about site styling in re usability

[Ryan]

On Thu 06 Dec 2012 02:10:20 PM EST, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2012-12-06 12:35 (GMT-0500) Máirín Duffy composed:
>
>> On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 11:34 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
>
>>> I guess you missed the chicken and egg point. The site is difficult
>>> to use in
>>> its current state. I get aggravated by that difficulty constantly on
>>> sites
>>> I'm forced to use. I'm strongly disinclined to further the
>>> aggravation on
>>> sites I'm not forced to use.
>
>> If your personal goal is to make the web more legible, that seems like a
>> serious handicap in actually helping.
>
> There are different ways of "actually helping". Handicaps are
> precisely the problem, particularly the totally needless _artificial_
> handicaps created by common web site styling. One way of helping is
> reporting they exist to those who may be empowered to remove them,
> which isn't so hard as getting anyone with the power to acknowledge
> anything should be done about them.

The point is, around here, you have the power to do something about it!

regards,
ryanlerch