| As someone who has a pretty serious visual impairment, I find the attitude of so many of these comments really... disappointing. You wouldn't believe how much effort people with poor vision have to go to, to consume the modern web. You can't even take simple things for granted like being able to zoom. So many websites pollute their page with pointless navigation elements that block most of the content when the page is zoomed. Or say pages that try to be elegant, centering everything with some margin. Sure, it looks "great" if no one zooms it. If you do, you wind up consuming the content in three or four word chunks... Or even worse: Elements that have hardcoded minimum widths. When you zoom, nothing reflows and you wind up having tons of content "off screen." At best, this is annoying because you have to constantly scroll horizontally. At worst, you're screwed because for some bizarre reason, scroll bars never appear. I'll wrap my rant up here but I'll leave this: Do you really want the web to be like reality, where the needs of a few are so often ignored simply because of some trait? "Oh, there are so few of them, why bother..."
"Oh, they don't matter because <whatever>" Sound familiar?
I'm sure you can fill in the blanks. The web gives us a unique opportunity to improve on the real world in so, so many ways. Don't waste it. |
I'd like to throttle the first person who ever decided that if the window width would not 'comfortably' accommodate their vision of the page, certain elements would just DISAPPEAR. Like GONE. When you have to zoom out to make hidden elements (not just hanging off the edge, as in never drawn) appear... someone has been naughty.