Wednesday 11 March 2015

Microsoft W@*43r5.

I had the misfortune of experiencing the f*#@ing shitty design of Windows 8.1 this week :(.



On first look Windows 8.1 seemed rather nice. Filled with potential.



Until you accidently f&$5ing enable (by some mystical shortcut action of swiping thats unrepeatable in the reverse to disable) Windows Narrator (if you have a tablet and are not sight impaired, I highly recommend you DISABLE THIS EVIL APP IMMEDIATELY).



Once Narrator is enabled, all the normal actions you might of taken to interact with the tablet are magically no longer available. You can't swipe, you can't single tap (you can tap, THEN have it rant at you, THEN you have to DOUBLE TAP to click even a single control! Can you imagine how painful it becomes to interact with the tablet? Let me tell you, I ended up force powering off the damn thing and my first action on reboot will be to find and permanently disable narrator).



Here are some ways to remove this piece of awful design work:



http://www.dzhang.com/blog/2012/12/19/disabling-win-enter-narrator-hotkey-in-windows-8
http://superuser.com/questions/573728/how-do-i-disable-narrator-forever
http://superuser.com/questions/712296/narrator-keeps-turning-on-on-login-screen



Yes, I'm f%#ked off... yes, I'm over reacting LOL (and its undoing the annoyance caused by this stupid ass software design. Tools for the visually impaired should not be impairing the visually enabled [which is what Narrator does] if Narrator was just what it should be reading out what your over or clicking on it wouldn't be an issue, I might even turn it on for a pleasant audio experience. What it shouldn't do is disable the existing UI.



I feel bad twice for the visually impaired now. Once because they can't see, and twice because they are forced to use such a shitty Windows experience.