Nice concern trolling. I’m disabled and disagree with the OP. The OP also didn’t share any medical history beyond “I’m disabled”.
The disabled community often needs the abled to help speak on our behalf because we are the most ignored group of people in the US. We need advocates and allies where we can get them.
Do some of the people who take up our causes do it for dubious reasons? Sure, but we can usually use the exposure.
However, I’m glad the OP wants to gatekeep how we speak up and who speaks up for us. That’s not cruddy at all.
My biggest worry is that all of the complaints about WeakAuras and such being removed will drown out all the disabled voices sharing what their accessibility needs are.
Like that is what people should really be using their voice as allies to do: boost what is missing baseline in the game that would help make the game more accessible for people with disabilities. It’s clear that Blizzard is taking the time to add that to the game baseline right now, and it’s a great opportunity to get that added so people never have to worry about third party sources to provide that for them ever again.
Great, this is the one I read. This thread doesn’t say anything in depth. Regardless, you didn’t address the actual point of my post, you went for the gotcha.
The OP telling us to shut up and send an email is pretty hilarious.
The email is a tool to help people with disabilities form a direct line of communication with the game devs. Kinda weird to speak about it in that tone. idk.
Is this in response to that person who made a thread about Undaunted? I didn’t respond because I feel like it is good to make it known, but at the same time if it’s coming from a place of using people’s condition for an internet “own” while this hysteria is going on then it’s kinda gross. Either way I agree with the overall message that I’d rather read about it from the people directly affected. And some of them have spoken up (via reddit) and expressed their annoyance at how they weren’t invited for alpha to test the features.
Still waiting to see. It’s going to take some time for the API changes to develop further before I know what affects me.
Right now, the things I know I’m losing are mostly QoL stuff through WAs, like Bountiful Delves Tracker. One I don’t know if I can adapt to losing is the type of bars I had for DoT timers.
I know what my guildies are losing for accessibility in WAs, but that’s their story to tell.
It’s hard guys/gals, I can only make my thoughts known on the forums or to the accessibility team, but just found out I can’t do both. Unless I’ve had my disability certified by concern trolls on the wow forums.
Sorry Flower, you’re generally pleasant and didn’t mean you were trolling, I replied to the wrong post.
You can certainly do both, I don’t think the OP argued for that. From what it looked like to me is that OP was arguing in favor of actually listening to the concerns of disabled players when it comes to accessibility challenges, instead of just speaking over them and not actually addressing any of the actual challenges they face.
I agree. I think they’re trying to redesign the game the way it was originally intended to be without the necessity of external add-ons. As long as something on the internal UI functions the way it should there shouldn’t be a need for add-ons. Personally, I don’t do any high-end content simply because I understand my limitations. But it just aggravates me when people use other people as a prop in their own play.
i’m not standing up for anybody but myself. But I am calling out people who are using other people for their own agenda. They are welcome to defend their need to use add-ons and their disabilities and how they interact with their gameplay. I’m not going to speak for them, but I am going to speak up and say something that I think it’s despicable people would use other people‘s abilities to push an agenda.
