This new expansion hates old people

[Yonbi-illidan (Yonbi)]

@Thallia-sentinels

You’re literally saying that people can’t use the new UI editing because they can’t read it.

That was a joke we’ve moved past ages ago.

What I am telling you is that there is no simple way to modify the the text without resizing the entire screen or just going back to addons.

@Thallia-sentinels

I literally showed you the size of that UI editing. Stop looking at it in a small window and open it up to cover the whole screen, genius.

Again, you have done nothing other than try to berate me and keep pointing back to a setting that I’ve told you repeatedly does not solve the problem.

@Thallia-sentinels

And if you can’t figure out a freaking font folder that we’ve been able to do for over a decade, that’s your own fault.

Dude, seriously? How is this a “good user experience”? Go and start tweaking system settings at the file system level.

Especially considering this…

@Venthos-pagle

Short Answer: Yes

Long Answer: Blizzard has many, many times and in no uncertain terms labeled client asset modification as a bannable offense. Yes, even the purely aesthetic and non-gameplay changing ones. Why? Because it is not simple, realistic, or worth the development time to attempt to modify an anti-cheat system to determine if a client file modification is truly innocent in nature or not.

You’re going to get caught up in simply “You modified a thing, we told you to not modify things, now you’re banned.” situation. Definitely not worth.

The “maybe” is because I’m sure there’s certain key files they hold more weight towards and are more likely to ban if they see being tinkered around with, and such bans also tend to go out in “waves” so it’s not something you can immediately affirm as “safe” or not.

remember C’thun skip. Pepperidge farm remembers.

Now editing map assets is bannable, but they also weren’t keen on other more benign aesthetic things.

So maybe fonts lives in a weird grey area.

@Jalanili-moon-guard

It was super fun to find, because all the options are mixed around and in new places now, and despite having a search function putting in “resize” and “ui” both don’t bring anything up. But if you go to Options > Graphics there’s a box you can check for “Use UI Scale” which can then be moved up and down. 100% is HUGE. I usually roll at 75%:

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You’ll note that at first this will make everything HUGE. But from here, now you can go into Edit Mode and make the action bars and other resizeable elements smaller.

That should make things comfortable again.

They’ve also, I noted, made the contrast on the menu options in the lower right slightly better, and also re-added hover-over text that was missing for a while.

This seems to be how you properly address the problem. Scale everything to get text larger, but then go into edit mode to make the action bars, etc. smaller again. So kudos on the find.

Or again, just use addons.

But back to my original point, it shouldn’t be this difficult in a “revamped” ui that is supposed to include more “accessibility options”.

We’ve had this type of discussion before: Bad eyesight - any way to make text bigger? - #24 by Melôdy-whisperwind