Auralis Accessibility

Updated: November 5, 2026 App: Auralis, on iPhone and iPad (and Mac) Contact: support@helixstudios.app

Auralis is built around listening, music and quiet, and we want it to work for everyone who wants to use it. This page says what Auralis does with the accessibility settings on your device, and, just as plainly, where it still falls short.

VoiceOver

• Buttons, controls and pictures have labels throughout the app; decorative images are skipped.
• In a session, Need Help is read first, before the session's name and time, and every way to get help in it (Ground Me, your trusted contact, emergency services, your country's crisis line) is a labeled button with a hint saying what it does, since some of them place a call.
• What Auralis says is one element VoiceOver reads ("Auralis: …"), and opening it shows all the words. The spoken words aren't announced over Auralis's own voice, so the two don't talk at once.
• While VoiceOver is on, a session's controls stay on screen rather than fading away.
• Short announcements confirm things that happen without a new screen, such as "Song saved" or "Sent. Thank you."
• Library lessons mark their headings, so you can move through them with the rotor.

Text size (Dynamic Type)

• Auralis follows your text size at every size, including the largest accessibility sizes.
• Cards and buttons grow and wrap rather than cutting words off or shrinking them; a session's screen scrolls, and its controls stay on screen at very large sizes.
• Need Help's buttons wrap their words inside the button at the largest sizes, never cut off.

Words on screen (captions)

• What Auralis says is always on screen during a session, the sentence being spoken moving on with the voice. Tap it to see all of Auralis's words at once.
• Live Transcript shows your own words as you speak. It's on unless you turn it off, in Settings → Voice or from a session's audio controls.
• After a session, its review keeps the whole conversation in writing.
• Library courses can be read on screen or heard read aloud; what's being read is marked and kept in view as it goes.

Reduce Motion

With Reduce Motion on, Auralis keeps still what would otherwise move:

• the session's orb stays still and doesn't breathe;
• the candle in a candle-gazing practice is a still flame;
• each sentence fades in, rather than rising as it appears;
• a movement practice's figure shows one still pose after another, cross-fading instead of moving;
• journal reflections appear at once instead of unfolding, and cards turn over without spinning;
• words you burn away in the journal fade out instead of burning, and pulsing "working" symbols stay still.

Other settings

• Increase Contrast dims the night skies behind text, so words stand out more.
• Reduce Transparency puts solid backgrounds behind controls that would otherwise be see-through.
• Without speaking: you never have to talk; silence is part of every session. Voice commands ("next song", "remember that") are there if you prefer them to tapping.
• Keyboard: on an iPad with a keyboard and on a Mac there are shortcuts: ⌘1–⌘5 for the tabs, and in a session ⇧⌘H for Need Help, Space to play or pause the music, ⌘← and ⌘→ to skip, and ⌘. to end.
• Gazing pictures (such as the candle or the Tree of Life): a tap hides the controls and words so the picture stands clear, and another tap brings them back.
• Languages: the app, its guidance and its replies follow your device's language in English, Spanish, French, German and Brazilian Portuguese.

How we check

Apple's automated accessibility audit runs in our tests on Today, Practice, Journal, Settings and each of its pages, session setup, a live session and Need Help, at the default text size and at a very large one. It reports what it finds rather than stopping the tests, and we work through what it and testers report. Auralis hasn't yet been formally assessed against a standard such as WCAG.

Where Auralis falls short

• Auralis is an audio experience at heart. Music, bells, tones and soundscapes have no captions or descriptions, and some practices are paced by sound.
• Library courses and the natural voices are in English only, and translations are made with AI, waiting for review by native speakers.
• The automated audit doesn't reach every screen, and it can't judge everything a person would. If something doesn't work for you, we want to know.

This website

The site is plain HTML with no trackers. It has a skip link to the main content, describes its screenshots, zooms with your browser, and doesn't animate sections in when your device asks for reduced motion. The terms, privacy policy and this page follow your device's light or dark setting; the rest of the site keeps the app's night sky.

Tell us

If something in Auralis or on this site is hard to use with your setup, write to support@helixstudios.app, or use Settings → About → Contact Support in the app. Tell us what you tried and which accessibility settings you use, and we'll reply.