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accessibility_fail2010-12-01 08:38 am
delight) wrote in accessibility_fail2010-12-01 08:38 am
Disaspora website + visual impairment + migraines = WTF
So I got really excited when I heard that Diaspora, an alternative social network, had gone live when liv posted about it, and went to look at their site. This proved to be a mistake, because I could stay on their page for about two seconds before running and taking an anti-emetic and getting my eye patch and a cold compress. I think I'm only one of a few people in the world who has issues with straight white-on-black, but I can't be the only one.
The link is www.diasp.org, but I wouldn't advise clicking if you have ever in your life gotten a serious headache or have any vision problems. I can't even read words on that page.
I was completely shocked because it never seemed to me that Diaspora had this much fail about them, especially not in a) design or b) usability. I have since learned by a fluke of just trying it in another browser and leaving off the 'www' that just going to diasp.org produces a very nice and not ow website UNLESS you have issues with straight black-on-white (I don't except during a migraine attack; if you do don't click, it is VERY bright).
Seriously, Diaspora people, what is up with that, and why? I hope it's just a code glitch. I really, really hope. It makes no sense that anything remotely like this would be done on purpose, but not catching it is still accessibility_fail.
liv posted about it, and went to look at their site. This proved to be a mistake, because I could stay on their page for about two seconds before running and taking an anti-emetic and getting my eye patch and a cold compress. I think I'm only one of a few people in the world who has issues with straight white-on-black, but I can't be the only one.The link is www.diasp.org, but I wouldn't advise clicking if you have ever in your life gotten a serious headache or have any vision problems. I can't even read words on that page.
I was completely shocked because it never seemed to me that Diaspora had this much fail about them, especially not in a) design or b) usability. I have since learned by a fluke of just trying it in another browser and leaving off the 'www' that just going to diasp.org produces a very nice and not ow website UNLESS you have issues with straight black-on-white (I don't except during a migraine attack; if you do don't click, it is VERY bright).
Seriously, Diaspora people, what is up with that, and why? I hope it's just a code glitch. I really, really hope. It makes no sense that anything remotely like this would be done on purpose, but not catching it is still accessibility_fail.
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Having just signed up at diasp.org (thanks jessamyn) I've just thought to do a whois on it, and I can see no connection between it and the actual diaspora devs; looks like it's just some random guy running a diaspora pod. Since I have no more reason to trust some random guy running a diaspora pod with my personal information than I have to trust MyBeeboFace, and since it just handed me, via unsecured http, an xml file containing what appears to be my diaspora private key: account closed. I'll wait until I get my own pod going before playing again, I think.
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