Accessibility

Aphasia Studio is built for people with aphasia.

Reading can be hard. Tapping can be hard. We design for that.

This page says what we do, what still needs work, and how to tell us when something is hard to use.

Our goal

We want every person with aphasia to be able to practice here on their own.

We follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA. This is the standard most websites use.

Right now the site partly meets that standard. Most of the practice exercises meet it. Some older pages and some third-party parts do not yet. The list is below.

What we built in

  • 👆 Big buttons. Every tap target is at least 44 pixels. Most are bigger.
  • 🔊 Tap to hear. Words, sentences, and instructions have audio. You do not have to read to practice.
  • 🖼️ Pictures with words. Exercises pair a picture, the written word, and the spoken word.
  • 📝 Plain language. Short sentences. One idea per line. Common words.
  • 🎯 One action at a time. Each screen asks for one thing. The buttons stay in the same place.
  • ⌨️ Keyboard use. You can move through exercises with the Tab key. The focused button is outlined.
  • 🗣️ Screen readers. Buttons and pictures have labels. Exercises announce what changed.
  • 🌙 Less motion. If your device is set to “reduce motion”, animations are turned off.
  • 🔍 Zoom. Pages are built to work zoomed in, on a phone or a computer.
  • 🎨 High contrast. Text and buttons are designed to meet the WCAG contrast rules.
  • 🐢 Take your time. Only one exercise uses a timer (naming as many words as you can in a category). Every other exercise has no clock.
  • 🇪🇸 Spanish. The practice exercises are available in Spanish.

What still needs work

We are honest about this. Here is what we know:

  • 💳 Checkout and billing pages are built by other companies (MemberPress and Stripe). We style them, but we do not control everything.
  • 🍪 The cookie banner comes from another company (Complianz).
  • 📰 Some older blog posts have pictures without full descriptions. We are adding them.
  • 📄 Workbook PDFs are made for printing. They are not fully tagged for screen readers yet.
  • 🎤 Speech recognition uses your browser’s built-in tool. It works best in Chrome and Safari. It may not work in every browser.
  • ▶️ Videos hosted on YouTube use YouTube’s player and captions.

How we check

  • We build every new exercise to WCAG 2.1 AA before it goes live.
  • We test on real phones and tablets, not only on a computer.
  • We watch how people with aphasia use the site and fix what gets stuck.
  • We use browser accessibility checkers and keyboard-only testing.

Tell us when something is hard

Something hard to use? Tell us. We want to know. We will reply within 5 business days.

A caregiver or family member can write for you. That is welcome.

Technical details

Aphasia Studio is built with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WAI-ARIA. It works in current versions of Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Firefox on Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android.

Your rights

If you are not happy with our reply, you can contact the U.S. Department of Justice at ada.gov.

This statement was last reviewed on September 25, 2026.