Natulang for blind
and low-vision learners

Works with VoiceOver and TalkBack

Natulang works with VoiceOver on iPhone and iPad and with TalkBack on Android. Buttons, lessons, settings and AI dialogs have screen reader labels, so you can find your way around the app by ear.

Accessibility mode

When VoiceOver or TalkBack is on, Natulang switches to accessibility mode by itself:

• Tapping a lesson starts it right away, including lessons you've already finished
• When you scroll the lesson list, the lesson in the middle of the screen gets the focus, with a short vibration so you know where you are
• Notes that sighted learners read on screen, such as formal, plural or feminine, are spoken by the narrator before you answer
• Reading practice, where you read a story off the screen, is left out of the lesson list

You can turn accessibility mode off in Settings. The switch shows up there while VoiceOver or TalkBack is running. Spoken notes have a setting of their own, Voice phrases' properties, which works with or without a screen reader.

Why the method works without sight

Most language apps are visual. You tap words, match pairs, drag tiles into sentences and type translations, and with a screen reader every one of those exercises turns into a chore. Natulang has none of them. A lesson is a spoken conversation between you and the narrator, and the screen only shows what you hear.

• The narrator asks how to say a phrase in your language, and you answer out loud
• Speech recognition checks what you say and accepts natural variations
• If you get it wrong, you hear the right answer and try again
• New phrases come together into real-life dialogues that you speak, not read
• Spaced repetition brings back the phrases you got wrong, and the hardest ones go to Challenging for extra practice
• In free dialogs with AI, you talk with the AI by voice

Once a lesson starts, you don't need to touch the screen. With Lock screen lessons on in Settings, the lesson keeps going with the screen locked on iPhone, iPad and Android, so you can practice while walking, cooking or commuting.

This is how people learned languages long before apps: by listening and speaking. Learning by ear isn't a workaround in Natulang, it's the method.

What still depends on sight

• Reading practice trains reading text on screen, so accessibility mode leaves it out
• In the Japanese course, kana and kanji explanations, mnemonics and look-alikes are visual. The speaking lessons work the same as in every other course

If something in the app doesn't work well with your screen reader, write to support@natulang.com. We read every message.