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Very awesome story. But doesn't this prove the GP's point then? Not all old people are incapable of figuring things out --by your anecdote-- and the GP's point
by logicprog 7y ago
Very awesome story. But doesn't this prove the GP's point then? Not all old people are incapable of figuring things out --by your anecdote-- and the GP's point is that the ones that are, have just lost their patience and perseverance for that stuff, not that they actually are incapable of finding a menu item because they're old now. And things requiring a bit of patience isn't discrimination, it's just that some things require patience. There are young people that act like this too, where they refuse to even look through menus for a bit or try different buttons, and we don't say computers are discriminatory against young people?
Granted we should most definitely still have accessibility features. Not having captions or bigger font options is pretty discriminatory.
- ghaff 7y agoWell, there are things that require patience and perseverance because they're complex. And they're things that require patience and perseverance because they're designed poorly. It seems to me perfectly rational to come to the realization with age that life really is too short to put up with poorly-designed devices and services. There are perhaps not enough devices and services that are well-designed but they're out there.