#just let me long-press highlight and copy paste 😭

[peilinsirpale]

One of the worst parts of modern app design: disabling highlight-copy-paste

[sleepycelestialprincess]

(here are the tags of the original post) #i feel like this is becoming more and more common #and as someone who regularly sends people posts and stuff feat. highlight quotes - i hate this#even on Tumblr you automatically copy the whole of the paragraph and then i need to paste it somewhere else to properly select the quote #like when I wanna highlight smth in my tags #just let me long-press highlight and copy paste 😭 #i am using highlight here for two meanings - the 'showcase best' kind and 'blue overlay of what you're gonna copy' kind #anyway

My Thoughts:

This also makes it more difficult for people who like to highlight as they are reading to keep their place. It's equivalent to following along in a book with your finger or a bookmark. It just takes away something so basic that made it easily accessible to more people.

In another reblog, someone mentioned the ability to pause video! Particularly on in5tagram, I don’t bother with tick-t0ck, I can’t process anything that fast! I want watch the video from the beginning and not have to try to figure out where the beginning is in an endless loop. I hate the automated captions on In5tagram that disappear the instant the last word appears!!! There is an accessibility setting in IG that auto captions that works better but its a lot of text all over the screen at once. I’m just kinda done with IG. I hate it so much!

I also really dislike in many desktop apps where buttons are invisible until you hover over them! Like, how the F* am I supposed to know there is a button there?!! Oh, also buttons where the entire button box isn’t actually clickable, but only the text in the button. Like why the button then??!!!

TLDR: I just know that if I, a somewhat neurodivergent person finds this frustrating, how unusable is this stuff for people with disabilities?! It nearly seams intentionally inhospitable to those they don’t want using their site or app.

One of the worst parts of modern app design: disabling highlight-copy-paste