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Well the ones I've worked with couldn't care less. Of course they love to show off how good they are to the poor disabled people, but that doesn't mean anythin
by guappa 2y ago
Well the ones I've worked with couldn't care less.
Of course they love to show off how good they are to the poor disabled people, but that doesn't mean anything until some government reminds us that we are in breach of contract unless we make our GUI accessible.
- micromacrofoot 2y agothis seems like a very mean spirited take on accessibility?
- askew 2y agoI took from it that [the designers] are all mouth and no trousers – which is fairly common. But "the poor disabled people" seems patronising.
- BrandonMarc 2y agoI believe that was the commenter's point - that the designers described patronizingly virtue signal about their accessibility priorities, while their other decisions are troublesome.
- inopinatus 2y agoIt is a patronising sentiment, but adjacent tonal cues suggest GGGP is offering it ironically, thus in ridicule of performative compliance. On flipside, note that many regulations - in any human domain - are oriented to raise the level of the worst performing, not to support the efforts of the best or to optimise the middle.
- guappa 2y agoYes very patronising, a terrible attitude really. Which is why I criticise it. Also I'm disabled myself, although not in a way that requires any adaptation to use a computer. But I of course notice these things a bit more than average; and I get to hear my elderly father's complaints about software that he can't use because of inaccessible design. Of course a designer should be qualified and notice these things even more… but all they do is move buttons around and disable copy paste so that even fully abled people have a hard time using our software between versions.
- bluGill 2y agoDesigners that come from a background of human machine interaction care and will say that. Designers who come from a background of art don't understand what is being talked about and so don't say anything - they tend to only ensure it works on their one devices which they have selected to be the best and ignore everything else. The second group does make things that look nicer, but the first ensures it can be used. You really want both, but then you need to be careful about who wins when they disagree.