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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2012-10-31 11:13 pm
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Rottit. Also Aargh

Not sure what I'm going to do when lj puts in this new friends' page coding. If I can still do style=mine then I'm OK; but, as with the default view they put in last time, the new coding can't be viewed at 800x600 which is what presbyopic me prefers to read in. I have a DW account but their layouts are even more unfriendly than LJ's. I suppose I could try figuring out a way of coding that journal so it looks like this-- though actually this journal is a default layout, so even that might be beyond me.

Stupid stupid livejournal.

PS Oh, and what if I change my password to Ih8LiveJournal? Will that satisfy your officious concern that my password is too easy to guess? No. Surely that's one of the 'common passwords used by thousands of people' that they disallow.
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[personal profile] chomiji 2012-11-01 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)

If you haven't yet, could you please complain at the post astronewt made, very specifically with the wheres and whys of this issue, just as you did here? (Go ahead and copy and paste - might explicate the presbyopia terminology a bit: twenty-somethings who don't have it may not be aware of the terms.)

No guarantees, but from the looks of the most recent backpedaling, part of the problem is that they're unaware of the nature of the issues. Yeah, it's stupid, they're supposed to be professionals, but they're far from the only vendors of web-based products who miss a lot of this stuff. We have to re-educate people in the basics of accessibility all the time at my office, and for us, it's required by law ... yet people still don't know about it (and often push back because it's a hassle, man). It's effin' tedious, but it's worth the fight if it actually changes anything (as it apparently did in this case).

Otherwise, they just hear a lot of &$$&$#%$ LJ! *#@!$$@& LJ, $&%#!!

(And no, it may not make one micro-iota of difference, but it's worth a try.)

[identity profile] nekonexus.livejournal.com 2012-11-01 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)
(nm. redundant was I for not mousing over link. carry on.)

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2012-11-01 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Have done so, and hope it helps.

[identity profile] i-am-zan.livejournal.com 2012-11-01 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
oooh can you link me your thread please. I'd like to ditto your comment because my fears and apprehensions are the same as yours. I suppose it might help a little (if at all) if more of us make a point of this not being a good idea for some of us.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2012-11-01 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Found it. My they've been busy over there. Here (http://lj-releases.livejournal.com/79629.html?thread=10148621#t10148621).