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ChrisArchitectlast Monday at 9:24 PM2 repliesview on HN

An alternate take:

Why GitHub’s War On Toasts Is Bad News For Accessibility

https://medium.com/offmessageorg/why-githubs-war-on-toasts-i...

https://archive.ph/QMMye


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gherkinnnlast Monday at 9:54 PM

A strange take. Toasts don't work so GitHub (and by extension MS) should have gone through W3C to implement a browser-wide solution instead of replacing them with alternatives in their products?

From the GitHub doc:

> User and system initiated actions that are direct and straightforward should be successfully completed as a matter of course. An example of this is creating an Issue, and then seeing the Issue show up on the list of Repo Issues.

The alternative proposes:

> Doing something, even as simple as adding a Jira ticket to a backlog, is not something I want to assume happened. I need to know it happened.

I fail to understand how seeing the created item in context does not let me know beyond any reasonable doubt that it was indeed created. Showing an additional toast adds nothing but noise and only showing a toast even more so.

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Groxxlast Monday at 11:00 PM

"Toasts are inherently bad for accessibility and bad UX, therefore GitHub is bad for not canonizing them into browsers"

... that's a somewhat odd stance to take.