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If you design a webpage that looks like an app loading screen, and have to put the word "SCROLL" at the bottom, I think that's a design failure, for the same/similar reasons that "click here" links are.
I'm not sure if it's the same deal if I were to put the bookmark in a folder (so it's not in view all the time) but just something to note.
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> Lack of contrast hinders everyone with any kind of vision issues (old/colorblind etc.) False. Someone with some kind, but not everyone with any kind. This broad stroke that you've just painted is counter to the goals of accessibility. > “Too much” contrast means young hipsters complain it burns their eyes. Let's not trivialize disabilities we don't even know exist. But if you wanted to research this, you can look u…
> Let's not trivialize disabilities we don't even know exist. Ok, fair. But I don’t think it’s an accident that all the people I hear complain about contrast being too high are 20-something engineers. There’s nothing about good contrast that says it needs to blaze your eyes off. You can have perfectly good contrast with a completely black background and minimal amounts of light. Like I said, there’s no reason that “c…
Therein lies the problem: this assumption is incorrect. I encourage you to read what I quoted from that article again. Accessibility can not have a one-size-fits-all approach. Your suggested "medium contrast" to accommodate the different spectrums of visual impairment inevitably detriments both sides.
All you're arguing for here is exactly what you're purporting to argue against, which is to assume one party's request for accomodations is less legitimate than another's. It's a superficial form of advocacy, that, while I understand comes from a place of good intentions, does not actually accommodate disabilities in the true spirit of accessibility.
I can assure you that the low-contrast accomodation in the linked article would make it difficult for the person who needs a high-contrast accomodation, and vice versa.
The comment that started this conversation is correct: all approaches to accessibility must have levers to pull to accommodate everyone. That includes allowing for accomodations in whatever form is reasonable. Extensions that change the way a website is displayed are one such accomodation. By being so rigid, this company has not implemented accessibility, they have implemented changes that shift disadvantage to another party. It's not defensible.
Love the web(b) page! I guess you also use your color palette there? P.S. Subscribed to the RSS feed, but I noticed it's not auto detectable from main URL.
I fixed my feeds, all three of them had issues SMH! That's what I get for importing modules.
Is there any reason to use the word uchu? It seems like almost everything (colour schemes, AI models, startups, tools, apps, ...) is named using a single randomly-selected Japanese word these days. But... why?
Is there any reason to use the word uchu? It seems like almost everything (colour schemes, AI models, startups, tools, apps, ...) is named using a single randomly-selected Japanese word these days. But... why?
Does it bother you to have a product name like Galaxy or Forester? It seems very odd to me that somebody would complain about single-word product names. Or are you complaining about the origin language? Or are you just jealous that somebody is using a two-syllable word instead of something like Navigator? Or perhaps you are peeved it isn't a single-syllable name like Chrome. Is a word like Ubuntu ok if it isn't Japan…
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The Chinese (on e.g. AliExpress) do this, too. With... mixed results. Small typo's, for example. Intentional (NOKlA) or not. Or, case in point: "NICGIGA is a technology enterprise focusing on communication network products. We have a perfect R&D team and Reliability laboratory."
> Intentional (NOKlA) I'm not sure what your point is exactly, but fwiw, Nokia is the name of the Finnish town from which the Nokia company originates. They used to make rubber products such as rubber boots. I once had a bike with Nokia branded inner tyres (same logo, just without the "Connecting People" payoff). There's absolutely nothing Japanese about the word "Nokia", except maybe in the eye (ear?) of the beholde…
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I fixed my feeds, all three of them had issues SMH! That's what I get for importing modules.
I tried it a couple of times on your homepage and in your blog, but I still can't auto-detect it. I don't see a in the source, to be honest. Maybe I'm doing something wrong here. Your feed works flawlessly though, long live the interwebz!
They're just links in the footer.
Okay, NOW it's fixed haha! Good grief.
Just a heads up that this site has an animated SVG favicon. I had added it to my Firefox bookmarks bar and the favicon kept animating its color changes. Looked pretty neat, but then realised after a day or so that Firefox was chewing up 50-60% CPU on my MacBook Air. Turns out it was down to this bookmark, after I removed it, the CPU levels were much much lower. I'm not sure if it's the same deal if I were to put the…
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Your second example is a bit disingenuous since the word ‘pyjamas’ is a perfectly normal English word, regardless of its etymology. As for the first: there isn’t a silly trend of naming everything after randomly-chosen German words, so at least it’s fairly original.
I picked the second example exactly to elicit a response such as yours. It's ultimately a word from a foreign language. At some point it got used by English-speakers and then it spread and got used more and more. Lots of foreign words get used. Some catch on and some don't. That's just how language evolves. Pajamas is just an example of a foreign word in a late stage of this evolution