December 19th, 2019
Q&A: Colour blind accessibility stuff?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4TS6nRxy9k
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Nathalie
Not that much anymore, but
Jace
yeah.
And Tom is asking about how it's like the colorblind accessibility stuff.
Nathalie
So the colors that we use in our UI, we mainly use orange, white, dark gray, and light gray.
And the way we've set up those colors is that they would work no matter what contrast or the color blindness type that you have.
It would work.
You would still be able to distinguish those colors.
But sometimes we run into the issue that like the dark grey and light grey are not clear enough or it's very boring to use the same orange and the same grey all the time.
So we've been like slightly introducing different colours and we've talked about a colour blindness mode but I don't think it's super necessary right now because of how we've built it up with the colours that we're using basically.
Jace
If that makes sense.
Just gotta wave I guess some feedback on that I suppose.
Yeah, exactly.
But
Nathalie
I did a little Twitter thread and we had a lot of good comments of the colors you're using.
Snutt
So one thing I'd like to announce that we haven't really said, I think, is the fact that we had some accessibility issues when we launched the game.
And I think in the recent experimental version, we've added a few tiny things that really makes a difference, I think.
Nathalie
So we have a little high contrast mode.
I see that people can't hear me well, so...
Snutt
Gotta talk louder
Nathalie
this way.
Hey!
So we have a little high contrast mode for certain UI elements like the compass and the hotbar.
So you can like, there's a slider to adjust the contrast for those things in the UI.
Then we have like a big inventory mode.
So you have like large inventory slots or small ones.
We're also doing an experimental version of directional subtitles.
So if you're hard of hearing, basically we have like little subtitles that tell you what kind of sound and on what direction it is.
And yeah, we're experimenting with more stuff.
Cool.
Snutt
Super cool.