I think fundamentally, the incentives for the industry are pretty majorly broken. The incentives to monetize everything at all costs, the ignoring of the effect on human attention.
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I think fundamentally, the incentives for the industry are pretty majorly broken. The incentives to monetize everything at all costs, the ignoring of the effect on human attention.
Continue Reading Industry incentives for accessibility are broken
… decision paralysis. Keep your design, layout and content simple and easy to navigate.
I can’t use social media anymore since the rise of infinite scroll and the algorithmic feed, because it’s designed to hook and keep your attention. And I can’t get out.
[I have] Three main ones [disabilities], ADHD, bipolar type two and chronic pain. The ADHD is definitely the one that gets me in the most trouble on the web, it’s gotten more and more inaccessible over my lifetime.
Please don’t design things in parallax. I mean, I have ADHD, but I have also a slight impairment that makes me want to vomit when things move too fast on the web.
Most people don’t even consider that people like me could have an issue with their website. They don’t even think about it.
I have ADHD. And I see this as sometimes a really frustrating impairment, and sometimes a really nice thing to have.
Give me the freedom for my options of increasing text to zooming into the screen. Stop putting things in one spot where they don’t move that gets in the way of what I do. The least you could do is let me unpin without some kind of bookmarklet. Unpin the header or the footer or whatever other widgets that you have to have on there. So I can get it out of the way. Let me read in my large print on my own screen.