Re:Ask HN: Do academics still use printers?
by sfpotter on Monday November 21, 2022 @10:23AM
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If you really want to help your colleagues, make it as easy to print as humanly possible. ;-)
I don’t know how many times I’ve had to help older people I work with who are at the end of their chain trying to figure out how to simply print some document, work-related or otherwise. It should be plug and play but it usually isn’t. Technology is really not that intuitive for people who didn’t grow up with it, and what they need is frequently quite different than what “we” (digital natives, I guess) need. Accessibility’s a bitch!
I don’t know how many times I’ve had to help older people I work with who are at the end of their chain trying to figure out how to simply print some document, work-related or otherwise. It should be plug and play but it usually isn’t. Technology is really not that intuitive for people who didn’t grow up with it, and what they need is frequently quite different than what “we” (digital natives, I guess) need. Accessibility’s a bitch!