Nic
@nicm42.me.uk
Front End Developer. I like to post terrible UX and a11y I find on websites.
I've been attempting to read text on my county library's website and wondering why it's so tiny. Turns out it's been hard coded to be 15px, but on my computer 18px is a readable size. I feel like not using px for font sizing has been pretty basic for years, why is it so hard? #ux
November 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I've been attempting to read text on my county library's website and wondering why it's so tiny. Turns out it's been hard coded to be 15px, but on my computer 18px is a readable size. I feel like not using px for font sizing has been pretty basic for years, why is it so hard? #ux
I'd like to be able to use this website, but there's an overlay over the whole thing, so I can't click on anything, not even the cookie preferences. #ux
September 20, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I'd like to be able to use this website, but there's an overlay over the whole thing, so I can't click on anything, not even the cookie preferences. #ux
But my name only has three letters.
August 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
But my name only has three letters.
Thanks, US Open app for making the worst cookie popup even harder to scroll through and turn everything off (the harder places make it to decline the cookies the more determined I am to decline them). #ux
August 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Thanks, US Open app for making the worst cookie popup even harder to scroll through and turn everything off (the harder places make it to decline the cookies the more determined I am to decline them). #ux
PayPal's UX for sending money is so awful it's taken me days to discover, by accident, how to put the amount in. I didn't even realise it was an input and when I did I couldn't work out how to delete the amount already in there. Turns out you just type.
July 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
PayPal's UX for sending money is so awful it's taken me days to discover, by accident, how to put the amount in. I didn't even realise it was an input and when I did I couldn't work out how to delete the amount already in there. Turns out you just type.
The text on that button is not quite right
May 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The text on that button is not quite right
Massive fail on this site: although I have reduced motion turned on, the ticker keeps moving. And it moves so fast I can't even read what it says! The only way I know that it says the same thing is because it was still while the page loaded. Which begs the question, why does it need to move? #a11y
April 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Massive fail on this site: although I have reduced motion turned on, the ticker keeps moving. And it moves so fast I can't even read what it says! The only way I know that it says the same thing is because it was still while the page loaded. Which begs the question, why does it need to move? #a11y
I did want to get to these menu items, but I don't know how to (I tried the keyboard, but there were no focus states and the menu never seemed to open at any point)
March 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I did want to get to these menu items, but I don't know how to (I tried the keyboard, but there were no focus states and the menu never seemed to open at any point)
It’s a good thing I didn’t want to see too much of this screen.
February 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
It’s a good thing I didn’t want to see too much of this screen.
There is a link after this text that says "Click here to login" it's just in a very dark colour on black.
January 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
There is a link after this text that says "Click here to login" it's just in a very dark colour on black.
But you told me to read the meter so my next bill will not be estimated!
January 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
But you told me to read the meter so my next bill will not be estimated!
I assume there are some buttons so I can close this pop-up and actually use the site, but I can’t scroll to them
January 8, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I assume there are some buttons so I can close this pop-up and actually use the site, but I can’t scroll to them
It’s fine, I didn’t need to read the ends of the words on the right of the screen.
December 24, 2024 at 6:59 AM
It’s fine, I didn’t need to read the ends of the words on the right of the screen.
Entering my meter reading and I think I'm focused on the submit button, but there's no visual way to tell. And this site is an improvement over the older one where you couldn't navigate with the keyboard at all...
December 22, 2024 at 10:58 AM
Entering my meter reading and I think I'm focused on the submit button, but there's no visual way to tell. And this site is an improvement over the older one where you couldn't navigate with the keyboard at all...
It seems like every time I have to do something with done third party code I find they’ve used floats for layout (or worse, floats in a table!). Why are people still using float’s for layouts in 2024 and get away with selling it? #css
December 17, 2024 at 12:30 PM
It seems like every time I have to do something with done third party code I find they’ve used floats for layout (or worse, floats in a table!). Why are people still using float’s for layouts in 2024 and get away with selling it? #css
I imagine the buttons to save my cookie settings are below the checkboxes. But I can only scroll the page, not the cookie pop-up.
December 12, 2024 at 10:25 AM
I imagine the buttons to save my cookie settings are below the checkboxes. But I can only scroll the page, not the cookie pop-up.
I know companies want me to accept cookies (which I never will) but making the non-accept buttons unreadable is taking the piss.
December 8, 2024 at 8:44 PM
I know companies want me to accept cookies (which I never will) but making the non-accept buttons unreadable is taking the piss.