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Hear hear. It's really hard to empathise with some of the issues until you can experience. I never realised the issues aging eyesight causes - until I aged!
by anexprogrammer 11y ago
Hear hear.
It's really hard to empathise with some of the issues until you can experience. I never realised the issues aging eyesight causes - until I aged! I'm long sighted. I can mostly still see fine, except my life long trick of moving things to arm's length no longer works - my arms aren't long enough any more. Or the distance is now such that the tiny text of the instructions or ingredients is now too small.
Aging sucks :)
I imagine the day-to-day frustrations are very different for someone with short sight, macular degeneration or the multitude of other eyesight disorders.
Android is terrible at being accessible - I can change font sizes, or zoom the website, but crucial elements don't. Plenty of apps "know best". Or there is some limit of zooming the website or its font. Or you zoom and it completely screws up the columns. In ten or fifteen years, perhaps less, Android will be useless to me. I would need a magnifying glass to use a phone! It's not an issue now, but I can clearly see where it will be, in my forseeable future.
There's quite a few colour blindess simulators out there (http://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simulator/ http://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simula... http://www.etre.com/tools/colourblindsimulator/ http://www.etre.com/tools/colourblindsimulator/) but none of them that I ever found let you plug in a URL.
I'm not aware of scientifically sound vision simulators - we need some. Same goes for other senses and disorders.
Given how the web, and technology, work it should be easy to do much better.