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The software that my company makes has contrast issues. There was a design fad a few years ago where light grey should be used, never white; and dark grey used, never black. Throw in some red-on-dark-grey error messages, and the results are unreadable. I'm in my late 40s and trying to convince people in a company where everyone is in their 20s that there is a problem is challenging.
I think eventually, especially now that baby boomers are getting old, high contrast will become the norm. I remember trying to sell "accessibility features" 10 years ago was almost impossible. No one wanted to invest in something only a few people would use. Then smart phones became commonplace, and all of a sudden everyone wanted adaptable websites.
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Yvan Rodrigues wrote: trying to convince people in a company where everyone is in their 20s that there is a problem is challenging.
I think eventually, especially now that baby boomers are getting old,
What's needed in our industry is basic market research and beta testing: study the demographics, match with the target audience, and do live product surveys! If you had 100 people in a room testing your app, and 20% of them said "I can't read this!", that would be Hugely (Bigly, even!) unacceptable. With the boomer population trending the way it is, you'll see higher numbers than that!
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My father-in-law is in his mid 80s and has lost a little over 30% of his visual acuity to glaucoma.
As others have said, faint outlines on text boxes, grey text, particularly on pastel backgrounds, and tiny-type are his biggest challenges - and in the age of lockdowns pages and apps with those features are the only way to stay connected to family, friends and shopping. The ADA standards need to embraced by UI developers - at least to the point of providing an button for "Make this page readable" or a "Simplified View" to unclutter an app and allow for larger text and buttons. [His skin is quite dry at his age and his fingers are calloused from decades of farming. A stylus is only a marginal help as his hands shake a bit too much to accurately pick tiny spots on the screen of his phone and laptop with either a fingertip or a stylus pen.
It's maddeningly frustrating for a still-independent adult to have to put up with faddish, self-absorbed designs.
Yes, I know it's a brand thing, but designers need to consider the entire audience - even the ones that aren't part of the "target" demographic. He loves the internet - that's the only way he can see his great-grandchildren and the other members of his family, who all live out of state.
-Bob
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Teeny tiny fonts and low contrast are the natural result of equipping 25-year-old developers with gigantic monitors. They should have to program on their phones. When they are 50, they will regret the choices they made, but in the meantime it's a form of age discrimination.
The world is just arriving at the point where display power consumption is proportional to how white the screen is. Low-contrast screens will, I hope, become known as power-hungry, and the developers will finally be permitted to override the industrial design people.
Personally, the use of low contrast text displays is so pervasive that I keep my display in inverse-video mode, because the alternative is staring into a bright white lightbulb.
Pitchforks and torches ready! Storm the Corporate towers! Death to designers!
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SeattleC++ wrote: Teeny tiny fonts and low contrast are the natural result of equipping 25-year-old developers with gigantic monitors. They should have to program on their phones.
ROFL! Couldn't agree more! But wait!--- maybe the "designers" are all in cahoots with the display mfgrs to force everyone to buy bigger monitors!! 
SeattleC++ wrote: Pitchforks and torches ready! Storm the Corporate towers! Death to designers!
HAHAHA! I'm sure you're on somebody's watch-list now! 
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B. L. Zeebub wrote: Couldn't agree more! But wait!--- maybe the "designers" are all in cahoots with the display mfgrs to force everyone to buy bigger monitors!!
I don't think so, but it might explain why cell phones are getting too big to put into your pocket.
B. L. Zeebub wrote: SeattleC++ wrote: Pitchforks and torches ready! Storm the Corporate towers! Death to designers!
HAHAHA! I'm sure you're on somebody's watch-list now!
For pitchforks and torches? They'll never take me alive.
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Too many templates and too many amateur "web masters".
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I regularly peruse the lists of films at Apple trailers. In particular the Genres list. For some unknown mysterious reason Apple presents the names of the genres in the list of films in exactly the same font and font size and font color as the names of the films. So is "Thriller" a genre or a Science Fiction film? So how do I find a particular genre? I have written to them many times over many months suggesting they display the genre name in a different font or size or color with no effect.
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Great pointer! Thanks for that!
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Is a pig that does Karate a pork chop?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Not sure, but they do like to ham it up while practicing Ba-Con-Do.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Is Barbie into Ken-Do?
If a developer learns Kung Fu does he need to learn Kung Bar as well?
Is karate a Canadians response to “What vegetable are you eating?”
Is it Gentile Jitsu when you aren’t fighting the guy in a yarmulke?
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Are their airiel kicks described as swine flu?
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When a pig needs money, does it hock its ham?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Sounds like a monday morning.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Did you find out your answer?
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AstraZeneca's vaccine, with all of it's improved stability and ease of handling, just found out something they hadn't expected. The US regulators who grant EUA (Emergency Use Authorization) are not simply there to rubber-stamp through any vaccine that's submitted to them. They are seriously looking into them.
AstraZeneca supplied outdated data, potentially data that skews its efficacy and thus improve its chances of getting the EUA for the US. I, personally, would like to get the latest data on the efficacy for older persons (which was or is still problematic).
The good news: more confidence that US regulators aren't rubber-stamping this stuff through.
The bad news: less trust than before* in the AstraZeneca vaccine - especially with three alternatives available (here).
One of many articles[^]
* bad reports w.r.t. effectiveness on the elderly just 'disappeared' from the news
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Not surprising; where's there's money to be made there is sure to be corruption!
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Alas, so true.
Interestingly, I often squeeze the truest version of the news out of the business sections. Politics causes skewing of reality but even politics is driven, ultimately, by money.
The business point of view of the various articles is not so much about the efficacy of the drug as how it hurt the stock because doubts where cast (and thus the why's).
Look on the bright side: we're not being offered Sputnik V or Sinovac
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Thankfully we had the Pfizer vaccine.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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AstraZeneca has a 79% efficacy rate as apposed to Pfizer 95%+ efficacy rate. That rate drops as age increases over 65. do the math. AstraZeneca sucks.
I got my first Pfizer shot 3/14. Getting the second one next week.
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Actually, it's the 79% that's being questioned. The age data magically disappeared from the public discourse. (So did blood type related and info w.r.t. serious results if you get COVID).
The important part . . . if it's true . . . is protection from serious illness. I wasn't worried about catching COVID so much as being hospitalized and/or dying because of it. They claim it's 100% effective for that. Their claims, however, have just gotten a kick in the nuts.
My Pfizer second shot plus two weeks happened yesterday. Shopping without gloves, taking mail in and opening it the same day, and for the shopping, not sanitizing all the food. Mrs. Wife actually went to a restaurant with a friend (she had Moderna a week earlier to start so we graduated together).
Irony: Oxford/AstraZeneca had a major head start over all the other vaccines (the Oxford part). Lesson learned: the new technology, mRNA, is going to be amazingly important because of both flexibility and development speed. And not containing any infectious vectors, dead or weakened.
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