Lyric Font and Background Color Accessibility Settings

[lucids]

Hello!

As a longtime Windows Desktop Spotify App lover, I think it'd be great if there could be some accessibility settings for the lyrics screen on the desktop app!

I'm disabled and have several conditions causing visual impairments but I love learning songs so I can sing them by heart, especially in other languages, as it's a great way to take my mind off some of my more severe illnesses. So more often than not I have my lyrics screen open on my other screen to learn all I can.

But this recent update changed the font/background color and has really made it a lot harder to use the lyrics screen as much as I did previously.

Visually, I can see clearly. But certain font colors on certain backgrounds can extreme strain to my eyes and basically makes the lyrics screen unusable for me after this recent update (12/13 as I write this), as it causes long lasting strain and pain to my eyes, even though it technically is just a small aesthetic change to others.

Previously, the font would stay black until getting to the lyric being sung, which made it more accessible for me to read for long periods as it was less strenuous. Sometimes the background color made it a little more difficult, but I'd manage.

But now that they've become a lighter shade of whatever the background is, which usually is something much darker than it was before, it's in such a specific way that the contrast is too much for my vision on almost every song and I really can't look at it for more than maybe 10 seconds at a time, when I used to stare for the full length of a song or even repeat it multiple times. Or sometimes the unread and read lyric colors are too similar that I can't tell them apart due to previous strain

(see 3rd pic attached below)

Example of the differences with this update

Before update, vs after update (same song)

The backgrounds have become darker to match the new colored unread text, which is pretty, but in turn that causes the struggle of color contrast that some eyes cant comfortably handle.

(see images attached for more (but not all) examples of the contrast I struggle with)

The main struggle with my vision is, for example;

White Text on a Black/Dark Blue Background or 

Black Text on a White Background is very harsh to look at.

V.S.

White Text on a Gray Background, or Light Brown Text on a Peach Background is much more tolerable and easier to take in.

If there was a way to have settings the user could either toggle or freely adjust, such as; Unread Text Color, Read Lyric Text Color, Lyrics Match Background Color, or even just the option to set permanent colors for text/backgrounds regardless of the song, I really think it would help a lot more people than just me!

~

Over half a billion people worldwide have visual impairments

(not including those fully blind!) and I'm sure all of them would love to enjoy music just like everyone else! 😊

[MAJDEK]

Soy daltonico y en la ultima actualizacion, deje de poder distinguir donde se encuentra actualmente la cancion. Esto me molesta mucho porque tengo que estar haciendo un esfuerzo gigante para poder entender en que parte la cancion esta. Ya se genero un ticket para esto pero me acaban de avisar que sigue sin avanzar despues de 2 meses.

[MikeGreninja]

why isn't Spotify fixing this? it's been months

[Kelly147]

 why did Spotify change from this

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To this weird display.

I’m no longer enjoying using Spotify 🤧💔

[walvarezv]

It would be great if in the web player you could adjust the background color as well as the font size and color, with the possibility to save the themes, to be able to project it using videobean, as well as to be able to use it for karaoke.

Currently when projecting the letters of the songs it looks very small and many of the random colors do not allow a good contrast.

[Rattlingspy]

I want the lyrics to be shown in the original texts, not in english font with Bengali pronunciation, if the song is Bengali then the lyrics also should mandatorily be present in that font, like in the older version of Spotify.

[Cha20s]

Even now, they seem to have slightly improved visibility of the lyrics; but it's still so bad on desktop compared to mobile, I can never read it. If you're hovering over the screen anywhere near a line, it also does this, using much the same display as it does for the current lyric. Accessibility settings allowing us to control how the app looks, setting default background colours/contrast levels, would make it way easier to use for all users.

[rologica]

Hallo! Ik onderschrijf volledig dit verzoek om toegankelijkheidsopties. Als iemand die moeite heeft met zwart-op-zwart tekst, zou ik graag een lichte modus (witte modus) willen zien voor de gehele Spotify app. De huidige donkere interface maakt het voor mij erg moeilijk leesbaar. Naast de lyrics-instellingen die hier worden voorgesteld, zou een algemene lichte modus met wit/lichte achtergronden en donkere tekst een enorm verschil maken voor de toegankelijkheid. Dit zou helpen bij alle tekst in de app, niet alleen de lyrics. Bedankt voor het overwegen van deze toegankelijkheidsverbeteringen!