Parallax design and usability

Hi @b3rsus, in short I’d say the site looks cool… (if it works). However if you take into account accessibility the score would not be so high… as others have mentioned there are a few technical issues that have to do with usability and accessibility e.g. the site does not work at all without JavaScript enabled and mobile devices seem to be suffering the heavy load and parallax effect. Parallax websites tend to load all at once and feature very large images, which if not handled for mobile devices there are going to be some serious performance issues…

You could ignore this feedback and think anyway most sites nowadays do not work with JavaScript disabled… and you don’t care about mobile users… this is very bad thinking as there are some very important reasons why you would want to make your site as accessible as possible, mainly increase your reach… but also ease development… JavaScript is a brittle thing and if while someone is developing a website (that completely relies in JavaScript) something fails… they will be left with a black screen and no accessibility at all, which can be quite frustrating if you are a developer, or even more if your’e paying that developer.

Unfortunately I see a current trend with modern websites that seem to absolutely ignore the most basic best practices in web development that have been established for the last couple of decades like progressive enhancement… If you want good feedback for your website you should probably look somewhere else as in here there are a lot of old school folk that is well aware of those best practices… which unfortunately your site does not follow…

In short I’d say it is better to look alright to 80% of the visitors than to look super cool to 15% and none at all to the other 85%

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