Baggins [he/him]

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Cake day: June 24th, 2023
  • Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.catoAutism@lemmy.world•Whats your take? Creepy or not?English
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    29 days ago

    For some people it feels easier to give a ‘soft’ rejection, and ‘let you down easy’. People also believe that a soft rejection may help to temper potential violent male responses to being rejected romantically.

    It is misleading when taken literally, and needs to be understood in combination with other social cues. (Does this person show continuing effort to develop a friendship? Do they ever reach out first? Does the dynamic feel one-sided? Do they subsequently make more negative comments that express a disinterest in continuing the friendship or ‘let you down’ further?)

  • Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.catoAutism@lemmy.world•Whats your take? Creepy or not?English
    23·
    29 days ago

    If someone thinks you’re stalking them, that’s a 100% full on red traffic light that they don’t want to continue contact with you and you need to leave them alone. Simple as that. You don’t get to debate or negotiate.

    “Let’s be friends,” is a polite way of declining romantic interest. She is clearly not treating this as a friendly relationship as her comments about you indicate that she didn’t want to continue contact with you.

  • Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.catoADHD@lemmy.world•Fun fact: Autoplaying animation on websites that you can't stop is disability discrimination in the USEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I think you could say an animated loading UI is “essential” since it conveys to the user the program is not frozen. Maybe you could implement a “simple” loading animation if the default one is exceptionally flashy.

    1st paragraph of the WCAG linked by OP:

    unless the movement, blinking, or scrolling is part of an activity where it is essential;

    And further down:

    Note
    An animation that occurs as part of a preload phase or similar situation can be considered essential if interaction cannot occur during that phase for all users and if not indicating progress could confuse users or cause them to think that content was frozen or broken.

    Even further down:

    A “loading” animation
    A preloader animation is shown on a page which requires a certain percentage of a large file to be downloaded before playback can begin. The animation is the only content on the page and instructs the user to please wait while the video loads. Because the moving content is not presented in parallel with other content, no mechanism to pause, stop or hide it needs to be provided, even though the animation may run for more than 5 seconds for users with slower connections.