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submitted 6 months ago by yesman to c/memes
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Say what you want about Google products, but they're all built to be functional without touchscreens or mice. I fucking love that.

I've been daily driving firefox since the early 2000s, but Mozilla is just about the worst offender, because keyboard options exist, but are obviously programing afterthoughts. In firefox settings, there are some "alt" letters (underlined letters that you can select by pressing alt+that letter) But some of those letters are capitalized, so now, you have to press shift+alt+letter. PAIN

Carrot browsing (navigate websites with the keyboard) can be activated with F7. A dialogue box pops up to confirm and it has the option "do not show this again", but that option is a checkbox only the mouse can check. (no tab over). RAGE

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[–] db2 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Any company that starts off with the motto "don't be evil" and then quietly removes it once day so they can be evil doesn't get a pass for doing what should be the minimum for accessibility.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It wasn't removed, it's still in the employee handbook

[–] db2 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] stratoscaster 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean even "do the right thing" raises some eyebrows. It's easily interpretable as "do the right thing... For the company"

[–] BleatingZombie 3 points 6 months ago

I agree, but it also leaves room for "even when it hurts the company", too

If they can take advantage of the vagueness, then so can I

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It's still in the handbook. I was working there after any of those articles were written.

Doesn't mean anything if it's in there or not - all big companies are evil.

But it is in the handbook. Prominently.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I dunno, man... They start off good, but eventually they either completely kill off something or change it dramatically in ways that make zero sense out of nowhere when it's been perfect and good for over a decade. It's the one major issue I have with Google's products. Can't even use their fucking search engine anymore because it seems like overnight the relevancy of the pages shown based on a search went from 80% accurate to seemingly generated by AI and so completely not what I searched that I actually started using Bing.

Keyboard shortcuts aren't much of a consolation prize.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

they better have perfect UX with that insane market cap

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

lol no, IMO the ux of most google products is garbage