hello, for context, I made this post a week or so ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/s/DKNblsUuoy

I am a disabled player who uses a sip puff controller to play the game with my mouth. I cannot type in game so I rely exclusively on pings to communicate to my team mates. Seeing Phreak saying condescendingly “you can just type it out” (view the patch notes video section on pings https://youtu.be/8pxSxtrcB1w?si=CvAwLzWyISG8qIdx @ 1:47:07 timestamp) really left a sour taste in mouth.

This is not only an accessibility nightmare, it is really disheartening and downright rude and ignorant when it comes to disabled players. I’m really sad that the head of the balance team seems to think that everyone who plays is an able bodied person who can type at the speed of light in the middle of a team fight. I’m so sad about these ping changes and the ignorance displayed by the balance team with regard to accessibility and disabled people.

  • PraelatuzBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Funny because I was on the opposite side today.

    My team just reset and was heading towards Baron.

    I pinged our red timer twice, indicating that our adc should take red. I then ping assist on Baron twice, saying we should set up vision near Baron.

    Lastly, I pinged otw to botlane twice, indicating I’m shoving the lane. And then I was hit by the ping mute before I could ping that I have 40 seconds left until my ult is back.

    Tough times.