Accessibility

Serivore for iPhone — last updated: September 20, 2026

1.Our approach

Serivore is made by one person, and it aims to follow Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines on accessibility: use the system’s controls, colours and text styles wherever possible, so that every assistive feature built into iOS keeps working without the app having to reinvent it. This page says what works today, what does not yet, and how to tell us when something gets in your way. It is updated with each release that changes the picture.

2.Vision

VoiceOver. Your library, show and episode pages, the feed, profiles and Settings can be read and navigated with VoiceOver. Most buttons that show only an icon carry a spoken label, and purely decorative images are skipped. The star rating is a single adjustable control: swipe up or down to change it, hear the value (“2.5 out of 5”), and clear it from the actions rotor. The “mark as watched” buttons in episode lists are labelled, and each episode row is a real button that VoiceOver activates with a double tap.

Dark and light mode. By default, Serivore follows the appearance set in iOS. Settings › Appearance lets you force Dark or Light regardless of the system, for example to keep a dark screen at night while the rest of your phone switches.

Text size. All text in the app follows the size you set in iOS Settings › Accessibility › Display & Text Size, including the larger accessibility sizes: text styles everywhere, and the few fixed elements (medals, star controls, the numbers on the Stats screen) scale with it. Nothing is smaller than 11 points at the default size. Titles and labels wrap onto a second line where the layout allows; where it cannot (pills, tab labels), they shrink slightly rather than being cut.

Colour. Watched episodes are shown with a check mark, ratings with stars and numbers, reactions with their emoji: state is never carried by a colour alone.

3.Motion

Serivore has a few animations: badges unlock with a short celebration, medals turn on their detail page, lists shimmer while they load, and toasts slide in. With Reduce Motion on in iOS Settings, the celebration becomes a brief still image, medals stay put, placeholders stop pulsing and toasts simply fade. The setting takes effect immediately, without relaunching. Turning a medal with your finger, and the shine that plays when you tap it, still work: they only happen when you ask.

4.Hearing

Serivore contains no audio and no video, so nothing in the app depends on sound. Actions such as marking an episode, rating it or unlocking a badge are confirmed on screen and, if your iPhone allows it, with a light haptic tap — never with a sound only. Notifications use the standard iOS alert, which follows your sound, vibration and Flash for Alerts settings.

5.Motor and cognitive

Voice Control, Switch Control, AssistiveTouch, Full Keyboard Access. Because the app uses standard buttons, lists and toggles, these iOS features work throughout, the star rating included. Nothing in the app requires a gesture with a time limit or more than one finger. If half-star precision makes the rating control fiddly, Settings › Application › Rating precision switches it to whole stars, which doubles the size of each target.

Reading comfort. Comments on an episode you have not watched yet sit behind a spoiler warning, and comments their authors flag as spoilers are marked as such. Release reminders can be switched off one kind at a time, and a single show can be muted from its page, so the app never has to be noisier than you want.

Languages. The app is available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Turkish, Ukrainian, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, Slovak, Norwegian (Bokmål) and Greek, and follows the language order set in iOS.

6.Known limitations and what comes next

The three gaps listed here in September 2026 — Reduce Motion, the star rating and watch buttons with VoiceOver, fixed text sizes — are fixed in the September update. What remains, tracked publicly:

• The large medal on a badge’s own page keeps a fixed size: scaled with the largest text sizes it would no longer fit the screen.
• At the largest accessibility sizes, the badges grid shows one badge per row, and a few short labels shrink instead of wrapping.
• Reduce Motion keeps the medal’s tap-triggered shine, because it is something you ask for; tell us if you would rather it were off too.

Each fix is announced on the What’s new page.

7.This website

The pages on serivore.app are plain HTML without scripts, work with screen readers and browser zoom, and follow your system’s dark or light setting. The web app at web.serivore.app uses the same account as the iPhone app.

8.Tell us

If a feature of the app is hard or impossible to use with the assistive technology you rely on, please write to contact@serivore.app with “Accessibility” in the subject, and tell us which feature, which iOS setting or assistive technology, and your iOS and app versions (Settings, at the bottom of the screen). Accessibility reports are treated as bugs, not as suggestions: they go to the front of the queue.

Serivore requires an iPhone with iOS 18.6 or later.