This is known as "cognitive accessibility" and often neglected. MDN has a good writeup on it and mentions ADHD specifically.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/C...

These guidelines are great but none mitigate the disruptiveness and other negative impacts of today's hostile web.

It's not like I'm looking away from my monitor every 5 seconds and then completely forget where I am or what I was doing. Understanding the content is also not an issue.

The real problem is the insidiousness of the advertisements themselves.

> [ad blockers]' continued existence and unhindered operation should be legally protected

I love that idea

I have specifically gone out of my way to maintain a grease monkey script that hides all sorts of things from Facebook. Ads, yes, but also all the other “people you may know”, “suggested for you” and other garbage. It has substantially reduced the time I spend on Facebook, because it’s a lot harder for me to get sucked in, while still allowing me to see the things my actual friends are posting, rather than a post from a company that my friend liked.

Have you looked at FBPurity? It does all that and more.

> as essential as ramps are for wheelchair users Imagine a world where 93% of people used wheelchairs all the time; there would be no stairs

Imagine a world where 93% of people have the Hunter or Edison Gene, no one would have flashy things on webpages, ads or otherwise. That would also mean more than 10 times as many people with amazing creativity and insight and many fewer people who are willing to do the same thing over and over and over and over like 93% of the people in this world. We likely would have found ways to eliminate drudgery for most tasks. Perhaps we would live in a happier world where people were more fulfilled.

@krono, living with the Hunter Gene in a world built for people with the Farmer Gene does not mean you have a problem, dysfunction, affliction, malady, sickness, infirmity, disability, defect, or disorder but does mean you must adapt to a world built for others.

Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. Celebrate and build on your strengths, mitigate your weaknesses as we all should.

Edison Genes [0]

Although ADHD is often described by the problems it presents, several recent studies (see here, here, and here) have reaffirmed other potential advantages linked to the ADHD diagnosis, namely — the ability to think more creatively, and entrepreneurial orientation (EO).

ADHD has been linked to three aspects of creative cognition, namely: divergent thinking, conceptual expansion, and overcoming existing knowledge constraints.

[0] https://medium.com/welded-thoughts/adhd-the-return-of-the-hu...

The blind often have an exceptionally developed sense of hearing. Don't you think they'd much rather just have the ability to see?

These strengths do exist, but are completely wiped off the table and then some by the unimaginable negative impact that these brain function incompatibilities have on daily life.

And then on top of that Google announces they're going to sabotage your accessible toilets and steal your crutches.

Living in a world designed and geared towards others is always going to be harder. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was not born with nor had any dysfunction, affliction, malady, sickness, infirmity, disability, defect, or disorder that caused him to grow to 7’ 2” tall but if you asked him, other than basketball, how easy was it for him to fit into a world built and geared for people well shorter than him, I’m sure he will explain how difficult it is whether it’s fitting into a seat on a bus or a plane or finding pants or shoes that fit. No one would refer to him as having a disorder; he’s just much, much taller than most people. How your brain focuses on tasks or filters stimulating inputs is not a disorder. Embrace that diversity that is you.

< https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/neurodiversity >

Neurodiversity refers to the idea that neurological differences, such as those seen in autism or ADHD, reflect normal variations in brain development. Neurodiversity is often contrasted with the “medical model,” which views conditions like autism or ADHD as disorders to prevent, treat, or cure. There has been a push to move away from this idea of pathology and more toward a more nuanced perspective with variations of what is “normal.”

Definitely. The Attention Economy is unjust to people who have less attention to pay.

A Jimquisition video from today about how microtransactions in video games etc. can also be understood as specifically preying on those with ADHD and other conditions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH2SjNeYq8k