Disruptive Design: Harmful Patterns and Bad Practice
summary
Finds that low contrast text is the single most common automated accessibility error across the top 1 million sites (WebAIM), blocking people with vision loss; captchas appear on ~4.25% of sites, over 2 million use Google’s reCAPTCHA v3 which scores users invisibly and raises surveillance concerns; a 2017 WebAIM survey names captchas the biggest screen-reader barrier; ad profiling skews delivery (lumber ads ~70% white/90% men, cashier ads ~85% women), showing measurable exclusion.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00The impact of tech jargon
- 3:40Low contrast and accessibility
- 6:30Defining inclusive design
- 8:41The pitfalls of captchas
- 14:40Data profiling and ethics
- 21:20Challenging funding models
- 23:40A call to action for designers
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