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I work in a company with a "no-print" policy, so that doesn't matter to me. I guess there is a question of how it works for, say, blind people but most of our d
by blowski 5y ago
I work in a company with a "no-print" policy, so that doesn't matter to me. I guess there is a question of how it works for, say, blind people but most of our diagrams already have that problem. If this makes the diagram easier to understand for a wider audience, then perhaps this actually helps accessibility.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoTechnical papers are fairly often printed. It's not a leisure read that you skim through once for the entertainment. You typically need to make margin notes and cross reference other papers a fair bit to actually get any value out of them.
- blowski 5y agosome technical papers, not all.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoI would say most technical literature. Sure there are rare unicorns like Richard Feynman who manage to be geniuses in both communication and science, but even in those cases you need to read carefully and repeatedly to make the most of the text. If anything, it's a danger that you stop paying attention because it's so superficially readable.
- cinntaile 5y agoWhat a weird policy? Why do they do this? Nothing beats paper for understanding something difficult for me, at that point technology is a distraction.
- blowski 5y agoA lot of the documents contain highly sensitive data. There have been too many incidents of printed docs left on trains, thrown out in the rubbish, etc. That being said, you're not going to be use a third-party system like this to draw such diagrams. But there is definitely a use case for animated diagrams in such documents.
- cinntaile 5y agoOk that makes sense.