why do you think the German girl wants you to translate her profile?
Just let me select text
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#32this is a client issue.
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#33On Android, long press home button activates Google Assistant that can OCR the current screen and translate immediately. Unironically one of the only two features keeping me on Android until now.
I prefer this easy solution: Print the website (with a printer), take a photo of the printed page, run the photo through OCR software. As simple as that.
I prefer this easy solution: Take a photograph of the website, develop the film, send it off to a transcription service, received the printed copy in the mail, take a digital picture of the document, run it through OCR software. As simple as that.
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#34As a web dev, I fully agree with this, but with a huge exception: clickable text. Anything that is meant to be read as content should absolutely, without fail, be selectable and copyable (assuming appropriate permissions). But stuff like tab headers, buttons, or even text-sparse tiles - things meant for the user to click on - can, and usually should , prevent text selection. It is super annoying to be clicking back a…
Totally not, those ahould be selectable too.
When text becomes selected, instead of allowing the control to work as expected, the focus cannot move between the elements as expected. It breaks the UX for keyboard-only users. I can appreciate that this is not something everyone has to contend with, but for accessibility's sake, the default behavior should at the very least be mitigated. So you're advocating for either hurting the keyboard experience or injecting javascript to over-manage the experience.
To each their own, but I'd rather neither of those things at the expense of not being able to select "Home", "My Account", "Settings", etc. Shit that nobody actually needs to select anyway.
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#35I like to idly select text as I'm reading and when it doesn't work it's super annoying. A pox on sites that do this.
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#36I don't like it when non-clickable text isn't selectable either. But this behavior somehow makes it feel more like an actual app (when used in PWAs).
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Totally not, those ahould be selectable too.
When text becomes selected, instead of allowing the control to work as expected, the focus cannot move between the elements as expected. It breaks the UX for keyboard-only users. I can appreciate that this is not something everyone has to contend with, but for accessibility's sake, the default behavior should at the very least be mitigated. So you're advocating for either hurting the keyboard experience or injecting…
This breaks translation. Text must be selectable.
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#38The thing that kills me, is that I've had this problem with a stylus ever since Fall Creators Update in Windows.
https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Windows10-Community/issues/17
Fortunately, there is a setting for this in Firefox:
>about:config change: dom.w3c_pointer_events.scroll_by_pen.enabled set it to False.
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#39[Trigger warning: Old man yells at cloud.] One of countless reasons I hate doing anything on my phone. Text selection is imprecise, slow and janky. Text input is slow and error prone, and autocorrect (or predictive text) produces danish with wrong grammar (so does Chrome). It's like using a computer with boxing gloves on. And despite phones now being huge, I prefer my triple monitor desktop. And also most apps are pr…
OkCupid sold out to Match, that's why they became crappy.
(OkCupid also had an article saying why you should never pay for online dating, which coincidentally was taken down the same day they were acquired by Match.)
Also, OkCupid gave people different prices based on whether they said they were a man or woman. I wonder if anyone ever sued them in a class action.
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