Accessibility option : freeze or disable some animated graphics

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This is an idea for the mattermost desktop client but is probably applicable to other clients.

It would be nice to provide the option for a user to disable or freeze animated items in the interface.

There are various places where other users can put animated elements in mattermost, in the content, in a room description, in the reactions through animated emojis, and even in the user status again with animated emojis. This can be distracting for users that want to have the mattermost client open on a second screen for example. I think this is an accessibility feature and would be important for people with attention difficulties.

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Hi @arthurzenika and welcome to the Mattermost forums!

I’d also love to see a feature like that, I will never understand why some people use animated emojis for their custom status :-/ Not sure if anything like that is being worked on - @amy.blais do you know, maybe?

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I agree, need to allow disable of other people’s animated emojis. VERY distracting and could affect those with disabilities.

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Signed up in order to add my support for this request, as the animated emoji/reactions are extremely distracting for me. Personally I would be satisfied with a middle ground such as if the reaction only animated for a few seconds then paused, and maybe resumed any time the mouse is over the related post.

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https://mattermost.uservoice.com/forums/306457-general is another place to suggest features like this.

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Thanks! I was briefly confused trying login, not immediately realizing it was a different web site, but ultimately I found two existing suggestions related to this, and voted for both:

  • Ability to disable rendering of animated emoji, or to hide posts, to improve performance
  • Limit number of times animated emoji will loop