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0 pointswruza1y ago0 comments

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This is not true. Mobile platforms do help with tapping on small elements. E.g. HN isn't mobile friendly "as is", but I have no issues with tapping any of the links. I've also used Exante mobile trading terminal for some time and had no issues with it either.

I agree that accessibility still is the concern, but watching my grandma struggle with her tablet, it's mostly the fact that buttons aren't buttons and everything jumps around like clowns in circus and cannot stop, instead of being a proper user interface. I bet she'd have similar issues with appliances if their design was just random flat symbols on white surfaces that randomly disappear.

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g15jv2dp1y ago

> This is not true. Mobile platforms do help with tapping on small elements. E.g. HN isn't mobile friendly "as is", but I have no issues with tapping any of the links. I've also used Exante mobile trading terminal for some time and had no issues with it either.

Good for you, maybe your phone screen is huge. I routinely tap on the wrong element when using HN on mobile. Even on desktop I have to set the zoom level to 125%.

zo11y ago

This is why I miss resistive screens on phones where you had to actually use your fingernail or stylus and it bloody worked so well. Instead, everyone wanted to get rid of buttons for screen real estate and make phones "sexy" and screens should "swipe it up and down Iphone mega mega smooth swipe pinch swipe, magic gestures, etc". And then that drove an entire industry and it's direction for two decades after that, now we're all complaining because we let the designers drive functionality and usability.

Either way, mobile browsers do allow one to "zoom" in into the UI for smaller elements, it's just we're all lazy and don't want to do that.

Bluestein1y ago

> Iphone mega mega smooth swipe pinch swipe, magic gestures, etc"

Ghost of Jobs still haunts ...

camdenreslink1y ago

I'm not vision impaired (I actually have very good vision), and I also zoom HN way in (150%) on desktop. Just feels uncomfortably small and the lines of text are way too long.

wruzaOP1y ago

4.7" iphone. They enlarge tap regions for tappable elements since forever, so you can’t miss.

mrgoldenbrown1y ago

If you have 3 tap regions already adjacent before enlargement, how does enlarging them help? Like the w, a and s keys on a keyboard. Making the regions larger will just make them overlap.

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prometheon11y ago

You can miss quite easily if there is another tappable element right next to the one you are trying to click

Aeolun1y ago

> I bet she'd have similar issues with appliances if their design was just random flat symbols on white surfaces that randomly disappear.

That sounds like the control panel for my fridge :)

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