A recent wave of large-scale technical outages from major cloud providers like AWS and hosting platforms, including the one in question, is fueling widespread concern. Users are connecting these disruptions to the increasing integration of AI in system automation, sparking fears of a potential "AI bubble" and systemic instability that could impact everything from tech infrastructure to financial markets. Beyond the major outages, a positive development is also gaining traction: the platform is eliminating "toasts" (brief, dismissive UI notifications) due to accessibility and usability concerns, a move praised by the UX and accessibility community for improving user experience.
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The paradox of automation says that the more efficient the automated system, the more crucial the human contribution of the operators. Humans are less involved, but their involvement becomes more critical. Lisanne Bainbridge, a cognitive psychologist, identified these issues notably in her widely cited paper "Ironies of Automation."[49] If an automated system has an error, it will multiply that error until it is fixed or shut down. This is where human operators come in.[50] A fatal example of this was Air France Flight 447, where a failure of automation put the pilots into a manual situation they were not prepared for.[51]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:byjjq67p7iau6qufzjmizpbn/bafkreie4ootzzyowpylsxjg7gxsp63iujxh4qceuuxxhwm63yrm2qffa4e@jpeg)
Interesting: GitHub is removing all toasts from their UI due to usability and accessibility issues. I agree they tend to be overused, probably because they’re so easy to implement. There are often better patterns like inline confirmation/errors.
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GitHub no longer uses toasts because of their accessibility and usability issues.
✊🏼 “GitHub no longer uses toasts because of their accessibility and usability issues.”
#UX #a11y
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GitHub no longer uses toasts because of their accessibility and usability issues.
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