Dizzy Users Close Browsers: Balancing Creativity & Accessibility
summary
A clear claim: fast looping visuals and autoplay GIFs can trigger vestibular episodes — transcript cites 35% of US adults over 40 (~69 million) with vestibular dysfunction — and that makes many designs literally sickening. Concrete failures: the Mesopotamia 3D scroll site is invisible to screen readers; concrete successes: the Lemonade insurance site uses subtle, stop-on-input animations and passes accessibility checks, and a small project, MusicPatron, tests well. Practical rule: if the animation doesn’t meaningfully improve the task, use a narrated video or a still.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:55Diagnosis
- 9:37Why I hate animations
- 14:28Is animation indispensable
- 24:36Web vs video
- 25:19The Dizzy website
- 27:25Do I hate animations
- 28:46Types of animations
- 29:37Technological advances
- 33:23Visible Invisible
- 33:42Lemonade
- 34:41Concept
- 35:01Heading
- 35:45Is it groundbreaking
- 36:51Animation
- 37:55Guidelines
- 39:27Accessibility
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