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Sonto is built to be used however you need to use it — by voice, by keyboard, by switch, or at whatever text size suits your eyes. This page covers what’s supported and where to turn it on. Most of it comes from your device’s own accessibility settings, which Sonto follows. The one setting that lives inside Sonto is Text size.

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Text size

Sonto can render everything smaller or larger, independently of your system text size.
Open Settings → General and drag the Text size slider. There are five steps: Small, Standard, Large, Extra Large and Huge. Standard is the default.The whole interface scales with it, not just the text — rows, spacing and the sidebar grow together, so nothing crowds.You can also change it without opening Settings, from the View menu: Zoom In (Cmd + +), Zoom Out (Cmd + −) and Actual Size (Cmd + 0) to go back to Standard.
Settings and the Backup & Import window deliberately stay at your system text size. Both are fixed-size windows, so they’d have nowhere to grow.

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VoiceOver

Sonto works with VoiceOver on Mac, iPhone and iPad. A task reads as a single item — its name, state, schedule and tags in one pass, rather than as a scattering of separate controls. From there, VoiceOver’s actions give you everything the … menu gives a sighted user:
  • Complete the task, or toggle it in progress.
  • Quick-schedule it.
  • Move Up, Move Down, Move to Top, Move to Bottom — reordering without dragging.
  • Delete it.
Lists announce themselves by name, so you know whether you’re in Overdue, a named group, or the main task list. Headings are marked up as headers, so you can jump between them with the rotor. Calendar events read with their details and can be opened or acted on directly. Sonto also speaks up when something happens out of view: when a task you’ve just completed can be un-completed by activating its checkbox again, when a bulk move, schedule or delete finishes and how many tasks it touched, and when a planning session moves to its next step.
These announcements are separate from Sonto’s sound effects — you’ll hear them even with sounds turned off in Settings → General.

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Switch Control and Voice Control

Sonto’s core screens name and label their controls, which is what Switch Control and Voice Control need to reach them. That includes the ones that are easy to miss: the checkbox, the weekday picker in a repeating task, the panel controls on Mac, and the action bar on iPhone.

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System settings Sonto respects

Turn these on in your device’s accessibility settings and Sonto follows them:

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Using Sonto from the keyboard

On Mac you can run Sonto entirely from the keyboard — navigating, editing, scheduling, and reordering. See Keyboard shortcuts for the full list.

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Availability

Accessibility support covers both Mac and iPhone & iPad. Text size is set inside Sonto on both.

Settings

Where text size and sound effects live.

Keyboard shortcuts

Every action from the keyboard.

Languages

The languages Sonto speaks.