Accessibility: Enable filtering out Badges, Sub-Time, and Emote text for screen readers
Hi Twitch! Screen reader users should be able to read and participate actively in chat like everyone else. However, translating chat into an audio signal is really tedious at this moment, because visual elements like all badges incl. subscriber-time of sub badges, and emotes cannot be filtered out.
Especially when a lot of hype is happening in chat, emotes can become very overbearing when read out one by one. Therefore, I'd like to request a feature with which those visual elements and emote text can be filtered out, leaving the username and chat text only for translation into an audio signal. This would highly improve the chat experience for screen reader users.
Thank you so much for considering this.
CafeEla
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SightlessKombat
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Thank you so much for considering this. As others have stated, I'd like to see emotes and badges be separate filter options for greater customisation, as though you might not need to see how long everyone has been subscribed for, you'll likely want to see emotes most of the time.
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Dengster
commented
Totally agree with this.
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pitermach
commented
I definitely agree, especially when it comes to the mod and sub badges, which coincidentally are already filtered out on the iOS app. I'd like to have a filter for badges and emotes to be separate options though as I can think of times I'd like to hear when people are sending them in less active streams.