Quad Gods: The world-class gamers who play with their mouths

You're not alone, unfortunately. 17 years ago, I went to the office, and by 10am, my right hand wouldn't move much . This wasn't exceedingly pleasant, and was a fairly common case of cts/rsi/etc. I had had rsi issues previously which had been very painful, but never something which to me looked like some kind of partial paralysis.

So I started looking into it, and realized that I could greatly improve my situation by paying attention to ergonomics, starting with my mouse. First problem : convincing tech support to replace my old ball mouse with a led one. They didn't want to give me a new one since 'it was obviously a joke'...

The good news is that things are a lot better now than they used to be, from decent mice and keyboards (ergo mechanical keyboards are a godsend) to all kinds of accessibility options in OSes, and rsi issues being broadly known. Rather surprisingly I'm in less pain now than I used to be (some things will most likely remain off-limits forever, such as using a laptop ), after having adjusted mouse, keyboard, chair, screens, font sizes, and general software environment to avoid doing 'bad' movements.

In any case, if you want to go down this road, please do! You'll improve everyone's life.

At the risk of this becoming a meme: do you do strength training? I used to get persistent burning sensations (RSI related) in my hands after a day of computer use which has completely vanished after I started lifting heavy. You get the benefits of an aesthetic improvement too, which is nice.

> I think accessibility is going to become more important as Millennials start to age. I'm only in my mid-30's and already have RSI and CTS due to decades of mouse use & bad ergonomics. I suspect I'm not alone.

Definitely a pattern I'm seeing on the Web, accessibility is becoming more and more important, and "bending over backwards" for the user/client is on the horizon.

Furthermore, I think accessibility will be the breaking point between huge dinosaurs like Facebook and Twitter and small communities of dozens, hundreds, and thousands of members.

The big ones will have to choose between opening up the platform to accessibility, which inevitably also means opening it up to automation, abuse, and data flight -or- alienating an increasing number of accessibility users. Either way is not that attractive.