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Accessibility

Last Updated: August 18, 2026

VerseDB is built for every comic fan, and that includes fans who rely on assistive technology. We want browsing the database, tracking a collection, and discovering new comics to work well with a screen reader, at large text sizes, and with reduced motion — on the web and in our mobile apps.

This page describes what our products currently support, where the gaps are, and how to reach us if something doesn't work for you.

VerseDB for iOS and Android

The VerseDB mobile app supports the following accessibility features. "Support" here means the app's common tasks — signing up, searching the database, adding comics to your collection, managing your pull list, and changing settings — can be completed using each feature.

Screen readers (VoiceOver and TalkBack)

Interactive elements throughout the app carry accessibility labels, roles, and state so that VoiceOver on iOS and TalkBack on Android can announce them meaningfully. Screen changes, scan results, and status updates are announced as they happen.

Voice Control

Because buttons and controls are labeled for screen readers, they can also be addressed by name using Voice Control on iOS and Voice Access on Android.

Larger text

Body and reading text follows your system text-size setting (Dynamic Type on iOS, font size on Android) without limit. Compact interface elements such as badges and chips scale up to 1.5× so they stay usable without breaking the layout.

Dark interface

The app ships with full dark and light themes and can follow your system appearance automatically. Dark is the default.

Sufficient contrast

The app's color palette is tuned so text meets the WCAG AA contrast ratio of 4.5:1 and meaningful glyphs meet 3:1, in both themes.

Differentiate without color alone

Status indicators pair color with a text label or a distinct glyph rather than relying on color by itself.

Reduced motion

Auto-playing animation respects the system Reduce Motion setting. Screen transitions use the platform's native transitions, which honor the setting on their own.

Captions and audio descriptions

The VerseDB app does not contain audio or video content, so these features do not apply. Podcast and video-channel pages in the app are directories — playback happens in the podcast or video app of your choice.

VerseDB on the web

On versedb.com we aim for WCAG 2.1 Level AA as our working standard: semantic HTML, keyboard-reachable controls, visible focus states, labeled form fields, and a color system designed for contrast. The website is under continuous development, and accessibility review is part of that work rather than a one-time audit — some areas are further along than others.

Known limitations

We'd rather be honest about the edges than overstate support:

  • Cover art and comic page imagery comes from publishers and community contributions. We describe images with the metadata we have (title, series, issue number), but the artwork itself is not described.
  • Community-contributed content — reviews, list descriptions, gallery images — may lack alternative text or use formatting we can't fully repair.
  • Data-dense pages such as market-price tables and release calendars are usable with a screen reader but can be slow to navigate. We're working on better summaries and landmarks.

Feedback

If you hit a barrier anywhere in VerseDB — a control a screen reader can't reach, text that won't scale, anything at all — we want to know, and reports like these get prioritized.

Please include the device, operating system, assistive technology you were using, and where in the app or site the problem occurred. We aim to respond within a few business days.