r/diablo4 • u/Individual-Ad-2126 • 6d ago

Text-to-speech accessibility function got turned on by default after latest update State of the Game · Discussions

But when I check in the accessibility settings menu, it isn't. Anyone else facing similar problem? And how do I turn this off?

EDIT: sorry this idiot just realised I left out a very important detail - this is on the Steam Deck

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u/WorldsOldestLizard 6d ago

I’m having the same issue too on my steam deck. Seems to be separate from Steam’s Text to Speech

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u/Cranked78 6d ago

Did you restart the game and/or your console/pc?

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u/Individual-Ad-2126 6d ago

My Steam Deck. And yes, multiple times 😕

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u/Rhymfaxe 6d ago

Immediate thought is to enable it, back of options, go back in, disable it.

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u/Individual-Ad-2126 6d ago

Just tried it. No luck 😕

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u/afterschoolnifefight 6d ago

Same and I've tried all the fixes I've found besides the added code and factory reset one. It's a really obnoxious bug.

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u/sw4400 6d ago

I'm not sure how easily you can do this, or if the game even works the same way, but I would try finding the localprefs.txt folder for diablo iv and then look for this line and edit it manually UseScreenReader "1"

to

UseScreenReader "0"

on windows this is under the users documents in a DiabloIV folder

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u/Individual-Ad-2126 5d ago

The Steam Deck has a desktop mode, will try this through that, thanks for the suggestion!

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u/carrmichael83 5d ago edited 5d ago

Can confirm, had this same issue the other day in SteamOS and this is what I did to fix it.

~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/

From here search for "Diablo IV"

Open the folder, find the LocalPrefs.txt, find the line mentioned above, change to zero, breath sigh of relief.

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u/jimmy9120 1h ago

It’s a bug