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Re:Apple has gone to extraordinary lengths to make scroll ba... by ShroudedNight on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @04:51PM (#26416752)
> I'm talking about preferences, not accessibility requirements.

It's not clear to me that those two things are neatly separated. I have a ~25th percentile visual memory - my brain does very poorly having to process and retain images, but text is very easy. I can, eventually, navigate visually, but at a much higher energy cost than the average. Is my affinity for text a preference or an accessibility concern?

Re:Apple has gone to extraordinary lengths to make scroll ba... by throwaway894345 on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:28AM (#26420604)
I wouldn’t be surprised if some tiny portion of the population could legitimately claim an accessibility reason for scrollbars, however tenuous. But certainly not 10% or even 10% of 10%. Further, “accessibility requirements” refers to explicit, medically diagnosed issues not speculation about a preferences vs needs continuum. Moreover, as previously mentioned, accessibility requirements are out of scope—the assumption is that we’re talking about (at most) 10% of users who have a simple preference or custom for scrollbars. If we’re talking about accessibility the calculus is different, but that’s a distinct topic for another thread.