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Comment by Queue29 | Hacker News Reader

This blog post is literally unreadable with animations flying around covering up content, is that by design?

It also ignores the "prefers-reduced-motion" CSS Media feature flag :(

so? this isnt about accessibility its about preference. i prefer white backgrounds but im not sad when a site author chooses pink.

How should you know whether it's about accessibility? The `prefers-reduced-motion` feature is explicitly[0] intended to accommodate people with vestibular motion disorders, which are common above age 40.[1]

[0]: https://drafts.csswg.org/mediaqueries-5/#prefers-reduced-mot...

[1]: https://vestibular.org/article/what-is-vestibular/about-vest...

If it's really bad, couldn't they apply userstyles that disable all animation with `!important`? `prefers-*` settings seem somewhat optional, best-effort, based on their name.

Sure, please write it, ship it, and then support my 8+ aging family members who need to use it.

Or just follow the spec.

Dang! I didn't know this was a thing! Thanks!!

This feels like back in the 90s with those GIF-laden scrolling text webpages. I can't fathom what goes into the mind of a designer creating all this nonsense for what basically is a table report. Does anyone in their right mind expect people would be more attracted by banners frolicking around?

> I can't fathom what goes into the mind of a designer

Don't underestimate the damage an overly eager and naive developer can do.

Or, (maybe more likely in this case?) a CMS author who's been given a little bit too much power?

Probably, they want you to download their report which requires a work email nad personal details.

The website has been updated to resolve some of the animation issues - is it better now?

These blog posts used to be really good in comparing different clouds; I'm not sure why they decided that this was the optimal way to display this information.

The JavaScript console is your friend:

document.querySelectorAll('.aos-init').forEach(e => e.remove())

The above will remove all of those popups.

I have Windows zoomed in at 125% and at my 1080p height screen some content boxes don't even fit my full view height. Thankfully the full report is direct linked here.

I had confirmed that the overlay is intended teasing to get you to download the PDF.

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