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Non technical people struggle with these alot. My mum regularly asks for help when all she's done is ignore the captcha thinking it's an advert because it stan
by 12907835202 3y ago
Non technical people struggle with these alot.
My mum regularly asks for help when all she's done is ignore the captcha thinking it's an advert because it stands out like a Google ad (different UI, different font, extra branding etc).
At least she's learnt to automatically ignore ads, but it comes with consequence of ignoring captchas as well...
- bombcar 3y agoThe Internet as a whole has become very elderly unfriendly. Even the iPhone becomes an unnavigable mess once you’re trying to help someone 70+ work with it. And continually changing UIs definitely don’t help.
- dagmx 3y agoThe good news is that they’re adding a new accessibility mode https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-previews-live-speech-personal-voice-and-more-new-accessibility-features/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-previews-live-s... In the HN thread , a lot of people were calling it the grandparent mode.
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- bombcar 3y agoI'm getting older myself and every day this comic becomes more and more pertinent: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/12/one-day-in-the-future https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/12/one-day-in-the...