Accessibility

Every board, your way

Words with Mia follows the accessibility settings on your device. Below you can see what each one changes for you, with the names the App Store uses.

On the App Store

Seven features that carry the whole game

Apple lists, for every app, which features support everything in it, from the first level to the daily challenge. These are the ones for Words with Mia, in App Store order.

  • VoiceOver

    With VoiceOver you play every board by tapping: pick the first and the last letter, and the word in between is selected. Every letter tells you where it is and what state it is in, and a found word is read out. The special levels have their own spoken form too, and a celebration goes straight to its final picture.

  • Voice Control

    Every button is named exactly like the text on it, so you simply say what you see. On the board you pick a word with two taps instead of dragging, and zooming works with buttons instead of pinching. Dictation works in every text field.

  • Larger Text

    Larger text, up to 200 percent

    Make the text on your device bigger and the text in the game grows with it, up to twice the normal size. Word lists, explanations and messages flow on without anything getting cut off. Headings grow a little more gently, so there is room left for what you are reading.

  • Dark Interface

    Dark mode

    When your device is set to dark, the whole game is dark, including the boards and the special levels. In Settings you choose System, Light or Dark yourself. If your device switches while you play, the game waits until your level is done.

  • Differentiate Without Color Alone

    Not by color alone

    Color is never the only sign. A found word is crossed out in the list, not just turned green. With the color-blind aid on, every found letter gets a check mark and your selection on the board gets a second sign next to the color as well.

  • Sufficient Contrast

    Turn on Increase Contrast and the orange buttons and the green found letters get a deeper color, so the white text on them stands out sharply. Other accents shift along to a color that is easy to read, in light and in dark.

  • Reduced Motion

    With Reduce Motion on, celebrations jump straight to their final picture, and letters no longer shake, bounce or spin. Whatever does change uses a short, calm transition.

  • Captions

    Not applicable

    The game has no spoken audio and no video, so there is nothing to caption. Everything the game tells you is shown as text on screen.

More help

More that makes playing easier

These go beyond the App Store labels, and you switch most of them on yourself in Settings.

Tap instead of drag

Rather not drag? With this setting you tap the first and the last letter of a word, or go letter by letter in Winding words. It works without a screen reader too.

Easy-read letters

Set the board in Atkinson Hyperlegible, a typeface in which you no longer mix up characters like b and d or I and l.

Bold text, on the board too

With Bold Text on your iPhone or iPad, the letters on the board get heavier too, just like the headings and the body text.

Color-blind aid

With Check mark on found letters, every found letter gets a check mark next to the color, and every state on the board gets a second sign.

Increase Contrast

The game follows that setting on your device right away, even when you turn it on in the middle of a level.

Keyboard and Switch Control on iPad

On iPad you can also play with a hardware keyboard or with Switch Control: you move across the board letter by letter and pick your word that way.

TalkBack on Android

On Android, TalkBack reads the board to you. Every letter tells you where it is, and two double taps pick a word.

Blitz without a countdown

With a screen reader on, Blitz runs a stopwatch instead of a clock that counts down. You pass the level with the usual number of words, and earn gold if you find them all within twice the usual time.

Stuck somewhere?

Does something not work with your assistive technology, or is a setting missing? Email us at support@wordswithmia.com with your device and the features you use. Then we will figure it out together.

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