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Just turned on the grayscale, take it for a spin. I'm not surprised the good features are hidden behind Accessibility. I'd argue most other features on a phone
by MadnessASAP 3y ago
Just turned on the grayscale, take it for a spin.
I'm not surprised the good features are hidden behind Accessibility. I'd argue most other features on a phone are designed for someone else's benefit. Albeit cleverly disguised as benefits for the user.
- bobthepanda 3y agoThis is known as the curb cut effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curb_cut_effect#:~:text=The%20curb%20cut%20effect%20is,hearing%20people%20use%20closed%20captioning https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curb_cut_effect#:~:text=The%.... While sloped, level curb cuts at intersections have been implemented primarily for accessibility legislation compliance, it turns out they are useful not only for the disabled but for people with strollers, heavy bags, etc. A similar effect can also be seen with the modern ubiquity of closed captioning.
- roughly 3y agoYeah, this is a standard mantra in Accessibility work - ability is a spectrum, and people move up and down this spectrum both across their lives and even within their days.
- r00fus 3y agoI like the saying "most people are temporarily able-bodied". You will likely need accessibility at some point in your life - and almost surely nearing the end of it. So clearly affordances to assist the disabled are going to benefit everyone ... eventually.
- user_7832 3y agoI vaguely remember a statistic of something like 20 or 30% of the population will be disabled at some time in their life. (Easy examples include old people needing walkers/sticks). MS also had a very interesting design for disability brochure that talked about how even a "regular" person can be temporarily disabled - eg if you're holding a heavy bag of groceries, opening a door that needs 2 hands is very difficult. Designing for amputees will also help the 99% of the population doing grocery runs.
- graypegg 3y agoI have a family member who’s made her career on compliance consulting for the built environment standard for Ontario. She always mentions how much accessibility accommodations are actually improvements to spaces, not just separate “just in case a blind person comes here” utilities. You’re designing for the interface/usage pattern, not so much a specific disability. A curb cut is a usage pattern for anything with wheels. A greyscale mode is a usage pattern for anyone that wants/needs information conveyed without relying on colour distinctions. Tons of those adaptions are just plain useful in cases outside disability.
- isaidthis 3y agoI wonder what the opposite of the curb cut effect is? For example, tactile paving is an accessibility feature that benefits one group but can hinder many others with accessibility needs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactile_paving https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactile_paving Anecdotally, I've observed that elderly people with grocery carts and people in wheel chairs have difficulty at cross walks navigating these features. The wiki mentions these points: "...more thought should have been put into balancing the needs of vision-impaired pedestrians and mobility-impaired pedestrians, such as wheelchair and cane users, who can trip on the bumps."
- touisteur 3y agoThere's also a host of UI automation lying behind accessibility features. Shame it's the first thing that breaks at every cycle of rewrite.
- fomine3 3y agoApple is so bad about categorize settings for unknown reason. They pack many things under Accessibility.
- wlonkly 3y agoThose things make the device more accessible. You don't have to be profoundly disabled to find accessibility features useful.
- fomine3 3y agoTrue but it's also vice versa. Some settings located outside of Accessibility are helpful for disabled people. Perhaps they should utilize shortcut links