Getting rid of scroll bars was something that the guys with infinity scarves stuck us with, right around the time they started doing 200-weight fonts, and removing all the standard web components we had standardized on since the early 90s. I understand designers need freedom, but a lot of the changes in the last 10-15 years have been focused on "pretty" because the tech finally allowed things to be pretty. I hope the pendulum will start swing back towards usability.
Apple's been on a mission to kill the scroll bar since 2015 or so. Others followed suit. (Here's an article from 2016 explaining how to re-enable scroll bars for all the reasons people stated in this post https://www.howtogeek.com/207749/how-to-enable-scroll-bars-i... )
Apple's been on a mission to kill the scroll bar since 2015 or so. Others followed suit. (Here's an article from 2016 explaining how to re-enable scroll bars for all the reasons people stated in this post https://www.howtogeek.com/207749/how-to-enable-scroll-bars-i... )
Hiding scroll bars is a violation of the "Don't Make Me Think" convention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Make_Me_Think
Shame the browsers aren't bound by the same rules for the content they are designed to show.
New WCAG 2.2 says:
AAA Compliance "The size of the target for pointer inputs is at least 44 by 44 CSS pixels..."
AA Compliance "The size of the target for pointer inputs is at least 24 by 24 CSS pixels..."