Accessibility Statement
Last updated 2026-07-07.
Our commitment
HearAura is an accessibility product first — it exists to help people who are deaf or hard of hearing use Auracast broadcast audio. We hold the app itself to a high accessibility bar and treat accessibility bugs as priority issues.
What HearAura supports
- VoiceOver. Controls are labelled and the live caption view announces updates.
- Dynamic Type. Text scales with your system text-size setting, including the large accessibility sizes.
- Simple mode. A Simple/Advanced switch keeps the main screen to just scan, join, and volume for users who don't want the developer surfaces.
- Honest captions. Captions are always labelled by source — approximate room captions from the iPhone microphone versus real captions published by the broadcast source — so you know what you're reading.
- On-device by default. Captioning runs on your phone, so it works without a network and keeps your conversations private.
Known limits (stated honestly)
- The iPhone cannot receive Auracast broadcast audio itself — your hearing aids do. HearAura commands the join; it can't play the broadcast through the phone.
- Microphone captions are approximate and depend on room noise and distance from the speaker.
- AirPods and most earbuds can't receive Auracast; HearAura tells you when a connected device can't, and offers Channels and captions instead.
Feedback
If any part of HearAura is hard to use with an assistive technology, please tell us — it's a bug we want to fix: access@hearaura.app.