Re:Show HN: Bike – macOS Native Outliner
by johnknowles on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @01:50PM
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Strong disagree to both of these points. Nothing "insensitive", save your comment. Devices have audio controls, no need to repeat them in a video player-especially not one on a landing page for a product. Background music for promotional material is standard, and all too necessary.
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> Devices have audio controls, no need to repeat them in a video player
You assume that the web page is the only source of audio happening on a device. If someone is listening to something on their machine while browsing articles and then needs to stop whatever is playing because the website is taking over the audio, that's very poor UX and is indeed insensitive to the user.
Suppose you have a screen reader and now you cannot hear it because a video is unnecessarily blaring music that you can't hide. 99.99% of all websites offer the user individual audio control over playing content -- for a reason.
Re:Show HN: Bike – macOS Native Outliner
by johnknowles on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @02:42PM
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Making me think that maybe you should be insensitive to certain users
> Making me think that maybe you should be insensitive to certain users
People with screen readers usually have an accessibility issue, so you are advocating to ignore the visually impaired, for example.