Anyone have any tips orrecommended bots that can make navigating Discord for a first time user? I say first time, but I've dabbled with it before, but it wasn't enough to remember anything except how to DM someone.
The Discord app is pretty easy to navigate with VoiceOver.
When you have messages and servers, they appear on the left. Tapping on a server will open the channels in the center, and tapping on an unread dm conversation will open that message thread.
Tapping on a channel will then put you in that channel view, with the toggle drawer button taking you back to the server/channel screen.
I wrote a blog about using Discord on MacOS. After learning how to use it on MacOS, I found some tasks very difficult to perform on iOS. Consequently, I stick to the Mac for Discord.
The great thing about Discord is that it was originally designed by and for gamers, who love using the keyboard, so everything has a keyboard shortcut. The problem, of course, is that gamers don't use screen readers. As a result, the interface is keyboard shortcut minestrone.
Yes, sorry the subject is... screen reader click bate. I mean, I use Discord everyday. What I really meant is that you can't hope using Discord well without explore by touch. This is also unfortunately becoming true for iOS UIs themselves, but it's not the scope of this message.
I'd just add that for whatever reason, the scrollbar in the message lists is reversed with VO, so it's actually at 0% that you'll get the latest messages. This is very important to know because VO and probably most other screen readers tend to go to the bottom of the scrollbar, and this behaviour creates very interesting / buggy things when using Discord with VoiceOver.
On macOS my main problem is that VO seems to split each message in the smallest elements with vo left/right arrows being characters. But I do like on Teams, using the app own shortcuts which are quite nice, thanks god that we have f6 cross platform (speaking to you, vo+j? ...) helps a lot for navigation and the app is good enough for screen readers to work well with it. But yeah, on IOS the app works quite well.
Another random tip, use triple tap with one finger or whatever gesture you have set for long press, or double tap and hold the second press for the proper good old long press to act on a message for things like replies, reactions and etc, as the action rotor is broken, or at least it still was last time I tried the action rotor 3-4 months ago.
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The Discord app is pretty easy to navigate with VoiceOver.
When you have messages and servers, they appear on the left. Tapping on a server will open the channels in the center, and tapping on an unread dm conversation will open that message thread.
Tapping on a channel will then put you in that channel view, with the toggle drawer button taking you back to the server/channel screen.
I hope this helps a little.
This probably won't help
I wrote a blog about using Discord on MacOS. After learning how to use it on MacOS, I found some tasks very difficult to perform on iOS. Consequently, I stick to the Mac for Discord.
The great thing about Discord is that it was originally designed by and for gamers, who love using the keyboard, so everything has a keyboard shortcut. The problem, of course, is that gamers don't use screen readers. As a result, the interface is keyboard shortcut minestrone.
You can't use Discord on iOS
Yes, sorry the subject is... screen reader click bate. I mean, I use Discord everyday. What I really meant is that you can't hope using Discord well without explore by touch. This is also unfortunately becoming true for iOS UIs themselves, but it's not the scope of this message.
I'd just add that for whatever reason, the scrollbar in the message lists is reversed with VO, so it's actually at 0% that you'll get the latest messages. This is very important to know because VO and probably most other screen readers tend to go to the bottom of the scrollbar, and this behaviour creates very interesting / buggy things when using Discord with VoiceOver.
On macOS my main problem is that VO seems to split each message in the smallest elements with vo left/right arrows being characters. But I do like on Teams, using the app own shortcuts which are quite nice, thanks god that we have f6 cross platform (speaking to you, vo+j? ...) helps a lot for navigation and the app is good enough for screen readers to work well with it. But yeah, on IOS the app works quite well.
Another random tip, use triple tap with one finger or whatever gesture you have set for long press, or double tap and hold the second press for the proper good old long press to act on a message for things like replies, reactions and etc, as the action rotor is broken, or at least it still was last time I tried the action rotor 3-4 months ago.