[deathanatos]

> Animations enhance experience by drawing attention to state changes and providing intuitive feedback to user actions.

> If you don't find them engaging or useful, that's fine - and you can set prefers-reduced-motion to true on your client - , but many people do.

The question here is not "does an animation have worth", but how is that worth tied to whether an onclick event originated from the mouse or the keyboard? Your reasoning applies equally to both, and thus leaves us still confused: why are we varying the animation by input device?

[yreg]

The question was "Why not just always turn off the animations?"

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> why are we varying the animation by input device?

Another user explains it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42176540

I don't actually agree, I think you can keep the animation and still make the content available immediately for screen readers. (And of course, keyboard navigation is not just for screen reader users!) Maybe someone else knows of some issue I don't.