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Please, UI designers (feddit.uk)

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Hell yeah josef

[-] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago

I really dont know. I dont select text while I read it? I get the frustration but what's the majority? If your in the minority I dont think you should be ignored but also I dont know how they cater to everyone.

I say, the majority adopt something they adopt it because that's how the majority like it. If the majority disagrees make changes to suit their needs. If the resources exist to cater to everyone, cater to everyone. If not, as a member of the minority, its on you to find a work around or move on.

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[+] [email protected] -11 points 1 week ago

Seems more like the writer's problem: everyone else selects text to perform a function. They could point with the mouse or use the bottom of the window as a guide & tap the ↓ key.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

No we don't. Everyone else selects text to select text (with left click), that's how you copy the text, but just as importantly: that's how you select text.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Seems kinda pointless. Maybe we need a dedicated OS for people to just fidget around for no reason: a cat jungle gym for humans.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Selecting text, a core functionality of a computer, is pointless?

Highlighting text isn't pointless, even if you don't personally do it.

Some of us struggle with long lines of text (people with varying degrees of dyslexia)

It literally doesn't inconvenience anyone. And is the standard behaviour on most websites that you can select text. Who here is out there complaining about selectable text? It's usually the opposite (because then you can't copy)

I'm not sure you meant to come across a bit shitty, but if you meant to, I'll invite you to think about exercising empathy for your fellow humans before you speak.

Just because you don't use it, doesn't mean it's pointless.

And saying it is, after having it explained why it's useful to others, is not very pleasant.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Selecting text, a core functionality of a computer, is pointless?

Can you identify any OS GUI in history that offered text selection without operations to perform on the selection? That was always the core function: select the input of an operation.

Some of us struggle with long lines of text (people with varying degrees of dyslexia)

There are solutions for that: accessibility standards. It's been well researched and is basic to good UI design.

All the problems you point out leading you to do something extra just to read indicate problems addressed by fixing broken accessibility. It'd be better to fix those basic UI problems instead of defend doing extra things we shouldn't have to do that they weren't really designed to do.

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