ACCESSIBILITY
An app for everyone
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The Radio Moto Storie app is designed for blind and low-vision listeners too. Here is what works with the accessibility settings on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV and CarPlay, and where there are still limits.
VoiceOver
- Every button, card and cover has a name that says what it is and what it does. Purely decorative images are skipped.
- When you start the live stream, a replay, a podcast or a channel, VoiceOver stays quiet so it doesn’t talk over the radio.
- The title and artist of the song on air can be read in the player, the mini player, on the Lock Screen and in Control Center.
- Purchases and tips are announced aloud: “Purchase complete. Thank you!”, “Purchases restored”, or the reason if something goes wrong.
- Long-press actions (favorites, share, move a channel) are also available from the rotor.
Larger text and readability
- Text follows the size chosen in Settings › Display & Brightness › Text Size, including the larger Accessibility sizes.
- At Accessibility sizes, text in lists wraps instead of being cut off.
- Where space is fixed (the player’s top bar and quick actions), touching and holding a button shows its name enlarged.
- Automatic light and dark appearance. Text stays readable over blurred artwork thanks to a veil that gets stronger with Increase Contrast.
- The red used for text is darker in light mode and lighter in dark mode, so it stays legible.
Motion, sound and haptics
- With Reduce Motion, background effects (wave and glow) and scrolling titles stop.
- Haptics only accompany actions that change something, such as starting playback or the sleep timer.
- The radio can also be controlled from headphones, the Lock Screen, the Apple TV remote and CarPlay.
Siri and voice control
- Ask Siri to play Moto Storie, what’s playing on Moto Storie, to set the Moto Storie sleep timer, or to play a replay by name. Siri understands the phrases in Italian, English and Portuguese, following the iPhone’s language.
- Commands also work with earbuds and in the car, without looking at the screen.
- The visible names of buttons can be used with Voice Control.
On each device
- Mac: works with the keyboard and VoiceOver; icon-only buttons show their name on hover.
- Apple Watch: large controls suited to the wrist; with Always On the colors dim.
- Apple TV: navigation with the remote and VoiceOver; next to the QR code for recent songs, the title and artist are written out.
- CarPlay: standard Apple lists and controls, designed not to distract while driving.
Known limitations
- The live stream is audio only: there are no captions or transcripts of the shows.
- Some channel logos and covers contain text inside the image; VoiceOver still reads the channel or show name.
- In the player the song title takes up to two lines: very long titles end with an ellipsis, but VoiceOver reads them in full and the song card shows them completely.
- Over some very light or very dark covers, a few small texts may fall slightly below the recommended contrast. Increase Contrast reduces this.
Contact us
If something doesn’t work with your settings, or you have a suggestion, write to radio@radiomotostorie.it or use “Contact us” in the app. We read every message and fix issues as soon as we can.