Accessibility Tips

Kade is blind and built Kade-AI to actually be pleasant with a screen reader — not just technically usable. These tips help you get the most out of it on VoiceOver (Mac/iPhone) and NVDA (Windows).

The big ones first

• Use the headings to jump around. Every page here, and the chat itself, uses real headings. In NVDA, press H to hop heading to heading; in VoiceOver, use the rotor set to Headings.
• Replies get announced. When the AI answers, the new text is marked as a live update, so your screen reader can read it without you hunting for it.
• You always know if it's still working. Your screen reader hears "Working on a reply" the moment you send, a quiet "Still working" reminder if a long answer (or a bunch of tool use) takes a while, and "Reply ready" the second it finishes. No more guessing whether it's thinking or done.
• Prefer listening? Turn on auto-play (Settings → Speech) so replies read themselves aloud in a chosen voice — that's separate from your screen reader and often nicer for long answers. Full details on Talking & Listening.

On these help pages

• There's a "Skip to main content" link as the very first thing on every page — activate it to jump straight past the navigation.
• The page you're on is marked as current in the section menu, so you always know where you are.
• The Cheat Sheet is a real table with proper row and column headers — navigate it cell by cell with your screen reader's table commands.

Little comforts worth switching on

• Completion chime: Settings → General → Accessibility has an optional soft chime when a reply finishes — nice when you've tabbed away.
• Skip straight to typing: there's a "skip to message box" link at the top of the chat, so you never have to walk the whole sidebar.
• Webpages, without the junk: paste any link and say "read this to me" — the AI pulls just the article text, no ads or menus, in proper reading order.

Low vision? Three switches made for you

• High contrast (true black): Settings → General → Accessibility → "High contrast (true black)" — pure black background, bright white text, stronger borders. Turning it on switches you to dark mode automatically.
• Easy-read font: same place — pick Lexend (designed for low-vision readability) or OpenDyslexic (weighted letters that resist flipping). Code and technical text stay in their normal font.
• Line spacing: same place — Relaxed or Loose gives lines room to breathe, which often matters more than raw text size.
• Reading view: on any AI reply, the book-icon button opens the reply full-screen in big print with nothing else on screen. Close button or Escape gets you back.

Free iPhone features that pair well with this place

These are Apple features already on your phone — nothing to install, just worth knowing about:

• Sound Recognition (Settings → Accessibility → Sound Recognition): your iPhone listens for fire alarms, doorbells, sirens, a crying baby, and taps you with a notification. Works alongside everything here.
• Share Accessibility Settings (iOS 26): temporarily push your exact VoiceOver, text-size, and display settings onto someone else's iPhone via AirDrop — great when you're handed a family member's phone.
• VoiceOver Activities (iOS 26): per-app VoiceOver profiles — set a different speech rate or verbosity just for this app versus the rest of your phone.
• Image Explorer (iOS 26): Apple's own on-device photo describing inside Photos and Safari. Handy as a quick fallback — though Describe here is conversational, remembers context, and takes follow-up questions, which Apple's can't.
• "Hey Siri" smart-home basics: if you have any HomeKit devices, "Hey Siri, good morning" scenes and light control already work hands-free, completely separate from this site — no setup needed here.

iPhone home-screen tip

If you've added the site to your home screen, iPhones tend to re-ask for microphone permission often when you use voice input. That's an Apple limitation (not fixable from here) — just tap "Allow" again. See When Something Breaks.

Pictures and screen readers

When you have the AI make an image, also ask it to describe the picture in words — it'll happily give you a full, detailed description so the visual isn't lost on you.