sad… developers have more empathy for the machine (network, main thread, perf metrics, loading times, etc etc etc)…
than they do for humans.
imagine if all of that brain power was spent on empathizing for users.
- accessibility wouldn't be an after thought
- UI wouldn't be annoying
- and more
but no;
more time is spent giving the machine what it wants and what keeps it happy
@argyleink I agree that it would be great if accessibility wasn’t an afterthought, like articles with autoplaying, looping videos, for example. Hypothetically.
*cough* https://developer.chrome.com/blog/scroll-snap-events
@yatil I wish autoplay was handled by the browser and used your motion preference.. same with gifs.
There's a big split between people wanting autoplay.
But I hear you. Maybe a web extension could help users with this in the interim 🤔
@argyleink It’s literally a basic WCAG failure. There aren’t even controls available. It doesn’t annoy me as my browser supports not autoplaying videos – but I’m far from an average web user.
And your “maybe an extension can do it” seems to show more empathy for the machine than for the needs of humans, as you have outlined in your initial post.
Just don’t have the animations autoplay and have a play/pause buttons for the humans. You can do it!
@yatil There's no controls‽ I'm very surprised. Will investigate.
Agree this is like a 101 consideration, but also unsure if you read the article or just scrolled it and for upset? Throwing the baby out with the bath water, as the post shares plenty of good considerations; there's room to celebrate and improve.
@argyleink No controls.
And you talked about the motivation of making things accessible from the outset, that was what I was commenting on. Not having controls is accessibility as an afterthought. It happens a lot, and even to those with good intentions, and it’s difficult to deduct a motivation from the result.
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