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Why GitHub's War on Toasts Is Bad News for Accessibility

https://medium.com/offmessageorg/why-githubs-war-on-toasts-is-bad-news-for-accessibility-a88ddbad43b7
5•bochoh•2mo ago

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Daedren•2mo ago
It's a member-only story, so I can only read the first few paragraphs.

Toasts are indeed a problem because they can disappear without the user reading (or listening if on screen readers) to its feedback. So while I don't know what suggestions the author has, I find it hard to imagine it can be fixed in a way that you'd still call it a toast and not something else.

Of course, removing all toasts and making all feedback actionable until they disappear will instead create a lot of friction, it's not an easy UX problem.