Questions
The honest answers.
What Meet My Menu can do, what it cannot, and where it gets the menu in the first place.
Using it
You should be able to go from sitting down to asking a question in under a minute.
Do I need to download anything?
No. Meet My Menu runs in your phone browser. Open app.meetmymenu.com and start.
How do I get a menu into it?
Three ways. Scan the printed menu on your table with your phone camera, search for the restaurant by name, or paste a link to a menu page.
Scanning gives spoken guidance while it lines up the page, so you are not guessing where to hold the phone.
Can I look at a menu before I leave the house?
Yes. Search for the restaurant and go through the menu ahead of time. Deciding at home is often easier than deciding at a table with people waiting.
Does it work with VoiceOver?
It is built around listening, speaking, and screen-reader navigation rather than being a visual app with accessibility bolted on afterwards. Controls carry meaningful labels and headings follow a useful order.
If something does not work with your setup, that is worth telling us about. Real screen-reader testing catches things automated checks never will.
Allergens and accuracy
The part where being wrong actually matters, so read this one.
Can it tell me whether a dish is safe for my allergy?
No, and it should not claim to. What it does is surface the ingredient and allergen information it can find, so you know what to ask about.
Confirm with restaurant staff before you order. A menu does not know what happened in the kitchen.
Will it always have the whole menu?
No. A restaurant page might list only lunch. A photo can cut off the bottom of a page. Search can turn up last year's menu.
Meet My Menu is built to say when it may not have everything, so you can scan another page, search again, or ask staff.
What happens when it is not sure?
It should say so. A confident-sounding answer is worse than useless when the menu underneath does not support it, so uncertainty gets spoken out loud rather than hidden.
The project
Who is this for?
Blind and low-vision diners who would rather explore a menu themselves than have someone read all of it out. Everything else follows from that.
How can I help?
Use it on a real menu and tell us what got in the way. If you run a restaurant or an accessibility organization, there is a separate way in.