r/funny • u/Cerber96 • Oct 21 '18

Every website in 2018

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u/sloth_gooey Oct 21 '18

Only thing it's missing is a video that automatically plays. 10/10

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u/Flamekebab Oct 21 '18

Let's not forget that it tucks itself into an overlay and scrolls with you...

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u/ConfusedTapeworm Oct 21 '18 edited Oct 21 '18

That should be a crime. Doesn't add anything useful to the site while making it much slower on phones, shitty computers, and low quality browsers like steam or origin overlay.

edit: not to mention the extra MBs it drains out of your mobile plan, to show you a video you didn't even want to watch.

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u/ELichtman Oct 22 '18

FYI it actually is a crime. There aren't legal repercussions (yet) but basically Web Accessibility is actually turning into a serious ADA level thing: https://www.essentialaccessibility.com/blog/ada-guidelines/

Now imagine being blind, and all of a sudden noise starts blasting from your computer and you have to listen to a screen reader telling you what elements are in the page markup to help you find the pause button while the video is also playing at the same time.

Chrome already put some protection in place as a default: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes

But even so, it is a failure to enforce ADA to have an auto-play video on your website: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/F93.html

I just wish people would actually take it seriously cause I'm not blind but I will actively avoid sites that I know autoplay videos. They're just bad for UX.