1. What we aim for
The target is WCAG 2.2 Level AA across the whole app and every public page a client of yours opens from a link: quotes, invoices, progress claims and variations. Your customers never made an account with us, so those pages carry the same standard as the app itself.
In practice that means: everything works from a keyboard and with a screen reader, text can be made bigger without breaking the page, nothing depends on telling one colour from another, and nothing moves if you have asked your device to keep still.
2. What is built today
- Text size and high contrast: in the app, open Settings, then Display. There are three text sizes (Default, Large and Largest) and a high-contrast switch. Each one works the moment you tap it and is remembered on that device. They take effect before a page paints, so there is no flash of small text. The pages your clients open follow their own browser’s zoom and text settings.
- Reduced motion is respected: if your phone or computer has “reduce motion” on, the launch screen, the page transitions and every other animation in Sumitt stay still.
- Keyboard and screen readers: every control has a real label, and forms use real fields. There is a skip link to the main content on every app screen, and the focus outline is one you can see. The pages your clients open have a heading and landmarks, so a screen reader can jump straight to the price. They also say out loud when they are still loading.
- Tap targets you can hit with a glove on: the app’s shared buttons are at least 44 pixels tall. That is Apple’s own guidance, and well above WCAG’s 24 pixel minimum. Smaller things you tap, like a tick box or a link in a sentence, are built to meet that 24 pixel minimum or the spacing WCAG allows. The tests below measure it rather than assume it.
- Colour is never the only signal: the margin gauge on every quote carries a word beside its colour, so “below your floor” reads as words, not as a shade. Status chips and warnings carry their text too. Text on your clients’ pages is checked for contrast, colour by colour. Your brand colours are darkened or lightened just enough to stay readable.
3. How we check
Automated checks run on every change to Sumitt. They look for a form field or an icon button with no name a screen reader can say. They look for text smaller than 12 pixels. They look for text on your clients’ pages that falls under the contrast AA asks for. An automated scanner called axe also checks the public pages in a desktop browser: the home page, pricing, sign in, the terms, privacy and rate check pages, and this one.
The scans of the screens you sign into first ran on 10 September 2026. They found 27 problems across eight screens. All 27 are fixed in the code, but the scans have not been run again to confirm it. The scans of the quote, invoice, progress claim and variation your clients open are new and have not run yet. Both need a separate test copy of Sumitt to sign into. That copy is being set up, so that they run on every change.
Between them, these scans cover every screen you sign into, in four display settings: standard, dark, largest text and high contrast. They cover your clients’ four documents, where they also check the headings and landmarks. They include a keyboard-only run from Home to the button that sends a quote. They measure tap targets, focus outlines and motion. Each one is written to run in a desktop browser and on an iPhone-sized screen.
Not covered yet:
- screens that only exist once a particular record does, like one quote inside the app, a job or a client
- dialogs and panels once they are open
- the membership join page, and the booking and quote request pages your clients use
- testing by people who use screen readers and switch controls every day.
4. Known gaps we are working on
- The quote builder on a phone, from a keyboard. On a phone-sized screen, moving through it with a keyboard reaches the options and extras before the price check. On a computer, the order is the order you see.
- The iOS app cannot pinch-zoom. Zoom is locked in the app shell so a stray pinch cannot leave the screen stuck half-zoomed. Use the text size setting instead: it makes everything bigger and keeps the layout intact. The website in a normal browser still zooms as usual.
- Some PDFs are not tagged. The PDF copy of a quote or invoice may not read well in a screen reader yet. The web page of the same document, the link your client receives, is the accessible version and always carries the same content.
- Voice features are new. Talking to the Foreman and dictating a variation arrived recently and are not yet as polished as typing. Everything they do can also be done from the keyboard.
5. How to tell us
If something in Sumitt is in your way, email support@sumitt.com.au and say which screen, which device, and what happened. A person reads it and answers within one business day, and a fix for a blocking problem goes to the front of the queue.
This statement is reviewed with every release that touches the app shell; the date at the top is the last time it changed. See also our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.