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Ryan M

1:10 AM

That sounds like it'd be an on-topic question to me

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A. B.

2:30 AM

Thanks for the response! Well, I'm not sure whether I could live up to the "displays research effort; is useful and clear".

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A. B.

4:22 AM

Hmm, I did do a little looking up and it seems they actually do, under both UK and USA law.
https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/guides/disabled-access-to-websites-under-uk-law
https://info.webusability.co.uk/blog/what-is-the-law-on-accessibility
https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/
(posted partly so I can get hold of them again myself.)

It seems there's a set of guidelines written by one of those Internet standards organisations, which doesn't actually have legal force but in court if a company can show that their website complies with it they're probably OK.

I think it could say more about animations (I've seen a number of other people on the autistic spectrum besides me say that they have trouble with those - many of them on Discord's user forum!), but as it is, Discord is already breaking it in several places, even the lowest level (they have three levels of accessibility standards).

What anyone could do about this, short of taking Discord to court, is another question.

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