Accessibility and CVAA Compliance: Many Visual Elements of the Game too Hard to See

astarinice

We've been having a conversation in guild about Ashes' accessibility and CVAA compliance - as several members expressed difficulty with the UI, graphics, font sizing, and more. Initially I thought it was just me who was having issues with the game, but others on much higher resolutions are as well. So I've complied some grumbling from guild members in the hopes that the team will see and address this stuff before it becomes a FCC complaint. Most of this is easily fixable.

In no particular order:

• • Rarity borders are hard to see, and the colors all bleed together. Please implement color-blind-friendly symbols for rarity. Guild member said over voice chat, "I even have an UNO deck with color-blind symbols on all the cards."
  
• • Crafting mats (like wood, lumber, flowers, runes, etc) are all visually similar or identical. Art differentiation is important, but also maybe implement tier markers?
  
• • Stack quantity is incredibly difficult to see. Please increase the font.
  
• • Combat visual effects soup:
  
• • Harvestable differentiation (give us a way to highlight a specific type of harvestable in view? Basalt, Slate, and Granite all look the same; Oak, Ash, and Willow all bleed together... etc.):
  
• • Promote/Demote confusion:
  
• • Mouse Resizing and Re-Colorization:
  
• • In game quest objects are impossible to find because of visual bleed and tiny sizes.
  

I invite others to post their UI visual issues here, too, since we're just a small sampling of the player-base.

blktauna

I can't read chat because its so tiny. Also the fonts should be san serif and outline so they show up on different sorts of backgrounds. I can't read anything and my eyestrain is bad.

bloodprophet

https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Accessibility_settings