Some people enjoy watching streams of games they enjoy/have an interest in purchasing but don't want to follow that specific channel (for whatever reason).
However, there's a certain little pop-up that covers the bottom portion of the stream, pointing at the follow button, that says "Come here often? Come back to [insert Streamers name here] channel FASTER by hitting that follow button" (with a bunch of hands pointing down at the follow button like we can't see it).

See, some of us just want to watch a stream, chill out and not feel pressured to follow/sub/whatever and I wouldn't have a problem with the pop-up so much IF it only showed up once per stream .. but it seems to show up every few minutes.. pressuring you to follow.. insulting you for not following.. why haven't you followed?.. you're still here, you should follow..
Follow..
Follow..
FOLLOW NOW!!!
WHY HAVEN'T YOU FOLLOWED YET?? You JERK!!!...
...
MAYBE... because everyone has follow alerts. So, IF you follow then you announce your presense, which the streamer tends to try to strike up conversations, and you feel pressure to say more... which is fine and dandy. It's kind of the point of broadcasting yourself. You want interaction. but sometimes, as a viewer, you want to just lurk, and the constant pressure to follow does a number on those with social anxiety who want to .. just Lurk

I use a TTS reader to read chat to my headphones, and mix it in with game audio and music. I've toyed with running two concurrent streams from my computer so that legally blind viewers could open both and have chat read to them in real-time, but it hasn't been stable enough. Not sure if possible, but if a secondary audio channel could be utilized by the broadcaster, those needing chat read to them could turn it on and control its volume to be able to keep up with chat.

Alternatively, an in-page TTS reader might also be a good solution. Again, not sure how feasible, but it would be lovely.

The way Twitch currently works, it is very hard for an audience member to know if a stream they are entering could contain flashing images or lights. This is especially dangerous to viewers with a sensitivity to light. It could cause physical discomfort, pain, and in extreme cases death. Creators can be nice and warn their audience, however since new viewers can join at any time it is unreasonable to place the burden of constant warnings on a creator. So how do we fix it?
I propose a new simple feature that can create mass warning and help prevent this issue in the first place
Creators can check a box before beginning a stream that says something similar to "content may contain flashing images/lights." If this box has been marked, when a viewer enters the stream a pop-up will appear displaying the message. The pop-up needs to be closed via an "x" symbol to ensure sensitive viewers see the message. However this can be annoying and offputting to viewers without light sensitivities. On the audience side, a new setting under "preferences" appears. This turns the feature off for those who dont need it. The setting says something like
"Warn me about flashing images on/off."
However the default is the setting on so that light sensitive viewers know about the setting. To ensure non-sensative viewers know the warnings can be disabled, the pop-up also displays a separate message which says "these warnings may be turned off in settings." Lastly some creators may not mark a stream as containing flashing images. While it is impossible to rectify all cases of this it is easy to regulate some of it. If a game contains a flashing light warning and the streamer has selected that game as the stream category than the stream will automatically be marked and warn viewers.
While its absurd to ask creators to be responsible for these warnings as viewers are constantly joining at different points, a new feature similar to this one would improve the lives of many and make Twitch a more accessible platform.

Hello,

My deaf friend and I have a helpful idea for deaf twitch users. We think deaf users should have a deaf badge to let everyone know that we are deaf. Streamers and viewers will know we are deaf and other people are deaf too. I don’t have to type I’m deaf like 3-5 times. My username looks like normal as everyone else and they will quickly know my ears are actually broken. My username is MadFlyTTV_SiN. I am a deaf streamer and a viewer too. I have had difficult time to reach some streamers who dint know that I am deaf. I often commented that I am deaf but they didn’t notice until I have sent several messages. Some streamers never catch my messages at all, like I’m a ghost. I didn’t understand what they said which prevents me from enjoying being on Twitch. Some viewers literally asked me, “ are your speakers broken or don’t you know how to talk?” Nobody knows that I am deaf. It’s really painful for everyone who are deaf viewers. I hope I will receive a response email from you.

Thank you and Best regards,
MadFlyTTV_SiN

I've noticed that closed captioning automatically filters swearing. To be honest, this is less than ideal. It assumes your hard of hearing and hearing impaired users need to have language filtered for them, to a standard which non-hearing impaired users don't. An important part is all language translated accurately as possible, otherwise you are directly deciding what language is more important for the disabled client. If a person wants to engage with streamers that swear it should be their choice whether or not they want to see that content, not chosen for them.

Please note: How to handle slurs within closed captioning is a topic of debate, and I do not mean those, I mean words like **** and ****. If these words are okay for twitch, they should be okay for disabled people to have transcribed.

Selectable font sizes for chat that are separate from zooming the entire page with Ctrl+Mousewheel Up would be awesome, even if they don't evenly break. A really cool idea that I've had for a while is actively scaling text fonts, so things like "lol" fill the width of the chat frame, as opposed to longer messages being somewhat smaller.

Additionally to this, simple color-specific modes for different eye conditions - black on yellow, high contrast white on black, yellow on blue - would be immensely helpful.

A pie in the sky addition to this would be selectively highlighting chat messages from established friends or the broadcaster, or highlighting messages from VIP's for the broadcaster if they are the visually impaired one.

Currently there is only 3 text alignment where you can only select "Left, Center, or Right" so whenever you select neither of them, the captions does not line up neatly to the same width of the box.

We should have another option called Justify where it would line up all the text nicely which is more tidy, what justify looks like can be seen here - https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/playit.asp?filename=playcss_text-align&preval=justify

Also, I'm surprised that dyslexia font is not included in the font section. Please add dyslexia font, it will be beneficial for those people as well.

What do you guys think? I would love to see those options added in the Closed Captions Options.

The editable portion of the chat box contains not just the edit area but a bits button and an emote button. Typing on mobile can be tough and often I want to edit my message before posting to fix typos. After making edits in the middle of the message I often want to go to the end of the message and fix the last word or add something to the message.

The problem? It's very difficult, even if using a stylus, to get the edit caret to the end of the text because the bits button is there.

Since mobile devices have to use touch points, we need to have a bit of additional space between the end of the editable area and the bits button so that we can actually edit the end of the message. This is an issue Slack had when it put buttons in the edit box and was able to fix by making the edit area a bit shorter and the buttons a bit further to the right of the end of the edit box.

I am requesting the addition of some tappable space between the end of the editable area and the bits button. Alternately maybe the bits button could move somewhere else, although I'm no sure where and we wouldn't want the same issue with just the emote button. I know it's valuable real estate, but accidentally hitting the bits button over and over again while trying to edit text is extremely frustrating. This could also be considered an accessibility issue.

Thank you for your consideration!