New answers tagged accessibility
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Should Escape key close non modal dialogs?
You can't use Escape to close non-modal dialogs. This is because they don't interfere between the user and the main content. To close a non-modal dialog, you need to use a tab to select the close ...
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Page indicator dots - necessary, useful or redundant?
Yea, I typically like to assume the worst. It doesn't hurt to have the pagination indicator there.
Another benefit of having the pagination is to instantly show the user how many cards they have on ...
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Page indicator dots - necessary, useful or redundant?
From an accessibilty POV: Some users can not "clearly see" your intentions here.
Based on your mockup and your post, I suggest you address how you want to present the information represented ...
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Page indicator dots - necessary, useful or redundant?
I did a quick research and there are two different options vertical stacks and horizontal stacks. What I saw is that digital wallets are more often presented as vertical stacks like apple wallet, ...
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
Web app vs Web site
There is a strong consensus in other answers that for web sites ctrl+f should not be hijacked.
However there is some leeway for content editing applications as webapps (not ...
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
Ctrl + K is also a commonly used alternative to Ctrl + F. Examples:
https://laravel.com/docs/11.x
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/
https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.3/
https://nodejs.org/en
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
I am merely a dev and user and this is merely a personal opinion. I have no experience as a designer whatsoever.
There are times when I am on a website which uses some form of lazy loading, combined ...
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
I agree with the other answers here but wanted to add a small addition. In certain web apps like Azure DevOps the default ctrl+f is used everywhere but if you use ctrl+f while focused in a code view ...
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
Depends on your definition of "acceptable", but if it means "done by a major web app vendor"; you should note that Google Sheets (Googles web spreadsheet app, which is extremely ...
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
In general I agree with other answers here that CTRL+F should not be redefined. However, you mentioned that this is specifically for infinite scrolling content. In that specific case, redefining CTRL+...
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
What does CTRL+F (usually) do? Thus what do user expect it to do?
It searches for the entered string on the currently open page, jumping to the first occurrence and perhaps even showing all ...
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
When you use shortcut keys, you need to make sure they don't interfere
with screenreader shortcut combinations.
Also, as it's been pointed out several times already, Ctrl+F is already in use.
But if ...
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
No.
People are used to their existing search that works across all websites.
Stripe API documentation overrides CTRL+F behavior and I hate it
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
While I agree with GWv's answer, you may want to consider this alternative. I recall using a site that hijacked the CTRL+F feature by showing their own search dialog, but at the same time had a ...
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
CTRL+F has an important feature by default in that it does not change page content: No elements of the page appear, disappear, or change content when typing and submitting find queries.
Focusing a ...
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
I would always tell people in my team (and remind myself) to be very very careful overriding any default browser behavior and only go for it if you are certain its an improvement. Through testing and ...
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Values on alt tags for accessibility
Firstly, it's probably sensible to challenge your plan to use images for charts; alt text can provide a suitable substitute for text for users with some assistive technology, but aren't nearly as ...
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Why use rem units for spacing and sizing, instead of px units?
Most users use phones, tablets or laptops with limited screen space. The bigger the spacing, the fewer content elements can be displayed on the screen.
Some people require very large text indeed. We'...
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Accessiblity and labeling multiple buttons
I would encourage you to think also TTS (text-to-speech) users and add a unique identification to the generic call to action text right after the visible label. That means that your accessible label ...
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Why use rem units for spacing and sizing, instead of px units?
Only your 3rd point makes sense. Keep in mind that, the larger the content, the more space is needed around it to keep the visual proportions the same, otherwise the intention of the spacing loses its ...
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Why use rem units for spacing and sizing, instead of px units?
I think that this has become a common problem for designers since the tech world has increase the integration between Dev & Design. In the past developers were not pushed by designers to cover all ...
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Why use rem units for spacing and sizing, instead of px units?
I think rem are have many advantages over px's for sure and you will find tons of articles around this.
The nature of rem itself is responsiveness and like you mentioned today we most of the mass have ...
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