Robert KingettJust had a sighted person tell me they often use features, clients and programs that were made for us, they don’t use screen readers, but they use accessibility features, even when they do not have disabilities, but also clients like a blind Mastodon client, or a text editor designed with screen readers in mind such as the ones I list on my Tools page at the end, as an example, because they said, the interface is 1000 times cleaner, there’s a lot of keyboard shortcuts, clutter free interface, even though the UI is basic, speed, less bloat, and a whole host of other things including, but not limited to, and never having to put up with distracting animation nonsense. You know software development has vastly sank in quality when sighted folk are using blind clients. To see the tools and stuff I use, go to https://sightlessscribbles.com/tools/ #Programming #Software
BlueLegend@WeirdWriter I can see this. Far too many developers forget how detrimental things like animations can be. And these days they'll make a, oh lets say web browser that requires your device to have good specs and all because of some fancy scale-altering feature that you might not be able to disable even, or some fancy drawer opening animation thing. All that requires good resources to function and if you don't have them, said thing lags or breaks in other fascenating ways.
Raven667@flamulous a frustrating thing about that is those kinds of animations are only slow because they are built badly with overcomplicated javascript frameworks rather than using the native css animations built into browser engines. Granted there was a time when the native features didnt exist and js was the only way but a lot of frontend havent updated their thinking and tooling