#badux — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #badux, aggregated by home.social.
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Somehow the order of my „recently closed tabs“ list in Safari (on iOS at least) is upside down. Means, the oldest are on top and I‘d have to scroll two kilometers to reach the one I just accidentally closed. Who at Apple thinks this is a good idea? Was it always like this or is this a recent change?
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Okta, for an authentication system, has so many rough edges and bad user experiences.
In the portal, and click the Sign Out button? Yeah, doesn't do anything.
Already logged in, but touching something that requires 2FA? Tell the user that, and give them options on what 2FA to trigger.
My org doesn't allow Windows Hello, so if I login with that, having Okta Verify pop up, with a big "Windows Hello confirmation <disabled>" doesn't help me, I can't use that to 2FA.
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#Windows11's new #StickyNotes app (a thinly disguised #OneNote) is fucking annoying. Since it is so-called "smart", and it attempts to provide context around the "source" of your note, its window is constantly updating with "current source" ALL THE TIME. Its visually distracting AF.
And it can't be disabled. Do better #Microsoft.
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#Amazon has a handy button to change your language. And helpfully they've localized the names of each language so you can only tell what they are if you can read that language. Hablo Inglés y solo pequeño Español ... And I'm not fluent by any means.
The native spelling for that language should be the primary one displayed #badUI #badUX
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‘It saddens me that “looking cool” seems to have become preferable to “useful and usable” in the minds of application and operating system developers.’
https://www.infoworld.com/article/2337080/the-decline-of-the-user-interface.html
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Wellp, its a good thing I'm resourceful, persistent, and know a few things about code. I should not have had to go this far, and I should not have to do what I have to do in order to use my $1,400 network switch. Explnation follows.
But this is what ablism, lack of accessibility, lack of inclusive design, and lack of critical and forward thinking and planning by Netgear UX/UI designers, along with everyone else who does/makes these kinds of things/decisions causes for those who do not fall into their narrow mindset, views, and ideas of what is functional and useful design.
So it turns out that practically the entire web UI is Java script. Surprised, anyone?
On the VLAN membership page, there are ports and link aggregation group designations in a table, but of course not formatted at all like a proper table. Not yet surprised?
That's all well and good. But here's where it gets completely ablist, inaccessible and inconsiderate. The settings that control the port/LAG state is entirely images, and java-based clickable controls that don't actually respond to screen reader clickable identification/listing mechanisms. So if a port/LAG is part, not part, tagged, or untagged in a VLAN is only communicated as a visual signal in an image. And as we've seen in my previous post, even AI can't figure it out accurately more than half the time. Making adjustments to these controls is purely a guessing game.However, here's where my persistence, resourcefulness, and understanding of code comes in.
After slamming things around for a few hours, including my keyboard, I got the bright idea to start looking through the dev tools as well as page source.
It was then that I got frustrated once again, until I figured out that the VLAN membership stuff was in a separate iframe. So I had to look at its separate source specifically.
Once I found the code I needed, I then discovered that I could figure out what state each port/LAG was in by interpreting the html/java image code/tags and image names for each port. Two examples follow.
The first port is 10, and is removed from the VLAN. The second port is 11, and it is untagged in the VLAN.
<div class='portMember margin'><span class='portword'>10</span><div class='panels'><div class='portImage remImg'></div></div></div>
<div class='portMember margin'><span class='portword'>11</span><div class='panels'><div class='portImage untImg'></div></div></div>
So in the two above examples, we can see that the portword class is 10 and 11 respectively. This tells us what port we're dealing with.
Then later in the code, we can see that the portImage is either remImg or untImg. I've deduced that rem means remove, and unt means untagged.
So this is how I have to do VLANs in my $1,400 switch.
#Inaccessibility #Nonusability #Noninclusive #BadUX #BadUI #Ablism #RealEffects -
I don't for a moment believe retailers' claims about theft — they're too similar to the "oh noes, shoplifting is so bad we have to close stores!" lies that recently unraveled. But I absolutely welcome any move to get rid of self-checkout. Those machines are a #UX nightmare. (Also I'm one of the 21% who feels like I'm performing free labor. Maybe because my first job was as a bagger/cashier in a supermarket.)
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And it gets worse....
You can't paste a password.... Seriously? -
Monoprix veut garder du piment dans notre relation. 🌶️ C'est pour ça que tous les quelques mois, les URLs auxquelles trouver les informations sur ses magasins changent sans qu'il y ait de redirection depuis les anciennes adresses.
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CW: Rant about Windows Mail
Windows Mail is an abomination. It's just taken me half an hour to add two accounts!
Firstly, it automatically tacked port 1 onto the server name when adding the account. I already had a port specified, so I ended up with something like "mail.myserver.com:993:1". As you might expect, this didn't work. Weirdly, it doesn't do this when you go back in and edit the server name.
