For blind internet users, the fix can be worse than the flaws

Post by daniel-cussen » Thu, Jul 28, 2022, 9:49 PM UTC

et-al wrote: post #13

daniel-cussen wrote: post #5

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As a descendant of a totally blind man, but with like 20/12 vision myself, I just have to agree. Dude eyes are the ultimate threat detector, they're essential, and there's so many people trying to take advantage of vision impairment. They need it to be perfect stereotypical blindness to give a single unit of fuck about the problem, no compensating for limitations, all or nothing. Never look from another point of view…

Capsule amounts differ everywhere, so it's easier if you can share the actual milligrams. Also, there's this 2018 NIH study that says fish oil is no better than a placebo for dry eyes: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/omega-3s-fish-...

I've seen capsule sizes 1200 mg, 1600 mg, I think 1800 mg. Some were small. Ignore the difference, take a lot, take the big softgels like they were small softgels. Don't take it, eat it.

Post by geraldwhen » Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 5:46 PM UTC

scoot wrote: post #47

geraldwhen wrote: post #44

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That’s great until design decides that modals shouldn’t close with the escape key and users should be forced to scroll a text field and click a toggle to navigate away. Then some data elsewhere on the page animates to a new value, and the user should be notified of this data immediately. Designers don’t like using prebuilt components. I haven’t found one yet that can live with constraints.

It sounds like design needs to be educated on accessibility. That said, all this and more is possible with Material UI. It's designed for flexibility and customizability in both functionality and appearance. That doesn't make it okay to break accessibility though.

Until you need to theme some tabs because design must align the text and icons -just so- and quickly find that not everything in material is themable. Some things are missing.

So you style deep dom elements that break when you upgrade material, if you ever do, because upgrading is now too expensive with the Frankenstein you’ve tried to jam into material’s default styles.

I’ve worked with many, many designers. None of them have ever liked working with constraints. Even getting a single designer to commit to a color palette is pulling teeth.

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