Accessibility Settings & Tools

These tools are built into this website and the app. No install, no account, no payment. Use the ones that help; ignore the rest.

Jump to: Spoon Counter · Emergency Simplify · Text size · Spacing · Reading aids · Colour filters

A persistent Accessibility Tools button (♿) now appears on every page — open it any time to adjust text size, spacing, colour, energy tracking and more without leaving the page. Full explanations of each tool are below.

Built for every community we serve

These tools are not one-size-fits-all. Here is who each one is for:

Disability community (all disabilities): every control — text size, line spacing, dyslexia-friendly font, reading mask, colour filters, dark mode, high contrast.
Elderly users: larger default text (already bigger than most sites), text-size controls, loose spacing, high contrast, reading mask for scanning long policy pages.
Veterans: calm / low-stimulus via Emergency Simplify, grayscale and colour filters for light sensitivity (including trauma- and PTSD-related triggers), break reminders, dark mode.
Injured workers: Spoon Counter energy tracking for flare days, Emergency Simplify for bad days, break reminders during appeals and paperwork, loose spacing for fatigue.

If a tool would help your situation and is missing, tell us via Contact.

What each tool does

Spoon Counter — energy tracker

A five-spoon meter representing the energy you have available today.

Chronic illness works on banked energy, not willpower. You start each day with a full account and everything you spend — pain, appointments, housework, a difficult conversation — draws it down. When the account is empty, you are not lazy or doing too much. You are out of spoons.

The counter lets you name that honestly instead of guessing.

Use −1 when something costs you
Rest +1 when you recover
Reset to 5 to start a new day

This is not a medical tool and it tracks nothing you did not enter yourself.

Emergency Simplify — bad-day mode

One control that strips the page back to large text, generous spacing, plain contrast and minimal navigation.

Built for the days when reading a dense page is genuinely hard — after a bad night, during a flare, after a hospital appointment. You should not have to fight the layout to get to the information you need.

Press it once. The page simplifies. Turn it off when you are ready.

Spacing

Two settings — normal and loose.

Loose spacing increases line height and letter spacing. It helps with dyslexia, visual fatigue, migraine, and reading after a concussion.

Reading aids

Dyslexia-friendly font — switches to a typeface with distinct letter shapes, so b and d stop looking alike.
Reading mask — dims everything except the line or paragraph you are on. Useful for scanning dense policy text.

Colour filters

Three options: none, grayscale, invert.

Grayscale reduces the strain of high-saturation colour blocks. Invert flips light-on-dark to dark-on-light, which some migraine and photophobia triggers prefer.

Appearance settings

Alongside these, the interface offers high contrast and dark mode from the quick-access control in the header.

Your settings are yours

Preferences are stored in your own browser only. They are not sent to us, not attached to an account, and not used to profile you. Clearing your browser data resets them.

Is the site accessible if I can’t use these?

These tools help, but they do not make a site accessible on their own. For what we have committed to and where we still fall short, read the Accessibility Statement — including known limitations and how to report a barrier.

Something not working?

Tell us. A tool that quietly fails is worse than one that is missing, because you will plan around it. Report a problem · Accessibility statement

These tools are free and carry no obligations. If a paid option would help more, say so — that is useful information too.