[2019] Visually impaired trying to play MTG Arena

Hello all! I'm just getting started at NTG/MTG Arena. I've always liked the idea of the game, but the tiny text boxes and the fast pace kinda scared me off. Now with the Arena I want to give it a try.

Thing is, I have very low vision (around 5-7%) and I'm having some troubles. The game is beautiful and the cards are displayed very big, which is great, but the art and the colors plus the key information not being displayed that big make it really hard for me to read them. Aside grim that, the time limit for completing my turn is kind of a deal-breaker for me.

Ice been trying to contact WotC but it is surprisingly hard to get to actually talk with someone there. Does anyone know of any accessibility feature besides the ones listed under "Vision" on the main menu? Does anyone know how to effectively contact WotC?

Thanks!

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There have been a lot of good suggestions here. Familiarity with the cards will definitely help. For the timer, direct/friend challenge games and not games against Sparky don’t have a timer.

On general assistance for the visually impaired, please let me know more about what would help you here (and the things currently there that help; your comment in sound cues is already making me think about ways we might be able to make them more useful). I’m really interested in anything you could share on this (either comment here or PM me if you’d rather). We definitely want to make the game accessible to all players, but it’s hard/expensive to get good insight into every different case.

Glad you’re enjoying the game, and please tell me more about how we can help.

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