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[Accessibility] [Player Safety] Toggle missing to disable screenshot flash for photosensitive users

Partner Rank: High

Verification Builds: 1.21.30 / 27834210

Regression Builds: Unknown

Summary: A "disable screenshot flash" toggle is missing in the in-game settings, which can be harmful to users with photosensitivity.

Affects currently Live Content: Yes (all)

Impact: The flash can trigger photosensitive reactions, such as epilepsy or migraines, potentially presenting a safety risk for affected players.

Repro Steps:

  1. Capture a screenshot in-game.
  2. Observe the bright flash on the screen.
  3. Check the in-game settings menu and options.txt file for a toggle to disable the flash (none exists).

Observed Results:

  1. A bright flash occurs when a screenshot is taken, with no option to disable it.
  2. On mobile, the toast message is covered by the emote/chat/menu button.
  3. The height of the toast is taller than it needs to be.

Expected Results: Settings should include a toggle to disable the flash for players sensitive to sudden bright lights. The toast indicating a screenshot has been taken is more than enough to indicate a captured screenshot.

Screenshots/Videos attached:

Notes:

  • The flash is particularly bad when the player is immersed in somewhere dark (when it is night, in a cave, deep dark, the end, etc)
  • I do not consider this a feature request; it's a critical piece of missing functionality that should have been in this release that is paramount to player safety.
  • I have been asked by Jake to post this in Jira (link)

Unresolved

57Digital

2024-09-25, 08:48 AM

2024-09-25, 09:11 PM

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