I just accidentally clicked the “clear all” on the browser URL and wished that it was a bit harder to click but was still there. If it took three clicks to make happen, its still useful in most circumstances but would drastically drop the mistaken clicks

Anyway, what are your unpopular UI opinions?

  • Luke@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16·
    3 days ago

    That’s something I appreciate about the WordPress “block editor”; it tells you when you’ve changed colors in a way that is hard to read for some people. I wish more design software did that automatically.

    • Leon@pawb.socialEnglish
      44·
      3 days ago

      Modern browsers have tools for this built in. Lack of accessibility is a choice.

      • mech@feddit.org
        12·
        3 days ago

        It’s usually an oversight.
        The designers are literally colorblind-blind.

        • Leon@pawb.socialEnglish
          5·
          2 days ago

          Apologies beforehand for the soap-boxing, but this is something I’m rather passionate about.

          So I work as a full-stack developer, with a penchant for UI/UX and front-end, and I have a particular passion for accessibility. The web is a fantastic place for connecting and empowering people, but I believe it can’t be truly open and democratised without everyone having equal access to it.

          The way I see it, it’s your job as a designer to make your design accessible. There’s obviously more to it, someone working purely with design can’t do all the heavy lifting when optimising for screen readers and such, but I view it rather like an architect ignoring accessibility in their buildings, or a chef ignoring allergies. Can you do it? Absolutely. Are there good excuses for it? I don’t think so.

          Personally I only have an auditory processing disorder, and the only accessibility tool I really use is subtitles. The thing is being able-bodied is not necessarily a permanent state, and anyone could go from able to disabled in the blink of an eye. Thus we all benefit from having accessible design in our day to day lives.

          Sadly, there’s not enough focus on accessible design in schools today, thus learning about it becomes more of a personal responsibility. If you work with web, then the browser accessibility tools are literally just two keystrokes away. They’re not that hard to learn to use. Setting up a screen reader and working with that is a bit more work, but I’d encourage everyone who work with this kind of thing to do so because even if our education properly covered these things, nothing beats first-hand experience.