My eyesight sucks and I have ADHD and dyslexia, so reading chat is already hard. I have my second monitor set to 200% text scaling just to be able to read it while streaming.

There’s been so many times I’ve missed that different people have chatted because their usernames “blend in” - ie, for whatever reason a lot of people have their names set to that “dingy” teal which doesn’t contrast well. Add lowercase long-ish usernames, and I’m really slowing down to keep track of who’s who. Same for raids, when a bunch of unfamiliar usernames come blazing into chat.

(It’s pretty mortifying to notice that you’ve missed the fact that they’re someone else, or actually multiple people, because you got confused.)

If there could be a way to use a streamer-picked “color palette” to (randomly?) assign as a way to “highlight” their usernames, I’d feel so much more at ease.

(My color palette would be darker desaturated colors so I don’t sear my eyeballs.)

A subtle indicator that their username is ‘ye’ long with a glance at my second monitor, with different blocks of color behind individual usernames... that would seriously help people like me and anyone else who might have difficulties with sight, reading, and processing information.

I wouldn’t mind if it didn’t “stick” to a person’s username between streams. It would be pretty cool to allow followers to choose their highlight (lowlight?) knowing that it helps me out, though.

In lieu of that... symbols? Indentation? Just something to break it up into something more distinct for us small streamers? Please, Twitch?

I can’t express how difficult and awful it feels to struggle with the most quintessential aspect of twitch...

Problem:
- Search for "declare yourself autistic twitch tv" and no expected results will come.

• The BIG issue:
  
  
  • TWTV has grown up and its too huge, there is not enough ppl on the earth that can track down what is being said,
    who is about to commit a crime, who is about to harass someone. That's why we should focus on the "system" itself.
    I am first focusing on the ppl with autism, the most sensible people, the others should be next.
  
  
  
  

Major characteristics for people at the classic side of the autism spectrum that can manifest on TWTV:
- They don't wanna that other users recognize them as an autistic, they don't wanna have a special treatment. But they should be.
- They have issues recolonizing harassment, cause they don't think that people would see then as a treat.
- Most of then like to accumulate anger inside, cause even tho they can't truly recognize a harassment, they can feel it.

Thoughts:
- People should be able to self declarative autistic when they register (a checkbox).
- New users that have are already registered should be asked if they have any
mental/physical difficulty on a new modal when they open the twitch (even on the app).
- You guys don't ask the age of the user, you should starting getting it soon. (I remember that you guys used to ask that, why did you stop?)
- The leak of the personal state (physical/mental condition of the user) of the user by a streamer should be a reason for punishment (30 ban maybe?)
if the person that has the data leaked feels damage somehow.

My Personal solution, as if I worked for TWTV:
- Make a new terms of service exclusive for people with autism, also create the following scheme:
- Disable private messages automatically for their profile.
- Display a big RED warning to those that want to tag someone with autism on the chat,

the message should say something "Be careful with what you are saying, this person has a special condition".

• Make impossible to track how many Austin users are on TWTV thought the API


• Hide bad words by default for those that have self declared autistic.


• Make a new icon that would be the first displayed for the user that have self declared autistic an [A] only for
  the streamer chat, the normal chat should not be display the [A]
  
  
  • A new option for the streamer should appear (a toggle) that would display all the social/physical difficulty for
    his users (I am thinking that in a near future other problems such ADHD would be implemented as well with its own
    particular solutions)
  
  
  
  

Overall View:
- People with autism should definitely have a special treatment cause they have always have a different vision, they are thinking
one step ahead, most of the times but some times they are really behind tho. And is in that area that we can help them.
That's why we should act, as a community, as a group, and build space for then to have a have a better mental health and let then show how beautiful
they really are. How their lens in their eyes are different and how everyone that hear their words feels special, just like they are.

If this idea is non-viable, or it can't be done for now, let me now.
(ps* sorry if I have made any coercion mistakes or Grammatical mistakes, I am not
a native English speaker)

I'm experiencing an issue on Android 11 where the volume coming from any and all streams through the Twitch mobile app is distinctly quiet to the point of being inaudible unless I set my phone to max volume. This has caused intense usability and accessibility issues on my Android mobile phone as I have to set my phone to max volume to be able to hear any Twitch channel through speakers and/or headphones which causes intense pain when using any other sound/voice app such as Discord, messaging apps, etc. Is there a way the Twitch mobile app's volume can be better adjusted along with an in-app volume slider? I love Twitch and want to be able to watch streams and use chatting services simultaneously but this distinctly low default audio from the app is concerning.

I need you to understand something, Twitch. I am autistic. I have visual and audio hypersensitivity issues. When I go to look at VODs while the livestream is going, the livestream plays behind the VOD thumbnails. It defaults to playing with audio on. There does not even appear to be the basic option of a pause button. The only way to pause is to click the stream which brings it do the front, then pause, then hit the back button to get back to where you were.

I cannot stress enough how completely and utterly terrible this design is. I literally cannot use this ui. I would go so far as to call it a crime against usability and yes I know that is hyperbole and I don't even care anymore. It is a HUGE accessibility issue for me. Please provide an option to disable this functionality and return to the old UI method of only showing the livestream when you are on the livestream page.

I actually cannot imagine who this design even benefits. If I am looking at VODs it is because I want to watch those, not the livestream. Furthermore, I frequently follow tournaments on twitch, and want to watch VODs I missed without literally being spoiled by the current match loading itself automatically in the background with no way to turn it off except going to the stream and absolutely being spoiled. Seriously, why was this even done.

If there is already an option to disable this I apologize, but in all my searching I could not find it. If this is not the appropriate place for this feedback I am also sorry but this is where your help site put me so this is where I am posting it. You have successfully made a huge portion of your site unusable for me, and I desperately need you to give me (and others like me who deal with these issues) a way to disable this.

I, like many other people, enjoy listening to streams before bed and often fall asleep to them. The problem is since Twitch is a streaming app it doesn't auto shut off. This means the stream will keep on running while I sleep. Sometimes I wake up and my phone has been running for eight hours straight because I didn't exit Twitch before sleeping. I think you should add a toggleable auto shut off feature that turns a stream off after 30 minutes. It should be toggleable so people can turn it off. Please add this, it would be a great addition! Especially for people who listen with only audio!