Built for everyone

A group chat only works if the whole group can use it. Both halves of that are commitments here.

Whatever you own

Eleven started because a kid’s friends didn’t all own the same brand of device — so this one is a commitment, not a feature: no member of your group is ever second-class because of what’s in their pocket.

• Any browser is a first-class app. Not a cut-down companion — the whole thing, on any laptop, Chromebook, Android phone, or borrowed library computer, with push notifications and all.
• Native apps where they make it nicer. A real Mac app and a real iPhone app, native where it matters — in the feels — and tiny (megabytes, not hundreds of them), so they run happily on older hardware too.
• Feature parity is a rule of the house. Inside this project, a change isn’t "done" when it works on one platform — it ships to web and native together, and the two native apps keep pace with each other. No platform gets the leftovers.
• Cheap devices are welcome devices. Because everything is small and fast, Eleven feels quick on modest hardware and thin connections — which is also why it’s light on the planet. Efficiency and inclusion are the same engineering.

However you use it

The accessibility bar is written down and held on every change: all web surfaces target WCAG 2.2 Level AA — the current W3C recommendation, and the level the world’s accessibility laws converge on — and the native apps target the same bar through Apple’s platform features. In practice:

• Keyboard first. Everything reachable and operable without a mouse, with a visible focus indicator that panels and menus never trap or lose.
• Screen readers are members too. Controls are labelled, state is announced, and the native apps carry full VoiceOver support.
• Your eyes, your settings. Adjustable text size in the apps, support for the largest Dynamic Type sizes on iOS, and contrast that holds in light and dark across every theme.
• Motion is optional. The ambient effects — including the smoke behind this page — stop under Reduce Motion, and nothing meaningful is ever conveyed by animation or colour alone.
• Fingers of all sizes. Generous touch targets, and no gesture without a plain-tap alternative.

We’re honest about the gap between the bar and any given day’s reality: accessibility issues are bugs. If something gets in your way, tell us and we’ll fix it: team@elevenmessenger.com.

Why this page exists

Accessibility and multi-platform usually die the same death: "later". Writing them down as commitments — next to the openness charter — is how we make "later" embarrassing.