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Anecdote: I had a friend in college. Visually impaired - tunnel vision and a degrading retina. Takes him a good few seconds to locate things on familiar UI. New
by phanimahesh 10y ago
Anecdote: I had a friend in college. Visually impaired - tunnel vision and a degrading retina. Takes him a good few seconds to locate things on familiar UI. New UI is hell. I know because I was by his side all through college.
Your comment makes it look as if you never worked with someone who suffers due to needless design changes.
- discreditable 10y agoI work in high school education. I've dealt with inflexibility from staff and students alike. When I started we never ran software updates precisely because people didn't like change. I changed that policy and moved to tracking upstream as closely as I can manage. While it was very hard at first, users have adapted and become better at adapting to new changes quickly. Five years later, I do not see nearly as many "this changed and I don't know how to do it anymore"-type questions as I used to. The initial break was quite hard, but I'm very glad I did it.
- vacri 10y agoThere's a difference between people being just plain stubborn, and people with an actual disability that hampers them.
- apostacy 10y agoIndeed. I have worked in assistive technology consulting, and it is very difficult to keep up with all of the "upgrades". It is clear that we value shiny bullshit more than being accessable and inclusive. And nobody can even make the case that cutting off more and more people from the web even benefits us.