Accessibility
Making a mixtape should be something anyone can do. Mixtape Cat is built on Apple's accessibility features rather than its own parallel system, so the settings you already use across iOS work here too — and this page is a plain account of what we support, what we know isn't perfect yet, and how to tell us when we've got it wrong.
What the app supports
These are the features we've declared on our App Store listing for iPhone and iPad. Turn them on in Settings → Accessibility on your device.
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VoiceOver
Every control and piece of content is labelled for the screen reader, decorative artwork is skipped rather than announced, and track rows read as a single phrase instead of a scatter of fragments. The playback scrubber announces its position — "1 minute 23 of 3 minutes 45."
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Voice Control
Because every control carries a clear name, you can drive the app by voice — "Tap Play", "Tap Add tag", "Tap Edit profile."
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Larger Text
Text through the app scales with your preferred size, and screens reflow at the largest settings so labels don't get squeezed into a column two words wide.
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Dark Interface
The app follows your system appearance rather than forcing its own, in both light and dark.
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Differentiate Without Colour
Nothing is signalled by colour alone. Every state — a song already added, a tape over the 90-minute limit, a badge still locked — carries a distinct shape or words as well as a colour.
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Sufficient Contrast
Text uses system colours that hold their contrast in both appearances. Where a cassette title sits on a tape colour you picked, the app works out whether black or white letters are more readable on that exact shade.
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Reduced Motion
With Reduce Motion on, transitions snap instead of sliding and the boombox sits still while it plays, rather than rocking in time.
What we know isn't perfect
We'd rather tell you these up front than let you find them.
- The cassette label is artwork. A tape's title is painted onto the cassette image, so it doesn't grow with the Larger Text setting the way the rest of the app does. VoiceOver reads the title and song count, and the same title appears as ordinary, scalable text on the tape's own screen.
- Decorating is a visual, freehand activity. Drawing on a label and placing stickers works by dragging a finger across the canvas, and we haven't found a way to make that genuinely equivalent without sight. Everything else about a tape — building it, naming it, choosing its colour, sharing it, capturing someone else's — works without ever opening the decoration screen.
- Music playback belongs to Apple Music. Songs stream through your own Apple Music subscription, so whatever restrictions you've set there — including Screen Time limits on explicit music — apply inside Mixtape Cat too. The app also has its own Hide explicit content switch in Settings.
This website
The site aims to meet WCAG 2.2 Level AA. It uses proper headings and landmarks, a skip link to jump past the navigation, visible focus outlines for keyboard use, and text that reflows when you zoom. The neon backdrop is decorative and hidden from screen readers, and it stops animating when your device asks for reduced motion. We test as we build rather than to a certificate, so if something here trips you up, we want to know.
Tell us what's not working
If any part of Mixtape Cat is hard or impossible to use, please tell us — it's the fastest way for us to fix it, and we read every message. Include the device and the accessibility features you use if you can; it helps us reproduce the problem.
Put "Accessibility" in the subject line and it comes straight to us. We aim to reply within five working days.
Last reviewed
This statement was last reviewed on , and covers Mixtape Cat 1.0 for iPhone and iPad. We'll update it as the app changes.