Accessibility in Bloomingo

Everything in Bloomingo works from the keyboard, and it names what you’re on for a screen reader. It follows your system’s setting for less motion, and Settings can make the whole interface bigger.

Use it from the keyboard

Press ⌘KCtrl+K to open the command menu. From there you can search everything and go to any day or page. You can also add a task, a note, a task list, a timer, a board, a text, a shape, or an image or PDF to the board you’re on. See Search and commands.

Press ?? on a board, or choose Help in the zoom bar, to see every shortcut. The keyboard shortcuts page lists them all.

• Focus always shows where you are.
• EscEsc closes the top layer, such as a menu or a dialog, then clears the selection.
• When a menu, dialog, picker, the timeline or the side panel closes, focus goes back to what opened it.
• Single-letter keys only work when you aren’t typing. While you write, every key goes into the text.

Move around a board

A board is one stop as you press TabTab. Inside it, things are in reading order: from the top left to the bottom right, row by row.

• TabTab enters the board at the selected thing, or at its first thing when none is selected. Pressed again, it leaves the board for the rest of the window.
• Arrow keysArrow keys select the nearest thing in that direction. It scrolls into view.
• ↵Enter opens the selected thing. On a task list, it types the list’s title.
• ⇧F10Shift+F10 opens the thing’s menu. Its Link to links it to another thing on the board, by name.
• ⌥Arrow keysAlt+Arrow keys nudge the selection, and ⌥⇧Arrow keysShift+Alt+Arrow keys nudge it further.
• ⌥⌘Arrow keysCtrl+Alt+Arrow keys resize the selected thing, and ⌥⇧⌘Arrow keysCtrl+Shift+Alt+Arrow keys resize it in smaller steps.
• A tap of SpaceSpace marks the selected task done.

The bar above a selection is one Tab stop too. ←← and →→ move along its buttons, and HomeHome and EndEnd go to its ends.

On the timeline, TabTab reaches each block in turn. SpaceSpace on its check marks it done, and ↵Enter on the block opens it. ⌥↑Alt+↑ and ⌥↓Alt+↓ move it 15 minutes earlier or later, and ⌥⇧↓Shift+Alt+↓ and ⌥⇧↑Shift+Alt+↑ make it 15 minutes longer or shorter.

With a screen reader

Bloomingo names each thing on a board by its kind and its title, such as “Task: Call the bank” or “Note: Launch plan”. A board itself is named for its day or its name.

• Things are read in the board’s reading order, whatever sits on top of what. A section is read as a group, with what is in it read inside it.
• A drawing is read as one “Drawing”. Links between things are read on the things they join: “Linked to: Task: Call the bank”.
• When you change day, go to a page or jump to a thing from search, Bloomingo says where you are now.
• Short messages, such as “Moved to Trash.”, are read as they come, and a failed save is read at once. Press F6F6 to reach the newest message’s button, such as Undo or Try now.
• In the command menu, each result says its group, and “No matches” is read when nothing matches.

If something doesn’t read well with your screen reader, please tell us at hello@doddle.software.

Turn down the motion

Bloomingo follows your system’s setting:

• On a Mac: System Settings › Accessibility › Display › Reduce motion.
• On Windows: Settings › Accessibility › Visual effects, then turn off Animation effects.

With it on, every movement and fade in Bloomingo happens at once. When you jump to a thing, the board goes straight there, and the ring that marks the thing shows for a moment without fading.

Make everything bigger

Open Settings, then under Appearance choose an Interface size: Small, Default, Large or Larger. Text, icons and buttons grow together, in every window, at once.

Zooming a board with ⌘+Ctrl++ and ⌘−Ctrl+− changes only the board. The interface size changes everything around it too.

Contrast and colour

Choose a Theme under Appearance: Light, Dark or System, which follows your computer. Bloomingo’s colours are chosen to meet WCAG 2.2 AA contrast in both themes, and a status always comes with a word or an icon, never colour alone.

On Windows, Bloomingo follows a contrast theme. Some states show with a fill, such as the page you’re on, a pressed button or a selected thing. In a contrast theme they also get an outline in your theme’s highlight colour.