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The Alarm

Accessibility

Last updated: November 11, 2026

In short

  • The Alarm is built for VoiceOver and large text – in English and German.
  • We check the app and this website for barriers with automated tests whenever they change.
  • What isn't good yet is listed below. If you run into a barrier, write to us.

The app

VoiceOver: the main screens – Alarms, Calendar, World Clock, Stopwatch and Timer – have labels that VoiceOver reads out, in English and German. In the week view, VoiceOver also says when you're on vacation and where sleep before an alarm gets short; when you move alarms, it says what an alarm time becomes, such as “5:45 becomes 5:30”.

Text size: text follows the iOS text size up to the largest accessibility sizes. With very large text, the figures on the cards stack, headings wrap instead of being cut off, and the calendar shows the week as a list instead of seven columns. The large digits of the clocks have a fixed size.

Contrast and colors: secondary text is designed for a contrast of at least 4.5 : 1 in both light and dark appearance. The calendar marks days to sleep in with a moon, not just a color; public holidays, vacations and days changed on their own are also shown as text in the day view.

Controls: you can bring back deleted alarms with “Undo”, and you can also take back a skipped alarm. Asking for the next alarm, skipping it and turning single alarms on and off also work with Siri; skipping the next alarm also works with a widget, a control and the Action button – without opening the app.

Hearing and seeing: alarms ring through the alarm system of iOS, in silent mode and with a Focus on, too. If you don't hear alarms well, iOS can flash the light (iOS Settings › Accessibility › Audio & Visual › LED Flash for Alerts); The Alarm shows you the way there, and you can use the trial run to check that it flashes. The day clock shows the weekday, time of day, time and date in large type – for anyone for whom days and times blur together. The talking alarm (with Pro) announces the time, your first event and the weather.

Testing: automated UI tests open all tabs and the main screens and run Apple's accessibility audit along the way – for contrast, labels, large text and hit areas.

This website

We design thealarmapp.com to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA: keyboard operation with a link straight to the content and a visible focus, a light and a dark appearance, and zooming up to 400% without scrolling sideways.

Before we publish a change, an automated test checks every page with axe-core against the WCAG 2.2 AA rules, along with keyboard operation and the layout at a width of 320 pixels without sideways scrolling. It runs in light and dark appearance.

What isn't good yet

  • Section headers and footers in forms, such as in Settings, use the iOS gray, with a contrast of only about 3 : 1.
  • A few elements sit under the translucent tab bar and are harder to read there.
  • In the month calendar, VoiceOver reads the date, public holiday and earliest alarm time for each day. Whether a day is a vacation day or was changed on its own, you only learn in the day view.
  • We haven't yet tested VoiceOver by hand on every screen.
  • So far, The Alarm only respects Reduce Motion in some places.
  • We haven't fully checked the contrast in widgets and in the Live Activity yet.
  • At launch, The Alarm speaks English and German. More languages will follow.

Found a barrier?

Write to us at contact@lacodea.com and briefly describe where it gets stuck. We usually reply within a few working days and fix what we can with the next update.

About this statement

This statement is based on our own testing of the app – with automated tests, large text and VoiceOver on some screens – and of the website with automated tests. We update it when something changes.