Just Let Me Select Text
a day ago
- #Accessibility
- #UX Design
- #Social Media
- The author expresses loneliness and uses Bumble for social interaction, avoiding Tinder due to safety concerns.
- Frustration arises from encountering profiles in foreign languages, like German, where text cannot be selected or copied for translation.
- The inability to select text in apps like Bumble forces users to use cumbersome workarounds like screenshot OCR, leading to disengagement.
- Non-selectable text in UIs is compared to images or other media, losing functionality like copyability, translation, and accessibility.
- Text is highlighted as fundamental for information processing, being lightweight, accessible, and unambiguous.
- The author condemns disabling text selection as a crime against user comprehension, accessibility, and meaning, urging UI designers to stop this practice.