RE: Distractions - always negative?

Absolutely especially if you are about to select something that might delete all your work if you are not alerted to that fact by something that makes you pause!

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E.A.

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From: Neil Milliken [mailto:Neil.Milliken@bbc.co.uk]
Sent: 30 April 2015 14:50
To: Anthony Doran; public-cognitive-a11y-tf@w3.org
Subject: RE: Distractions - always negative?

Hi Tony,

You raise a very valid point.

Neil
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From: Anthony Doran [t.doran@texthelp.com]
Sent: 30 April 2015 14:41
To: public-cognitive-a11y-tf@w3.org<mailto:public-cognitive-a11y-tf@w3.org>
Subject: Distractions - always negative?
Hi All,

   Just wanted to kick about an idea - is distraction always negative? For example if a site features some additional AT, say TTS or symbol support, they may wish to have an animation or something to draw your attention to it - or if they have active help they may have a help pop-over.

   These things are distracting, and take focus from content consumption but do so for a positive reason.

   So is distraction always a negative thing?

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