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Comment by lukasm | Hacker News Reader

The site is unreadable.

Here is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEzncMLLOxE

I don't know, I found the audio combined with the text & images incredibly engaging, although I did wish for a visual cue from time to when I lost my place (I was reading in sync, but got distracted).

Perhaps it worked better on your browser, but the content was so delayed that many times I scrolled past it before it decided to load. So I was constantly having to scroll back and forth to try to figure out whether a blank spot was truly blank (sometimes it was). Pretty frustrating. And the irony is almost too much...

There's a big button in the upper right hand corner for an audio version, ya dingus. Ever thought that might be useful for people who can't read the website?

I can read perfectly well. But if the web site I'm looking at is so badly designed that it's unreadable, why should I expect that an audio version will be better thought out?

There are perfectly good reasons for providing audio content on a web site, but having a badly designed site isn't one of them.

I think he GP was referring to visually impaired people, per the post they were responding to (about the "irony", etc.).

I had no problems reading it.

I only see a lot of lines stretching up and down, left and right and sometimes some images and some text appears randomly here and there. It's difficult to know where do I need to stop scrolling in order to continue reading. I understand if some images take some time to load, I would wait for them to load if I had something to read. Having to wait a couple of seconds looking at an empty page while the text is loading? Come on, 14400 modems were faster than this page.

I was a little confused by the complaints, because it worked great for me on Firefox Mobile 33 (ignoring the sloppy editing that resulted in one paragraph appearing twice, search for the phrase "blue whale").

Then I tried again on a desktop. Well, crap.

Resize your browser window until the site switches to tablet mode if you want to read it.

They do provide an audio version.

Thanks, I came to the comment section here looking for a txt version.

I think it was a great presentation of the material. I enjoyed all of it except I think that the audible clicking went on a little too much of the page scroll.

I got some text to show by scrolling down past a bunch of animations and then scrolling up again.

Wow, that video is fairly offensive if you look at the details.

- Video ostensibly made for blind people. Says: "Buy a windows phone." Writes: "Or any other smartphone."

- Video goes "65% of blind people are unemployed." Video suggests: "Buy an expensive smartphone, and a set of expensive special headphones."

- Video goes "65% of blind people are unemployed." Video promises the world, but only if one lives in a city with bluetooth beacons everywhere. ()

And at the end it makes clear why everything is so incongruous, they want to have everyone use this as a personal assistant.

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