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title: "Accessibility — CueFlip"
description: "What CueFlip supports, where the support has limits, and how to tell us when it gets in your way."
url: "https://cueflip.com/accessibility/"
language: "en"
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# Accessibility

What CueFlip supports, where the support has limits, and how to tell us when it gets in your way.

Last updated 1 October 2026 · applies to CueFlip 1.3 and later

## The short version

CueFlip exists to remove one physical act from performing: taking a hand off the instrument to turn a page. For players who cannot easily free a hand, that is the whole point of the app rather than a feature of it.

From version 1.3, CueFlip supports all seven of the accessibility features Apple asks about that apply to it: **VoiceOver**, **Voice Control**, **Larger Text**, **Dark Interface**, **Differentiate Without Color Alone**, **Sufficient Contrast** and **Reduced Motion**. Captions and Audio Descriptions do not apply. Where an answer comes with a qualification, the qualification is written out below rather than left for you to discover.

[accessibility@cueflip.com](mailto:accessibility@cueflip.com)

## Feature summary

These are the accessibility features Apple asks developers to assess, and how CueFlip answers for each on iPhone and iPad. The answers are the same on both.

**CueFlip’s responses to Apple’s Accessibility Nutrition Label criteria.**

| Feature | Supported | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| VoiceOver | Yes | Every control is labelled. The score turns with a swipe, and every drag, long press and hidden gesture has a VoiceOver action. |
| Voice Control | Yes | Every control answers to the word printed on it. The piano’s keys are the one thing played by touch, or from a MIDI or computer keyboard. |
| Larger Text | Yes | Every screen scales to the largest accessibility sizes. Controls floating over the score stay compact and magnify on a long press. |
| Dark Interface | Yes | Follows system Dark Mode. The score itself can also be shown warmer, or inverted. |
| Differentiate Without Color Alone | Yes | Status is always written out in words or shown by shape, not signalled by colour alone. |
| Sufficient Contrast | Yes | Built from system colours, so Increase Contrast applies throughout; with it on, the quietest text steps up too. |
| Reduced Motion | Yes | All decorative animation stops. The visible metronome beat is deliberately kept, and softened. |
| Captions | Not applicable | CueFlip contains no video and no recorded speech, so there is nothing to caption. |
| Audio Descriptions | Not applicable | As above — there is no time-based visual content to describe. |

## What is supported

### VoiceOver

Every common task in CueFlip — the first-run introduction, importing a score, teaching it its page turns, reviewing those turns, reading, performing, choosing a plan and changing settings — can be done with VoiceOver alone.

The score is a single adjustable element: swipe up or down to turn the page, and VoiceOver reads the new position. When the app turns a page itself during a performance, that turn is announced. The controls that a sighted player summons with a tap in the middle of the score are in the score’s actions rotor.

Anything CueFlip does with a drag or a long press has a VoiceOver equivalent. In the page-turn review list, every row reads as one sentence — which turn, at what time, from which page to which — and its buttons say which turn they move or delete. Reordering pages, or the movements of a merged score, is in the actions rotor one step at a time. The recording you teach from is scrubbed with the same up and down swipe as any slider, and starting and finishing a recording are both spoken. The tuner’s reading — the note, how far off it is, and which way to tune — is one element that VoiceOver re-reads as the note changes, so it can be used by ear and by voice together.

The piano keyboard allows direct touch: once VoiceOver is on the keyboard, your fingers play the keys, the way GarageBand’s keyboard behaves.

### Voice Control

Speaking “Show names” labels every control with the word printed on it, or for an icon, a short name such as “Close”, “Tools” or “More”. The score answers to “Increment Score” and “Decrement Score” to turn the page, and the controls a tap would reveal are listed under “Show actions”. A recording is started and stopped by voice. The one exception is playing the piano’s keys, which needs touch, a MIDI keyboard or a computer keyboard.

### Larger Text

The library, teaching a piece, the review list, settings, the subscription screen and the first-run introduction all use Dynamic Type and scale to the largest accessibility sizes, re-arranging themselves as they go: library cards widen to one or two across and titles wrap, review rows stack their buttons under the time, price options stack, and screens that would no longer fit begin to scroll.

The controls that float over a score — the title, page indicator, following status and the reader’s buttons — are the deliberate exception, explained under [Limits](https://cueflip.com/accessibility/#limits). At the accessibility sizes, touching and holding any of them shows its name magnified in the middle of the screen, through the system’s Large Content Viewer.

### Dark Interface

CueFlip follows the system appearance everywhere and never forces a light interface. Its own surfaces are built from system colours, so turning on Dark Mode darkens the whole app. The first-run introduction and the tuner are dark in every appearance.

A score is a different problem: a PDF is white paper, and a white page is the brightest thing on a darkened stage. The reader therefore offers three display treatments of its own, which carry over when you perform — *Default*, *Sepia*, which warms the page, and *Night*, which inverts the page so the notation is light on black. There is also a brightness slider inside the reader, so you can lower the screen without leaving the score to visit Control Centre.

### Reduced Motion

Every animation in CueFlip is routed through a single switch that turns it off when Reduce Motion is on. There is no parallax, no depth simulation, no spinning and no auto-advancing content anywhere in the app. Rolling number readouts, such as the page counter and the tempo, swap in place instead of scrolling. The first-run introduction skips its opening animation and shows still pictures in place of its moving ones, and the tuner’s ring stops shimmering and no longer throws particles outward when a note lands — it still gathers to one side or the other, because that movement is the reading.

One animation is deliberately kept: the beat pulse at the edge of the page when the metronome is set to *Silent*. It looks like exactly the kind of repeating flash Reduce Motion exists to stop, but in that mode it *is* the metronome — it is the beat a player who cannot hear the click came for, and removing it would delete the feature rather than calm it. It is softened instead: under Reduce Motion the pulse fades in and out more slowly and gently. Setting the metronome to *Sound*, or switching it off, removes the motion entirely.

### Sufficient Contrast

CueFlip’s interface is almost entirely monochrome by design — black or white text and controls, with no coloured buttons — and it is drawn with Apple’s system colours rather than fixed values. That means the Increase Contrast, Bold Text and Reduce Transparency settings all take effect on CueFlip’s own interface without the app having to do anything special.

Where CueFlip uses a deliberately quiet shade — fine print under a price, the copyright line, features not included in a plan, the tuner’s frequency line — turning on Increase Contrast lifts it to a shade that meets the 4.5:1 guideline. The tuner’s in-tune green also deepens, so its white reading stays legible on it.

The score itself is your PDF, and its contrast is a property of the file you imported. *Night* mode inverts it, which raises the contrast of a faint or yellowed scan considerably.

### Differentiate Without Color Alone

Nothing you need in order to perform is signalled by colour alone. The status indicator during a performance carries a small coloured dot, but the state it represents is written out in words immediately beside it, so the colour is redundant rather than load-bearing. Selection is shown by a filled versus an outlined shape, not by tint. The tuner says “In tune”, “Tune up” or “Tune down” in words as well as turning green. The app has no colour-coded charts.

The 3× playback speed used while teaching from a recording is shown by its label turning blue; with Differentiate Without Color turned on, it also gains a filled background. One optional feature does use colour as its subject: when two devices share annotations, you can turn on *Colour by author* to see who drew what. It is off by default, and turning it off returns every annotation to a single ink colour.

## Hands-free and hardware

### Automatic page turning

CueFlip’s purpose is that pages turn without being touched. You teach a piece once, and from then on the app listens and turns each page as you reach it. For a player who cannot reliably let go of the instrument, or reach the screen, this removes the interaction rather than adapting it.

### Bluetooth foot pedals and keyboards

Every screen that shows a score — performing, reading, and both ways of teaching a piece — accepts page turns from a paired Bluetooth page-turner pedal or a hardware keyboard. CueFlip reads the keys those pedals send (the arrow keys, and Page Up and Page Down), so pedals such as AirTurn, PageFlip, iRig BlueTurn and Donner work once they are paired in iOS Settings, with nothing to configure in the app. The same keys work from any external keyboard, including a Smart Keyboard or Magic Keyboard.

While teaching a piece, a pedal press also records the page turn, so a score can be prepared without touching the screen.

## Playing without hearing the click

The practice metronome has three modes: *Sound*, *Silent* and *Both*. In *Silent* mode it makes no sound at all and marks time with a pulse around the edge of the page, with a stronger pulse on the first beat of the bar. It was built for playing in an ensemble without adding a click to the room, but it serves equally as a metronome for a deaf or hard-of-hearing player. As noted above, this is the one animation that survives Reduce Motion, because switching it off would be switching off the metronome.

## Limits

We would rather describe these precisely than leave you to discover them.

### Controls over the score stay compact

The controls that *float over a score* — the title, the page indicator, the following-status readout and the reader’s and teaching screens’ buttons — stop growing at a size a little above the default. That is deliberate: they sit on top of the music, and at accessibility text sizes they would grow to cover several bars of it, which for a low-vision player trying to read the score is a worse outcome than a small label. In their place, CueFlip uses the Large Content Viewer, the same mechanism the system uses for tab bars: at the accessibility sizes, touch and hold any of these controls to see its name magnified, and lift your finger on it to use it. The piano’s panel works the same way, because it is drawn as an instrument’s panel rather than as text.

The score itself does not respond to Dynamic Type at all: it is your PDF, and its size is set by pinch-to-zoom. Zooming in and letting pages turn automatically is a workable way to read a score at a large size, and *Night* mode raises its contrast.

### The piano under Voice Control

The piano’s controls all answer to their names, but its keys are played by touch, by a MIDI keyboard, or from a computer keyboard — playing an instrument one spoken note at a time is not something Voice Control is built for.

### Switch Control and Full Keyboard Access

We have not evaluated CueFlip against these and make no claim about them. Much of the work above — every control labelled, every gesture with an action — is what they depend on too, but we have not tested them end to end. If you use either, we would like to hear what happens.

## Reporting a problem

If something in CueFlip is unusable with an assistive technology, please tell us. Accessibility reports are read by the person who writes the app, and they are not queued behind feature requests.

It helps to include which assistive technology you were using, your device and iOS version, and what you were trying to do at the time. If you use VoiceOver, quoting what it read out — or failed to read out — pinpoints the problem faster than anything else.

[accessibility@cueflip.com](mailto:accessibility@cueflip.com)

This page is reviewed with every release. Where our answer changes, it changes here and on the App Store at the same time. See also [Support](https://cueflip.com/support/) and the [Privacy Policy](https://cueflip.com/privacy/).

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