Discord’s Inaccessible

houseburning:

lb-lee:

Spreading the word from @okami-no-mure.  They said:

So. Discord, the wildly popular chat program isn’t accessible for
visually impaired persons. Not even the phone app is accessible.

People
have put up requests for accessibility, but the devs call it a “quality
of life"feature, and actually had the balls to suggest to a totally
blind Mac user that he should just use Zoom instead of Voiceover. For
those of you who don’t know, Zoom is a program that greatly increases
the size of text. So, it’s the equivalent of telling a deaf person to
just turn their computer volume up.

But, they say that if they
can get enough upvotes, then they’ll consider the feature. So, I’m going
to share their idea, because I’ve been fighting with Discord all day
because literally nothing is accessible beyond creating an account and
changing a few user settings and all of us are frustrated.

So, if
people would be so kind as to upvote this feature request or leave
comments that say you think that an app which has a focus on community
shouldn’t segregate part of that community, we’d be mighty grateful.

Here is the request page.

please, if you use discord at all, just hop over, log in, and upvote that link. it’s unbelievable that a text-and-voice chat client is inaccessible to the visually impared because the developers can’t be bothered to add in the extra code. and they don’t even consider it a priority to add features to increase their own userbase. please upvote, even if you don’t leave a comment!