{"id":13466,"date":"2016-02-09T12:03:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T17:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13466"},"modified":"2016-02-09T13:23:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T18:23:28","slug":"el-capitan-and-tvos-criticized-by-vestibular-disorder-sufferer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/09\/el-capitan-and-tvos-criticized-by-vestibular-disorder-sufferer\/","title":{"rendered":"El Capitan and tvOS Criticized by Vestibular Disorder Sufferer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reverttosaved.com\/2016\/02\/04\/os-x-el-capitan-and-tvos-still-a-bag-of-hurt-for-people-with-motion-sickness-and-other-vestibular-disorders\/\">Craig Grannell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/reverttosaved.com\/2016\/02\/04\/os-x-el-capitan-and-tvos-still-a-bag-of-hurt-for-people-with-motion-sickness-and-other-vestibular-disorders\/\"><p>iOS at least helped users, in providing a Reduce Motion option in the Accessibility section within Settings. Within six months, most of the worst animations were possible to replace with non-aggressive crossfades, much to the relief of vestibular disorder sufferers worldwide. But we&rsquo;ve seen no such progress on OS X, and tvOS recently appeared with a &lsquo;Reduce Motion&rsquo; setting so ineffective that it may as well have played a little sniggering noise when activated.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>El Capitan kills the one remaining workaround I had that enabled me to safely use full-screen apps. System Integrity Protection, while essential to the security of the Mac, more or less kills off applications that inject code into OS X. <a href=\"http:\/\/totalspaces.binaryage.com\">TotalSpaces2<\/a> is one of them. The app was designed to manage desktops in a manner akin to those in OS X 10.6, but, importantly, included settings to customise transitions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/16248#comments\">Adam C. Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/16248#comments\">\n<p>Although it&rsquo;s impossible to know what percent of the population suffers from vestibular disorders, estimates range from 5 to 35 percent, meaning that there could be many millions of people out there who endure some level of discomfort due to unnecessary animations and effects. We&rsquo;d like to see Apple extend its accessibility work in iOS to its other operating systems (including watchOS, which Grannell doesn&rsquo;t discuss).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I don&rsquo;t have a vestibular disorder, but I use Reduce Motion and Reduce Transparency wherever possible.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Grannell: iOS at least helped users, in providing a Reduce Motion option in the Accessibility section within Settings. Within six months, most of the worst animations were possible to replace with non-aggressive crossfades, much to the relief of vestibular disorder sufferers worldwide. But we&rsquo;ve seen no such progress on OS X, and tvOS recently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[930,615,1244,31,1137,30,1199,1235],"class_list":["post-13466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-accessibility","tag-apple-tv","tag-haxie","tag-ios","tag-ios-9","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-11","tag-system-integrity-protection"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13469,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466\/revisions\/13469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}