Accessibility Options

World of Warcraft: The War Within will add a variety of features to the game, but they left a key concern out during the BlizzCon 2023 announcement: what about all those creepy spiders?

One of the features in the World of Warcraft 10.2 patch is the Pathfinder achievement, which allows us to use old-world flying in the Dragon Isles, including the new Emerald Dream zone.

The latest alpha build for World of Warcraft's forthcoming expansion Dragonflight included a new feature coded as "Soft Targeting." An alternative to the standard tab target or click-to-interact that WoW players have been using for years, the soft target feature will automatically target an NPC or enemy within medium range that your camera is centered on -- you don't have to get right in their face, thankfully, but casters and hunters will find it hard to start combat from maximum range with this feature.

I haven't exactly made it a secret that I'm playing WoW with declining vision, which causes photosensitive headaches and motion sickness.

World of Warcraft has added quite a few accessibility options over the years, from improved color blind modes to click and mouseover casting -- but that doesn't mean I can't think of a few additional changes that would be very helpful.

Video games and accessibility have been at the front of my mind for the past few years.