: Gallery, Actions, Share, Pages, Play the painting or Pause the painting, Sound, Show timeline, Canvas and paper, Canvas zoom with its percentage, and Layers.
• Notices, such as the layer a brush switched you to, are announced as they appear.

Touch targets

The app's controls are at least 44 by 44 points, including each colour in the palette and each chip in the wheel's rings. Status notes at the top of the page, such as Hand · Done, are buttons of the same height.

Reduce Motion

With Reduce Motion on in the Settings app (Accessibility → Motion):

• Paintings open paused, including the first painting, A quiet breeze. Tap Play when you want them to move; nothing about the painting changes.
• The wheel's rings, the wheel's move to the pencil, and the side controls dimming while you draw all happen without moving.
• Brush, mark and motion previews hold still, each with a faint trail of two later moments, so you can still tell how each one moves.

Seeing the page

• Appearance in Settings sets Light or Dark controls, whatever the system uses.
• Hide interface (Actions, or a four-finger tap) leaves only the painting.
• Controls on right in Settings moves the wheel to the bottom-right corner.