I\u2019m helping my elderly mother (93) adapt to a new computer. It\u2019s an iMac. She\u2019s had Mac\u2019s for the last 25 years.<\/p>
Mostly this is fine. But man, Apple has completely lost their way with accessibility. Some things, obviously are world-leading. I don\u2019t want to ignore that.<\/p>
But the fucking mouse gestures. In Apple Mail you cannot turn off left-right swipe gestures. My mother, with her arthritic hands, cannot reliably do just vertical. It tends to be diagonal. Swiping on a mouse is great. But we need LESS gesture.<\/p>
In Apple mail the little set of buttons that allows you to see the existence of attachments and download them only appears if you move the mouse. If you leave the mouse alone a few seconds, it disappears. So trying to tell her where to look for something? It disappears before I can get her to focus on it.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-21:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/users\/paco\/statuses\/116467078986341061","object":{"id":"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/users\/paco\/statuses\/116467078986341061","objectType":"note","content":"
I\u2019m helping my elderly mother (93) adapt to a new computer. It\u2019s an iMac. She\u2019s had Mac\u2019s for the last 25 years.<\/p>
Mostly this is fine. But man, Apple has completely lost their way with accessibility. Some things, obviously are world-leading. I don\u2019t want to ignore that.<\/p>
But the fucking mouse gestures. In Apple Mail you cannot turn off left-right swipe gestures. My mother, with her arthritic hands, cannot reliably do just vertical. It tends to be diagonal. Swiping on a mouse is great. But we need LESS gesture.<\/p>
In Apple mail the little set of buttons that allows you to see the existence of attachments and download them only appears if you move the mouse. If you leave the mouse alone a few seconds, it disappears. So trying to tell her where to look for something? It disappears before I can get her to focus on it.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/@paco\/116467078986341061","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-26:objectType=thread:nonce=b889049b20a1e76d","notice_info":{"local_id":"12511753","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-26T14:13:59+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/@paco\/116467078986341061"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.ar.al\/users\/aral","displayName":"Aral Balkan","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/4627-original-tmp20250906070226.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/4627-96-20250906071718.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/4627-48-20250906071718.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/4627-24-20250906071718.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"4627"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/4627-96-20250906071718.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Social oncologist. I make small things.Unapologetically anti-genocide.Warning: May not fit your taxonomy.From Gaza? If you need to get verified, please go here: https:\/\/gaza-verified.org\/join\/Want to donate to people in Gaza? Please see https:\/\/gaza-verified.org\/donate\/My posts are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/)\ud83c\udf49\ud83c\udf3b \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\u26a7\ufe0f#SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #tech #privacy #humanRights #personhood #democracy #aral #fedi22 #searchable","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.ar.al\/@aral","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"aral","displayName":"Aral Balkan","note":"Social oncologist. I make small things.Unapologetically anti-genocide.Warning: May not fit your taxonomy.From Gaza? If you need to get verified, please go here: https:\/\/gaza-verified.org\/join\/Want to donate to people in Gaza? Please see https:\/\/gaza-verified.org\/donate\/My posts are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/)\ud83c\udf49\ud83c\udf3b \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\u26a7\ufe0f#SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #tech #privacy #humanRights #personhood #democracy #aral #fedi22 #searchable"}},"content":"
@paco<\/a> @skua<\/a> Forget about all that, how\u2019s she enjoying the Liquid Glass?<\/p> I give it three years max before they label accessibility \u201cwoke\u201d.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-21:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.ar.al\/users\/aral\/statuses\/116471370738678596","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.ar.al\/users\/aral\/statuses\/116471370738678596","objectType":"note","content":" @paco<\/a> @skua<\/a> Forget about all that, how\u2019s she enjoying the Liquid Glass?<\/p> I give it three years max before they label accessibility \u201cwoke\u201d.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.ar.al\/@aral\/116471370738678596","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/users\/paco\/statuses\/116467078986341061","url":"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/@paco\/116467078986341061"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/users\/paco"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/skua"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-26:objectType=thread:nonce=b889049b20a1e76d","notice_info":{"local_id":"12511754","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-26T14:13:58+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.ar.al\/@aral\/116471370738678596"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/6352733","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}