I have been using a $100 temporary Android phone while waiting for my fancy phone to get replaced under warranty and the experience with the stock OS is just so so bad. Like barely usable most of the time. Even the GPS and wifi don't work well.
Most people worldwide use cheap Android phones on old versions of the OS and this was a good reminder that just because my mobile app/site works well on my fancy phone, it might work hardly at all for most people.
@darius I think about the NHS digital design standards all the time, where the standard is functionally "your target audience is a fifteen-year-old for whom english is a second language. They're using a 6 year old android phone that's been handed down twice, and they are sitting in a hospital emergency waiting room trying to look up information in the middle of the most terrifying night they have ever had. Your site must work for that person, at that moment."
https://digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-digital/standards-for-web-products#using-valid-html
@darius "If you do use Javascript to improve the user experience for users without accessibility needs, users must be able to perform exactly the same tasks with Javascript turned off."
I wish I could find the reference, where that team talked about testing the NHS site on early PS Vitas and janky old handhelds with some contraption approximating a web browser built in because sometimes that's all people had, and the site had to work for them.
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