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#a11y #email #usability #att

In #Munich, the surface metro is called "S"-Bahn and the underground is the "U"-Bahn. There's this elevator on my way to work that has these three buttons: "O", "S" and "U". Which one would you pick to get to the "S"-trains when you're coming from the "U"-trains?

Over and over I've seen tourists with suitcases make the wrong choice in this elevator. It bothered me so much that I've printed a label to fix the #UX of this #usability disaster.

It's been there for 2 weeks now ✌️

#SBahn

Photo of 3 elevator buttons with huge letters on them: O, S and U. A white label reading "S-Bahn" has been affixed above the O button. O is the right choice for the surface (S-Bahn) trains. The huge S button takes the unsuspecting visitor to an intermediate floor instead, the actual term for which is only known to the people who build train stations I guess.
#UX #usability #Munich #SBahn

Dear #Microsoft , your #MSWindows #GUI insists on having window borders measuring 1px wide, which we get to grab to resize the windows. With a mouse that seems easy. Try again using a touch pad when cold and shivering, or tired, or in a dusty machine mill with a trembling floor. Don't even get me started on people suffering central tremors, cerebral palsy, or other physical limitations.
#usability #accessibility
#Accessibility #microsoft #usability #gui #mswindows

Recent datepicker experience:
1. Control is presented as three separate spin controls, supporting the Up/Down Arrow keys to increment and decrement the value as well as manual typing. But because they're not text inputs, I can't use the Left/Right Arrow keys to review what each separate one contains, only to move between day, month, and year.
2. I tab to year.
3. I press Down Arrow, and the value is set to 2075. I'm unclear how many use cases require the year to be frequently set to 2075, but I can't imagine it's many so this seems like a fairly ridiculous starting point.
4. I press Up Arrow, and the value gets set to 0001. The number of applications for which 0001 is a valid year is likewise vanishingly small.
5. I delete the 0001, at which point my #screenReader reports that the current value is "0". Also not a valid year.
6. Out of curiosity, I inspect the element to see which third-party component is being used to create this mess... only to find that it's a native `<input>` with `type="date"` and this is just how Google Chrome presents it.

A good reminder that #HTML is not always the most #accessible or user-friendly.

#accessibility #usability

#Accessibility #accessible #screenreader #html #usability

#a11y #webdesign #usability #forms

Solving a 17 years old issue of #Thunderbird by exposing the default sorting and threading options in the settings, and allowing a quick "Apply to all" button (or choose folders separately).
Soon, on a daily release near you...
#UX #usability
Screenshot of the new Appearance settings of Thunderbird
#thunderbird #UX #usability

My PhD student Sára and I are looking for people to participate in a study on usability aspects of interactive theorem provers. Please consider signing up!

Who? anyone who uses or has used an interactive theorem prover for whatever purpose

What? 90 - 120 minute interviews (possibly including a small think-aloud programming session)

When? interviews will be scheduled starting September 2024

Where? online (participants from anywhere are welcome)

We are hoping these interviews will help us determine how you interact with your theorem provers and to gain insights on how we can improve the user experience. We are interested in all aspects of interactive theorem provers, including but not limited to their design, their tooling, their libraries, and their documentation.

Sign up here: tudelft.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe…

#Agda #Coq #Lean #Isabelle #Usability #TheoremProvers

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#usability #agda #coq #isabelle #lean #theoremprovers

#AI #usability #userresearch

Please don't bloat web pages!

"Modern web bloat means some pages load 21MB of data - entry-level phones can't run some simple web pages"

tomshardware.com/tech-industry…

#webperf #webdev #webdevelopment #usability #sustainability


Modern web bloat means some pages load 21MB of data - entry-level phones can't run some simple web pages, and some sites are harder to render than PUBG

Danluu benchmarks numerous websites and discusses their impact on older and/or weaker hardware
Christopher Harper (Tom's Hardware)
#webdev #sustainability #usability #webperf #webdevelopment

#webdev #html #UX #webdesign #usability

#a11y #css #usability #uidesign

#usability

#a11y #Accessibility #usability #uidesign #forms

#usability #uidesign #uxdesign

Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm

ericwbailey.website/published/…

"Performance, accessibility, and usability are more than inconvenient truths you can pretend don’t exist. They have a direct impact on the quality of someone’s life."

#webdev #webperf #ux #usability #a11y #uxd #webdesign


Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm

Performance, accessibility, and usability are more than just inconvenient truths you can pretend don’t exist. They have a direct impact on the quality of someone’s life…
ericwbailey.website
#a11y #webdev #UX #webdesign #usability #webperf #uxd

⌨️ Nielsen Norman Group research on how screen-reader users type on and control mobile devices

“Summary: Users who are blind or have low vision prefer dictation over typing with a keyboard whenever possible. Screen readers on touchscreen devices are restricted to a well-defined set of gestures which makes interaction more challenging than on computers.”

#accessibility #usability #mobile #lowVision #blind

nngroup.com/articles/screen-re…


How Screen-Reader Users Type on and Control Mobile Devices

Screen-reader users prefer dictation over typing with a keyboard. Screen readers on touchscreen devices are restricted to certain gestures which makes interaction more challenging than on computers.
Nielsen Norman Group
#Accessibility #mobile #blind #usability #lowvision

#UX #usability #uidesign #uxdesign #forms

#UX #webdesign #usability #uidesign

#a11y #webdesign #animation #usability #uidesign #uxdesign #motion

#webdesign #usability #uidesign #forms @Large Heydon Collider

#webdesign #usability #links

I find that web developers need to implement inputmode more often (to customize virtual keyboard for phone, email, etc). Hey Safari, why don't you support it?! developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do… #safari #browsers #html #forms #usability

inputmode - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN

The inputmode global attribute is an enumerated attribute that hints at the type of data that might be entered by the user while editing the element or its contents. This allows a browser to display an appropriate virtual keyboard.
developer.mozilla.org
#html #usability #browsers #forms #safari

#usability #uidesign #uxdesign

Update: moved this to my new writing site so there’s a new URL.

Every hashtag on every post on every platform should ALWAYS be pascal case. I wrote this to illustrate how screenreaders read hashtags based on their case.

It’s a small thing that all of us can do to build a more inclusive, accessible internet for all. Please take the time to use pascal case.

Read more:
markwrites.io/hashtag-accessib…

#Accessibility #WebAccessibility #Usability #Readability #Hashtags #SocialNetworking #Blogging #UX

Text-only chart. 1) Lowercase hashtags: #uxdesign #uidesign #webaccessibility / Screen reader results: “ucksdesign, ooeydesign, weebaccessibility” 2) Pascal case hashtags (a.k.a. camel case): #UXDesign #UIDesign #WebAccessibility / Screen reader results: “ux design, ui design, web accessibility”
#Accessibility #hashtags #UX #blogging #usability #webaccessibility #readability #socialnetworking

#Accessibility #usability #calendaring #calendly

With web forms, for birthdate, a text input should be used for the best usability. A dropdown for the year is bad, but this is ridiculous! Sorry, but no one will be born in 2055 for another 32 years. Found multiple instances in the same painful process to sign up my son for a sport. #rant #UX #UXfail #UIDesign #UIFail #usability #forms 😖
An open select dropdown control. Options at top start with the word Year, then go from 2055 down to 2024. The options are cut off from image at that point.
#UX #usability #uidesign #rant #forms #uxfail #uifail

#a11y #webdev #UX #webdesign #usability #uidesign

#webdesign #usability #uidesign #tips #links

#UX #usability #uidesign #forms

#a11y #l10n #i18n #usability #unicode #cldr #kansalliskirjasto @alolita

#usability #uidesign

#usability

#usability #wud

#UX #usability #uxdesign

I have to say, that one little snag aside, that was the easiest/fastest operating system update I’ve ever performed on any operating system ever.

#fedoraSilverblue #usability

#usability #FedoraSilverblue

If anyone has time to help the lovely @codeberg folks with improving accessibility, please take a look at this issue:

codeberg.org/Codeberg/Communit…

#codeberg #foss #inclusivity #accessibility #usability #git #gitea #hosting #community #notForProfit


Codeberg Accessibility

In #389 it was reported that text editors were not accessible yet. Given that such a central piece of the software it not accessible by screen readers (and spell checkers for the matter) yet, it's very likely that there are other UI roadblocks, too.
Codeberg.org
#Accessibility #foss #codeberg #gitea #git #hosting #community #usability #notforprofit #inclusivity

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You can get it for Firefox from:

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#mastodon #remoteFollow #federation #usability #tip #firefox #extension


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#extension #firefox #Mastodon #federation #tip #usability #remotefollow @rugk

#design #usability #errorMessages #settings #bios #virtualisation

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