I just found in Discord the Accessibility settings, one of which places the Role Color in a dot beside the name. Terribly useful for those who are using the Light Theme. Game changing!
Discord > Settings > Accessibility > Role Colors
Role Colors in Names
Discord > Settings > Accessibility >...
You make excellent points. We can't solely rely on color to convey information, and with the seemingly wide array of colors that exist in Discord, there may be limited changes we can make to help accommodate colorblindness. Clicking on someone's name will help give their roles, but at the same...
In Discord, I found that the Citizen role color was hard to read on the dark theme. I made a suggesion to alter it, but I wonder if the Discord admins would be interested in doing a review and update of all the role colors in Discord to ensure that they meet a passing score on contrast...