Scope Scanner™

Scope Scanner — Accessibility

Last updated: 2026-09-23 · Version 8.2

Our position

Scope Scanner is built to be usable with the accessibility features already in your device: VoiceOver, larger text, Reduce Motion, and increased contrast. We aim to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA as it applies to a native mobile application.

We are stating that as a goal we work to and test against, not as a certification. Below is what has actually been done, and — just as importantly — what has not.

What the App does today

Text size. The App follows your system text-size setting, including the larger accessibility sizes. Text is capped rather than fixed: dense numeric screens stop scaling before they become unreadable, instead of ignoring your setting altogether. Layouts have been checked at the largest accessibility size to confirm they reflow rather than collapse.

VoiceOver. Interactive controls carry a role, a spoken label, and a selected or toggled state. The price chart is described aloud — its symbol and timeframe, how many bars are shown, the visible price range, the latest price, the direction across that range, and any moving-average overlays that are switched on. That description reports what is drawn and nothing else; it does not characterise the market, because the App does not do that anywhere (see the Disclaimers).

Reduce Motion. When Reduce Motion is enabled in your device settings, the App’s animations — pulses, glows, sweeps and flickers — do not run. Nothing essential is conveyed by motion alone.

Flashing and photosensitivity. The App’s visual style is animated throughout — flickering borders, blinking icons, pulses, glows and moving sweeps. Reduce Motion stops all of it, as described above. We do not claim the animated interface meets the flash thresholds in WCAG 2.3.1, and we do not recommend the App to anyone with photosensitive epilepsy or any other seizure disorder; the Disclaimers carry the full health warning. If Reduce Motion leaves anything in the App still flashing, that is a defect — please report it and we will treat it as one.

Touch targets. Interactive controls are at least 44 points, and controls that are drawn smaller than that extend their touchable area to meet it. One control does not meet this and we say so rather than round it up: the bell on a watchlist row is 32 points wide, because widening its touchable area sideways would overlap the control beside it, and a tap that lands in an overlap is resolved by draw order rather than by what you aimed at. The control immediately beside it performs the same action, so a tap in the gap is never wrong — but 32 is not 44, and this sentence would be false without this paragraph.

Colour. Colour is never the only way information is given: rising and falling values carry a sign and a number, elevated volume carries a duration, and alerts carry text. Text colours have been checked against WCAG AA contrast ratios and corrected where they fell short.

No time limits. No interaction in the App has to be completed within a time limit — no control stops accepting your input because time has passed, and nothing has to be finished before something else happens. Market data updates on its own, and you can stop it updating by leaving the screen. One piece of text does remove itself on a timer; it is listed under Known limitations below, and nothing you have to do is on a clock.

This used to say "nothing in the App expires", which is a broader claim than the accessibility guideline asks for and is not true: the 10-day Pro trial expires. What WCAG 2.2.1 is about is timed interaction, and that promise stands exactly as written above.

It also used to say "nothing is dismissed while you are reading it", removed 2026-09-14. That clause arrived with the narrowing above, went further than WCAG 2.2.1 asks for, and was not true while it stood: the fullscreen chart’s rotation hint takes itself away after about 2.6 seconds. It is now disclosed as a limitation instead of denied. Both corrections are recorded here rather than edited away, because a statement that has overstated once should show where.

Known limitations

Stated plainly, because you should be able to decide whether the App is usable for you before you install it.

  • The chart’s crosshair cannot be driven with VoiceOver on. VoiceOver takes over the touch area, so the drag gesture that positions the crosshair is unavailable. The spoken chart description exists to carry the readings the crosshair would otherwise give, but it summarises the visible window rather than letting you inspect an individual bar.
  • The fullscreen chart’s rotation hint removes itself after about 2.6 seconds. Opening a chart fullscreen puts a one-line prompt — "turn your phone left" — in the header, and it disappears on a timer whether or not you have read it. It is plain text with no spoken label, so with VoiceOver on it is unlikely to be reached before it goes. Nothing depends on reading it: the chart is fully operable unrotated, the close control is labelled, and the hint says what to do rather than being the only way to do it. Even so, we are not going to call it anything other than what it is: a reading time limit on instructional text. The fix is to tie the hint to the rotation it describes instead of to a clock, and that is the one intended.
  • The App is visually dense by design. It presents a large amount of numeric information per row. Even at the largest text size some screens require horizontal awareness that may be tiring.
  • We have not commissioned an independent audit. The conformance work above was done and tested by the developer. An external assessment has not been carried out.
  • Some secondary labels are not yet capped for text scaling. They remain legible at ordinary accessibility sizes but have not each been individually verified at the maximum.
  • The spoken chart description is new. Its wording is tested, but the announcement has not yet been listened to end to end on a physical device with VoiceOver running. If it does not read the way this section describes, that is a defect and we want to hear about it.

We do not consider this list finished. It is what is known now.

Alternatives

Everything the App displays is derived from public market data. If a barrier here prevents you from using it, the underlying figures are available directly from Binance.US and CoinGecko, whose own accessibility practices are theirs rather than ours.

Tell us what is broken

If any part of Scope Scanner is not usable with the assistive technology you rely on, tell us and we will treat it as a defect, not a feature request.

support@scopescanner.app

Please include the device, the iOS version, the assistive technology in use, and the screen where the problem occurs. We aim to acknowledge accessibility reports within 5 business days and to tell you what we intend to do about the issue and when.

Feedback about this statement

This statement is maintained alongside the App and updated when the interface changes. If you believe it overstates what the App does, that is itself something we want reported at the address above.