The web is fucked and there’s nothing we can do about it. Kev Quirk looks back fondly at Web 1.0.

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    1 year ago

    Accessibility wasn’t the main topic discussed in the article

    That’s part of the problem. All these rants about the glory of Web 1.0 are ignoring the fact that Web 1.0 wasn’t usable for anybody with accessibility issues and the modern web is better for them. A tiny acknowledgement at the bottom of their rant shows how they value accessibility lower than all of their other concerns.

    • I don’t think accessibility is meant in term of disabled people.

      I understood it as accessible in terms of technical knowledge. Anyone can whip out their phone and access the internet… or at least use an app which needs internet.

      Eternal September is another term for it.

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        Accessibility almost always refers to disabled people, especially in web development. I’ve never heard anyone in the industry refer to accessibility in any other way, without explicitly making that clear.

        If they meant the reading you took from it, that’s even worse and my point is even more pertinent.

        • If they meant the reading you took from it, that’s even worse and my point is even more pertinent.

          Why? The internet is a powerful tool and there are plenty of morons using it without knowing anything about it.

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            my original point was that the main idea of the article down plays the accessibility gains of the modern web. Your reading was that the author meant a different definition of accessibility and not A11y, which would mean the author didn’t just down play it, they completely ignored it. The author is complaining that the modern web is awful, while ignoring the huge gains for people who need these accessibility features and how awful web 1.0 was for them

            • I think the author used both meanings at different times.

              First time they mention interesting website designs at the cost of accessibility.

              But the second time they mean how low the technical barrier is to access the modern (and bland) web and how it tries to caters to lowest common denominator.

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      The article wasn’t really about Web 1.0 as much as it was about the time that Web 1.0 was around. The author could remove “Web 1.0” and replace it with “late 1990s to early 2000s Internet”.

      That’s part of the problem.

      No, thats just the angle that the article wanted to take. Just because it ignores an aspect of something doesn’t mean that its position is moot.

      Are you asking for every article ever to have a section discussing accessibility? I’d rather we let the author speak their mind, and focus on what they want to say.

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        Are you asking for every article ever to have a section discussing accessibility?

        No. I’m asking that when they complain about how the modern web is “fucked” and web 1.0 was better, they don’t try to act like that is an absolute, since that’s an opinion that is not widely applicable.

        No, thats just the angle that the article wanted to take. Just because it ignores an aspect of something doesn’t mean that its position is moot.

        Ignoring part of a topic makes your argument weaker.

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          they don’t try to act like that is an absolute

          Again, to write an article means to cut out things that don’t matter to the core argument. You’re asking for the writer to complete a thesis.

          Ignoring part of a topic makes your argument weaker.

          And again, this is an opinion piece, not a well developed thesis. What you are asking for is both unreasonable and impractical when writing an opinion piece.