Daily 7 is built to be playable by as many people as possible. This page summarises the accessibility features the app supports, what's intentional, and what we're still planning to improve.
Every game grid in Daily 7 is labelled for VoiceOver, the screen reader built into iOS. As you move through a puzzle, VoiceOver speaks each cell's position and current state — for example, "Row 3, column 5, given 7," or "Guess 1, letter 3, P, correct position." Chrome buttons (timer, hint, undo, back) carry their own labels. When you complete a puzzle, VoiceOver announces the result with your star count and time, so the celebration is audible as well as visual.
Because every interactive element carries an accessibility label, Voice Control can identify it. You can say "tap Sudoku," "tap row 3 column 5," or "tap hint" and Daily 7 will follow.
All editorial text in the app — mastheads, section headers, body copy, captions, and counters — respects your Larger Text setting. As you increase text size in Settings > Display & Brightness > Text Size (or Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size), the type in Daily 7 grows along with the system curve. Game-cell letters and digits (sudoku numbers, crossword letters) intentionally stay tied to their grid size so the grid itself doesn't break, but every label around them scales.
Daily 7 ships with a paper-on-cream daytime palette and a warm "evening edition" night palette. The app follows your iOS appearance setting automatically: when iOS is in Dark Mode, Daily 7 switches to the night palette — deep sepia background, cream ink — without changing the editorial feel.
When you enable Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Increase Contrast, Daily 7 deepens text and divider colours to push them further from the background. Primary text already meets WCAG AAA contrast; this setting pushes secondary text past that bar as well.
Daily 7 never relies on colour alone to convey meaning. Completed puzzle days are marked with a check mark; partially completed days show an explicit "n of 7" count; today's date carries a distinct outline weight. Locked games carry a lock icon. Wordfully and Word Search also offer a Colourblind palette toggle in Settings, which swaps the standard green/yellow feedback for high-contrast orange/blue.
If Reduce Motion is enabled in your iOS Accessibility settings, Daily 7 suppresses confetti animations, downshifts spring animations to short fades, and removes the page-swipe spring on the onboarding flow. The celebration is still felt — just without the swirl.
Daily 7 plays brief feedback chimes and haptic taps as you solve. Both can be turned off independently in Settings inside the app at any time.
We're still planning these for future updates:
If something is harder to use than it should be — or if you have a specific accessibility feature you'd like to see — please send us a note through our contact form. We read every message.
Updated June 15, 2026 · Cherry Pickles