Especially with the endless amount of animated GIF and emoji content.įortunately, there is an option to disable autoplaying both GIFs and animated emoji. If you have been on pretty busy Discord servers before, you know that the amount of messaging happening can get quite overwhelming. You can either set the dedicated Enable Reduced Motion to on or make Discord sync itself with your system setting for reduced motion. For example, shift or slide animations are replaced with pure fade animations (similar to how iOS handles this). This keeps Discord’s UI animations to a minimum. You can enable Reduced Motion in the accessibility settings menu. The text and UI contrasts in both themes are very similar, and we will look at them in more detail in a later section. There is an extra toggle for keeping the sidebar dark when using a light theme. Discord's theming options consist of a radio button group with three choices: Dark, Light, Sync with computer. Yes, as of this writing, has that same problem. That means there is either no integration of the system setting at all, or no option to revert to the system setting after picking a preference via a toggle button. This tri-state of theming options (light/dark/system) is often lacking in most websites, which generally only provide a toggle button for a binary state (light and dark). What’s good to see is that the app also provides an option to sync the theme with your system settings for theming. Theme OptionsĪs it is quite usual these days, Discord comes with two main themes. The chat area gets so narrow that the input field displays characters below each other while typing. If you combine the smallest window size with 200% zoom, things can get a bit messy. Most of the things still stay usable, but they get very (!) crammed together.
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You can create some messier scenarios where the layout breaks, by going full 200% zoom and resizing the app to a narrower window size. Everything is still clearly readable and nothing is cut off.Īs long as you keep the window sufficiently big, everything is still readable and nothing is cut off. You can scale up to 200% without running into problems. This is akin to browser zoom, if not even technically the same thing. On top of the chat font size scaling, there is a separate slider for scaling the whole Discord UI.
The rest of the UI can be altered with the next setting. The font size setting is for text chat only. In order to make chat even more readable, there is another setting slider for scaling the space between message groups. Set at the maximum of 24px you can check the larger appearance of chat text as a preview at the top. Chat font scaling can be adjusted with a slider. You can even scale the font smaller if you prefer to do so. The font size options range from your typical default of 16px up to 24px chat font size. So it should not be a surprise that there is a setting for scaling the font size for chat text. One of the main purposes of the app is reading and writing chat messages.
The same goes for video games by the way as I wrote in Options to the People. The more settings the better for different users with different needs. It also has a separate settings menu for accessibility, although some more accessibility-related settings can also be found in the Appearance menu. Settings to the Peopleĭiscord itself comes with a ton of different settings as it is quite the complex application. The following is a quick check based on the Discord desktop app on macOS. Spoiler alert: Apart from one big issue, it’s looking really good. Since I am using Discord quite extensively, I gave it a go and did my usual accessibility quick check. At least compared to a lot of the web (or even app) world. Some Electron app highlights that I am using daily, like Slack, Spotify, Visual Studio Code, and Discord - despite being quite complex applications - have decent accessibility. While Electron-based apps are often criticized for their performance or just for not being “native” enough for the system they run on, there are a couple of apps that are quite successful and immensely popular.
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