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[?]Anthony » 🌐
@abucci@buc.ci

One of the goals of accessibility ought to be to minimize cognitive load as much as possible, with a special emphasis on avoiding surprises that cause spikes in cognitive load.

As a low-vision user I already have to lean heavily on my short-term memory to successfully navigate the web. I also constantly use screen magnifiers.

When I select some text on a web page and hit "copy", then go to some other document and hit "paste", and what comes out is different from what I selected, my cognitive load suddenly spikes. The problem is compounded by the fact that I'm very likely zoomed so far into the desktop that I don't even see the text I thought I'd selected. Naturally I begin wondering whether I made a mistake, whether I selected more text than I intended, whether I didn't hit Ctrl-C enthusiastically enough for it to register, etc etc etc. What ought to be a simple and routine command turns into a mystery to solve. To me this feels like a hallmark of poor design.

(Please note that I will probably block you if you respond with advice or fatalism; see above regarding causing spikes in cognitive load).


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    [?]Anthony » 🌐
    @abucci@buc.ci

    Mucking around with the contents of the clipboard, however well-intentioned, is an accessibility issue and should be avoided. Tons of ecommerce sites do this anyway.


      [?]ask DNA » 🌐
      @askDNA@urusai.social

      Poring over my immense archives to find a photo to use as a meta image for my website. I take a lot of pictures and save everything. There's a lot to go through to find ONE to represent the ol blog.

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        [?]Anthony » 🌐
        @abucci@buc.ci

        Every time there's something in the news about Google search, Kagi zealots come out of the woodwork to troll you into submission if you dare say anything about Kagi that doesn't resonate with their view. It's weird and people should stop being weird about technology like this.

        Kagi started as an AI company that wanted to slurp up the internet to provide a question "answering" service not unlike what Google is proposing to replace web search with. Perhaps they've toned this rhetoric down a bit on their blog recently but there's no evidence I'm aware of that the business has changed mission. All of this is still available on Kagi's own blog---including the fact that they used to be kagi.ai---yet somehow it's controversial to point it out. If you're looking for a web search engine that isn't likely to turn into a slop extruder, Kagi is probably not going to be the one. Try @Mojeek@mastodon.social or Marginalia. This list might be helpful too.


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          [?]Lobsters » 🤖 🌐
          @lobsters@mastodon.social

          What Is a Dickover? lobste.rs/s/xsurh7
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