[sportslife]

Notifications that disappear after a few seconds are a scourge that I've seen my surprisingly tech-literate mother struggle with too. I wonder if there is any work around accessibility and ui-notification duration or history.

[xiphias2]

Work should be about just testing everything with old people now that companies practically require them to use smartphones.

[MandieD]

Tech advocacy for older people should be a core role for groups like AARP; not just rating which devices they might like best, but having UI/UX staff who specialize in understanding the needs of older people AND lobbying to make sure “accessibility” includes them.

Do not get me started on constant UI “improvements” - just when I have our 85-year-old aunt confident in handling iOS’s last changes to Photo or Camera, they move some common item to the other end of the screen.

Also, not having an option to show passwords as you enter them. After one update that forced a password re-entry, I ended up having to send her to her mobile provider to enter it for her, since we’re on the other side of the country and she didn’t have any younger neighbors she or I trusted with her iCloud password.