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Sheri Byrne-Haber’s post “Accessibility and Usability: Inline Field Validation vs. Constantly Active Submit Button”:
https://buttondown.com/access-ability/archive/accessibility-and-usability-inline-field/
Added to my post “Don't Dis…

Accessibility and Usability: Inline Field Validation vs. Constantly Active Submit Button
AI-generated image of a hand against a dark background, holding a circle containing a light blue checkmark against a dark background. User researchers have...

…OK, that plus human training on basic usage opsec, but that’s mostly not a stuff app vendors can fix. Although usability defaults would help with some of it.

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I'm saying it is demonstrably a false statement, that "You don't need to worry about how credentials are stored". And ignoring that need leads to a whole host of usability problems (Ones that I appreciate @……

When you are a C developer, every day is Xmas!
https://www.swift.org/blog/improving-usability-of-c-libraries-in-swift/

Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift
There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct interoperability with C. With a little setup, you can directly use existing C libraries from your Swift code.

PS. With all the Discord stuff, in case you wonder why you never see me promoting Matrix, it’s not because it’s a usability nightmare (which it is) but because it’s made by the kind of people who’d be happy to call ICE a customer.
The “F” in FOSS doesn’t stand for fascism.
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I get a steady stream in my replies of meant-to-be-helpful advice of the form “You should use [complex F/OSS tech] to [do complex thing] that [solves a problem you don’t have but renders the process unusable for the people doing it]”
…when the real tech problems we’re facing on the ground here, both with Signal and other tools, are 99% just ground-level UX stuff:
- basic, basic usability glitches
- workflow friction
- problematic default settings
- reliability

The "Magic Lamp" minimise effect in KDE Plasma looks stupid, but it's actually kinda great for usability. I mean, it's *very* clear where the window went. I'm keeping it.
#Linux #Desktop #KDE

Review of Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold: sturdy but poor camera performance and has some unique design flaws that make it even less polished than regular foldables (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

If your are on Firefox and your are tired of the narrow ass scrollbar go to settings and enable "Always show scrollbars" then in about:config set widget.non-native-theme.enabled to true then set widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override to 15-40.
You can thank https://www.dedoimedo.com/computer…

Usability, wie es nur die #DB in ihrer Lounge hinbekommt: Dort wo man seine Tasse zum einlegen des Teebeutels hinstellt, ist die Fläche minimal und Kante maximal abgerundet. Wer nicht genau hinsieht [oder gar schlecht sieht], dem kippt die Tasse weg und fällt auf den Boden. #deutschebahn

This is what happened to the web when the software industry never spent a moment thinking about long term stability. About users. About usability. About anything other than features and a fast buck.
Among many other failings.
Would be nice to some professionalism in future. One can hope, but I despair.
https://jimsbutchery.com.au

Die größte Lücke im Fediverse existiert derzeit beim Thema Videos.
Ich meine echte Videos, nicht Sekundenschnipsel.
Hier gibt es eigentlich nur PeerTube und dessen Usability ist grausam.
Der mobile Client auf iOS ist praktisch unbenutzbar und die Webseite ist nicht besser.
Es scheitert schon bei simplen Dingen wie einer funktionierenden Suche.
Die Bewertung mit 2.8 Sternen im AppStore ist entsprechend schlecht, eigentlich noch zu gut.
Einzig die Desktop-Webs…

Safari is falling behind by the day.
Its usability is borderline ridiculous.
Mouse over a tab, it shows a preview of the tab, you click, and Safari decided to surprise you show **some** tab.

Anyone else having issues with KeepassXC and Fedora 43? Im guessing its something with Wayland/Qt as I can see this error "qt.qpa.wayland: Wayland does not support QWindow::requestActivate()" Waiting 1-3 minutes for it to open is getting real annoying though. Usability is near nil.