I’d like to propose an improvement upon the recently introduced accessibility badges, the ones indicating if a viewer can only (partially) hear or see a broadcast.

User experience and in extend accessibility is there to remove cognitive friction while using an product or service. Accessibility features are for everyone, not just the people that rely on them.

Everyone profits from accessibility features, but for people to experience them they need to be discoverable. So I’d like to propose the following:

Add the option to automatically switch on/off audio-only badge, if it isn’t set by default, when a user consumes a broadcast while in (mobile) audio-only mode.

This way the accessibility feature is more discoverable, since more users will stumble across it in chats.

Furthermore, it also easier as a user to convey to a broadcaster that they are currently unable to view the stream.