Re: Distractions - always negative?

Hi All,

I've been kicking this around some more...I think there's more here - a
broader question. How should a user's attention be drawn to something
effectively? There are two sides to distraction - what you should *not* do,
and what you *should* do in it's place. It is often a requirement/need to
draw attention. This is not always commercially driven. Cookie
notifications, legal requirements, location restrictions, copyright notices
etc. We cannot be abstinence only here, it's just not realistic IMO.

 With emphasis in text we know that the most effective way is to bold the
text as italics, underline and all caps all have issues. Bold does too, but
less so.

 Which brings back the question - how does someone effectively draw
attention, with minimal impact on those with Cognitive challenges? At the
end of it all we need to give developers recommendations they can follow.

  I am thinking along the lines of front loading - all necessary messages
at the start of a process. "You are about to start filling in a form XY for
ZY, would you like live help, or extra time or XXXXXXX" rather than an
overlay after 5 minutes. Might be a good starting point for discussion.

T



On 1 May 2015 at 09:47, Anthony Doran <t.doran@texthelp.com> wrote:

> 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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>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> 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
>> *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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