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Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #unusable, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Not to pick on toot.wales, because where this link leads is just one example, but it is definitely …

    … an example of why some people say Mastodon is difficult to use.

    Being unusable is about more than not knowing what to click. It starts with incomprehensible text and taxonomy that present hurdles in searching for elements (buttons, links) in the interface and to correctly guessing the effect of using those elements.

    toot.wales/@teamtoot/114909739

    #usability #UX #Mastodon #fediverse #fail #unusable

  2. Please don't replace #GUI widgets with images. This is supposed to be a sliding on and off switch. An image replaces the check box. But if that image doesn't load, the result becomes #unusable

    #usability #accessibility #webapp #software #failurenotes

  3. We use cookies, here are your options:

    Reject all cookies so your use of this website is severely limited. OR, accept all cookies so we can sell every bit of personal information we can gain from your browser cookie store and any other sites you may visit for the rest of your life (we don’t expire cookies and the average user never removes them).

    You can customize these settings or read our privacy policy where we tell you that we are going to sell your data.

    Those are your options, sucker, enjoy our broken website! Just so you are aware regardless of your choice, we are still going to sell your data.

    Have a great time… bitch.

    #webbrowsing #cookies #unusable #web

  4. Has anyone else noticed that the #Apple #SpokenContent #ScreenReader has become #unusable?

    Since #iOS 15, #Siri has lost the ability to #synchronize the spoken content of a webpage with what the screen reader highlights, which is supposed to be the entire point of the #accessibility feature

    Now the reader is grayed out

    Maybe it’s my (much larger than average) font size, or because I use the #DarkNight #app, but now I have to highlight the specific text I want to be read & command it to read

  5. Has anyone else noticed that the #Apple #SpokenContent #ScreenReader has become #unusable?

    Since #iOS 15, #Siri has lost the ability to #synchronize the spoken content of a webpage with what the screen reader highlights, which is supposed to be the entire point of the #accessibility feature

    Now the reader is grayed out

    Maybe it’s my (much larger than average) font size, or because I use the #DarkNight #app, but now I have to highlight the specific text I want to be read & command it to read

  6. Has anyone else noticed that the has become ?

    Since 15, has lost the ability to the spoken content of a webpage with what the screen reader highlights, which is supposed to be the entire point of the feature

    Now the reader is grayed out

    Maybe it’s my (much larger than average) font size, or because I use the , but now I have to highlight the specific text I want to be read & command it to read

  7. Has anyone else noticed that the #Apple #SpokenContent #ScreenReader has become #unusable?

    Since #iOS 15, #Siri has lost the ability to #synchronize the spoken content of a webpage with what the screen reader highlights, which is supposed to be the entire point of the #accessibility feature

    Now the reader is grayed out

    Maybe it’s my (much larger than average) font size, or because I use the #DarkNight #app, but now I have to highlight the specific text I want to be read & command it to read

  8. @elliot @lauren

    #Discord is a whole 'nother kettle of fish; the accumulated #knowledge of many, many #communities is getting #locked into this walled garden, where it is essentially #unsearchable and #unusable by anyone without an account.

    I haven't even been able to look at anything there, because of their brutally stupid "We detected something abnormal so we need your email address before you can view the site!" I get.

    "#Privacy? We've heard of it."

    #WalledGarden

  9. #Newsie.social has been down for the past 72 hours with only occasional, intermittent #connectivity. It is #unusable at this point. I'm not sure if this toot will even be posted, but it looks like I'm going to have to abandon Newsie for a new host if I want to continue using #Mastodon. It sucks, too, because I've been a monthly contributor with the hopes that they would properly maintain the service and uptime, but that sadly doesn't seem to be the case. I'll be back when I find a new host. 😘

  10. @pluralistic @defcon @eff

    EFF peeps giving out privacy advice can't even bring themselves to diss Chrome or recommend Firefox. FF will automatically store cookies+cache in separate silos... making the issue of rejecting cookies moot.

    But #EFF expert in The Atlantic says don't reject all cookies.... be moderate by picking and choosing the cookies you block. #unusable #advice #falsechoice #derp

    My advice to you would be to talk with the few smart ppl at EFF and form a better advocacy group.

  11. When did we stop making it easy to see which window is in focus? The active window's title bar is a slightly different shade of medium grey to that of inactive windows. 🖥️🧐🤨

    #gnome #kde #xfce #desktopenviroments #windowmanagers #linux #windows #macos #ux #uxdesign #ui #uidesign #usability #unusable

  12. Making #QlikView dashboards adhere to #MSWindows system colors (chosen by the user) is not always straightforward.

    The #ListBox object for instance, by default, does not let us set a text foreground color. We can set the background to syscolor(5)… which can result in a completely #unusable #UserInterface.

    To fix this, we must override presentation settings. Set the selection style to 'LED Check box', then exit the settings. Then reopen settings and set syscolor (8) as the Font Color.

  13. Don't you hate it when you spin up a new #EC2 instance in #AWS and the first thing your #MSWindows2019 server does is look for updates? The whole instance is #unusable for the first few hours due to #TIWorker looking to update a brand new system.