[1878] Let users override or disable custom profile themes for accessibility
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Fusl
The new profile themes allow users to choose arbitrary colors for text, buttons, icons, and backgrounds. Some combinations can make functional UI difficult or impossible to read, for example, white text on a bright yellow button.
This is primarily a readability and visual-comfort issue. Poor contrast can affect users with low vision, color-vision deficiencies, migraines, light sensitivity, or other visual-processing difficulties. It can also be especially uncomfortable in VR headsets.
Please add an accessibility option that lets viewers override custom profile themes with VRChat's default colors. Ideally, this would include a global toggle to show/hide custom profile themes, automatic use of default colors when a high-contrast accessibility mode is enabled, or contrast validation in the theme editor to prevent unreadable combinations.
Profile customization is a nice form of self-expression, but the viewer's accessibility and readability preferences should take priority over another user's theme.
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Lightspill
Giving every user a 'Profile override' check that forces it to match the rest of their color scheme, and means to set that color-scheme arbitrarily are the bare minimum for accessibility.
Mithostropic
It's really frustrating that y'all don't seem to want to add a setting to disable this. I have friends who are visually impaired and I can guarantee that this will make their VRChat experience much worse. There is no reason leave out a setting to disable this.
juneforfun
Any sort of affecs that display that overlays text makes it hard for me to read. It can also hurt my eyes alot from strain.
32294
I have dsylexia and i already have a hard time reading text in VR (and i have a BSB2e which has no SDE, so it's not because of my headset), the different colors themselves aren't that much of a problem for me so far but the profile effect animations make it nearly impossible for me to read a profile while in VR...
Please add an accessibility toggle, i beg you. Accessibility standards for exist for a reason... please follow them!
Uvita666
Who approved this absolute garbage anyway?
My god, if the vomit inducing Discord design wasn't enough it also has reading issues. I can barely read on my 24' 1080p monitor.
Why releases shit like this?
PumpkinPie_Pup
The amount of things they glossed over and didn’t think about before pushing this update is actually awful. Yes, Unity‑6 runs a bit better, but that didn’t require a whole redesign of the menu and profile system. Just because you can update something because you personally think it’s better doesn’t mean the player base or community feels the same way. It honestly feels like the people who decided this was a “good idea” knew very well their wallets would like it more than the players they were pushing it onto.
The redesign does nothing for the social tabs other than complicate the way things look, feel, and function. Even the redesign of the overhead nameplate is not well thought through; people’s group statuses and pronouns are all squished together, making them harder to see and read. For a game named after talking and finding friends on a VR platform, the decision to add features that shouldn’t—and are not—the main focus of the gameplay leaves a bad aftertaste and an even worse outlook on the direction the developers are actively taking the game.
「Jаy」
Just saw the new nameplates/profile icons on the website because I think a dev made an oopsie and forgot to turn them off, which I assume will be added later, forcing them on everyone without even offering a way to disable them is a baffling decision.
Fusl
For reference, this is what 「Jаy」 is talking about.
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〘Awooo〙
Tupper - VRChat Head of Community If that is direction we are taking. Might as well just slap on Ad's everywhere and call it job well done.
Uvita666
〘Awooo〙Honestly, had they kept the old UI and put some McDonalds ad somewhere it would have been better than this awful redesign
What a way to ruin a nice interface
〘Awooo〙
Uvita666 For real. Ad on on loading screan would not kill me as much as this pile of hot mess
kazin138
"You can have any color you want, so long as it's animated flashing rainbows."
Great.
ColonelPannick
Pretty obvious VRC is not going to make any of the dumb crap you're selling disable-able. Maybe you can sell us vrc+++ and allow that? Love to see the annoying, intrusive and overly flashy leave animations go away too. Maybe after one gives someone a seizure. It's as visually irritating as the particle spam cannons.
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