I occasionally build websites. I had one client who needed her whole website redone. The old site was very simple and not very visually appealing. I created a site that looked great and had all her content displayed attractively.
One thing that should be understood is this client has limited vision and uses a screen reader.
Client: my friends say it looks good but when I go on it I see a combo box. I don’t want that combo box.
Me: What do you mean by combo box?
Client: The combo box. It’s right there! I don’t like it.
I did some research and found that this was her screen reader’s name for a drop-down menu. It came up whenever that particular theme had to be shrunk down to a 640 by 480 screen size.
Client: Get rid of it.
Me: Honestly, I’m not sure how to remove that, but it shouldn’t be a problem because no one is going to see this drop-down menu unless they use the screen resolution you do, which is VERY uncommon these days.
Client: But I see it, and I hate it. Get rid of it.
Since she wouldn’t be moved, I found a theme that didn’t look nearly as nice, but didn’t create a drop-down menu for the main topics when it resized which got rid of the “combo box.”
She was about to approve the site but had another complaint.
Client: I don’t want the site to say index. Why does it say index? It’s a website. I want it to say website.
Me: (thinking it was her screen reader again) Where do you see that?
Client: At the top.
After some back and forth, I figured out she meant the URL.
Me: That’s the way the internet is structured. The main page on a site will often have a URL ending in “index.” That’s perfectly normal.
Client: I don’t want it to say index. It needs to say website.
So now her site address says “http://clientsitenamehere/website.”
when your girlfriend knocks equivalent exchange flat on its ass because she loves you so much she wants to give a lot more than half of her life to you
when your boyfriend proposes(!!!!) to you with no warning whatsoever and you expose urself with how much you love him back and you gotta make some shit up to look less whipped
