Accessibility

Built for the bedside, not the desk

The app assumes a user who may be weak, shaky, sedated, or working with one hand. Every primary control is at least 88dp — roughly a fingertip and a half — and the emergency phrases are reachable in one tap from any patient screen.

Every tap produces a haptic pulse, so a patient knows the app registered them even when they cannot hear the result.

Seeing it

Text can be scaled up to 160%, and the layout collapses from two columns to one so nothing is clipped at the largest size.

Three themes are available and are chosen by a caregiver rather than followed from the operating system, because a bay is bright by day and dark at night: light, night, and a high-contrast theme for low vision.

While a phrase is being spoken it is also shown full-screen at display size, so it can be read from across the room by someone who did not hear it.

Screen readers

Every control carries a label and a role, and status changes are announced explicitly on both iOS and Android rather than relying on a live region that only one platform supports.

Language

English and Arabic ship together, with full right-to-left layout for Arabic. What the screen shows and what the phone says are separate settings, so a patient can read Arabic while the phone speaks English for staff — or speak both, one after the other.

Arabic wording follows the grammatical form the patient uses about themselves, because Arabic adjectives agree with the speaker.

What it does not do yet

Being honest about the gaps matters more than a compliance badge. Speak For Me does not yet support switch scanning, eye-gaze input, or dwell selection, so it cannot serve a patient with no reliable touch at all.

The typing screen needs fine motor control and is intended for caregivers and mildly affected patients, not as the primary route for someone who cannot manage the phrase tiles.

If any of these would decide whether the app is usable for your patients, we would rather you knew before installing it.