New font hurts to read.

I am a dyslexic and autistic man, and attempting to read even screenshots of the new update hurts my eyes and is capable of giving me a migraine. If I can't read my messages, what is the point of using an application? The previous fonts (and color) were much more friendly to those of us who use Discord who are disabled, and it feels ostracizing as a longtime user of the application to have a once very accessible app suddenly become nearly unusable. There should be an accessibility toggle for Discord (classic) to make the application still usable for a great deal of people. I really hope you guys are paying attention to your community begging you to fix this, and will take steps to ensure this can happen. I don't have any other major messaging platforms I use (Skype fell out of fashion as I started using Discord, and I don't use Whatsapp or anything really, and I have most of my friends on the platform only. I don't want to have to choose to not talk to my friends all over because I can't look at the new version without feeling horrible. I love Discord. It's a very good platform. Please don't keep it inaccessible and bad. Please.

ad-astra

May 17, 2021 14:36

I noticed that Discord replied to someone’s concerns about accessibility with a feedback form! I filled it out already, so I hope others in do and share it with friends as well to let them know how inaccessible and garish the new colors, font, etc. are for users.

Link to their tweet about it: https://twitter.com/discord/status/1392869194413355009
Link to their Google form feedback itself: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdTzNbITTRx4BYWFlC3gi_lEi3D3rsa9VCBK_EphF5myDb7uw/viewform

They claim accessibility is taken very seriously, so let’s be sure to inform them of how difficult these new changes are for people.

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