Re: Distractions - always negative?

Ok - this is interesting stuff ;)

How should a positive distraction work? - say if you do have a help pop up,
or you do have a paywall or something else that *must* be there. What is
the best possible user experience? Should we prefer one method over
another, or ????

There is ordering - distraction in the middle of something is worse than a
notification as a part of starting something - say a form or similar. There
is the form of the distraction - and how easy it is to close/banish
forever/pay or whatever, for starters.

Thanks, T

On 1 May 2015 at 09:12, EA Draffan <ead@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

>  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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> *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?
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> Hi Tony,
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> You raise a very valid point.
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> 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
> *Subject:* Distractions - always negative?
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> Hi All,
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>    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.
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>    These things are distracting, and take focus from content consumption
> but do so for a positive reason.
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>    So is distraction always a negative thing?
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