Since a few months now some change has been made that screwed up the default Windows colorblind overlay on WoW, which I’ve used for years. I’m 99% sure it’s not on Windows’ side, because I’ve played maybe 20 games since then and not a single one has this issue.
What happens is, when the mode is on - everything in the game has the colorblind filter applied except for tooltip and some other texts. And if I turn the mode off those things get the filter applied, while the rest of the game switches off the filter, as intended. So the texts and tooltip and reversed no matter what.
I disabled all addons, did a scan and repair. Nothing has fixed this.
I don’t use WoW’s colorblind filter settings as they’re pretty bad compared to Windows’.
Any help is welcome.
Check that you don’t have any other overlays from Discord, GPU drivers etc. affecting WoW.
You should also make make a bug report in-game.
I don’t have other suggestions, but if you are unable to solve the issue I would suggest raising the issue to Blizzard’s accessibility team even though it probably won’t help you quickly as they are not tech-support or such. But if there is widespread issue it might raise awareness.
See: https://eu.battle.net/support/en/article/000244753
If you want, post your Windows version and colorblind settings so others could try and see if they can replicate the issue as well.
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Thanks for the suggestions Grelier. I went ahead and sent an email to the accessibility team and also reported an ingame bug.
I simply have Windows’ color filter on with the Red-green (green weak, deuteranopia) setting chosen. Intensity on max and color boost about 3/4ths boosted. No other settings and no ingame settings.
Since this is a Windows wide setting it gets applied to every single thing I see. That is why it’s incredibly odd to me to see something not having the filter applied. It makes no sense. Even if two filters get applied on top of each other they shouldn’t cancel out, they should just make the colors a bit brighter or just different.
The only comparison I can make would be with the bad phone camera I have, since screenshots obviously don’t carry filter information. I’ve uploaded them to imgur here.
The pictures themselves are slightly different brightness, for which I apologize, but you can recognize where the color is brighter in the environment, like the building on the left having its wooden wall and pavement much brighter with the filter on.
You can see on the top, as the filter is turned on, that the text in the tooltip is not touched, but on the bottom, where the filter is off, the text is brighter. It should hopefully be much more noticeable for non-colorblind people.
If some others could test this out I’ll at least know if it’s something on my end.