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lynnandtonic.com

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I can't select text. A huge accessibility issue. A site like that is disqualified by default. The whole content is in a thin stripe in the middle, left and right huge areas unused. Resizing the browser window causes weird effects.

If that's a case study how to not do things: Congrats! Job well done!

Text selection works for me (using Firefox).

The squash and stretch effect is certainly not to my taste but it's a personal site, where people should feel they can try things out. I do think the effect should be disabled when users have "reduce motion" enabled.

Actually I can select text too it seems, but I can't see the selection and it acts weirdly. Probably some JavaScript overloading user interactions.

I need to use the "Allow Right Click" extension (it also fixes other annoyances than just pure right click blocking) to make it act sanely.

Every detail here seems like an anti-feature.

The squash/stretch looks exactly like what happens when you resize a canvas element incorrectly in a responsive design.

I had to stop reading and come back just to even understand this much to comment. The color scheme and font choices are unbearably nauseating.

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