Do people have opinions on dynamic "flash" notification things on web pages, where you get a little warning/info/etc box at the top of the page somewhere that you have to click to dismiss? Especially as far as #UX / #a11y #accessibility?
I have this as part of #Elixir#Phoenix but I'm thinking of throwing it in the trash.
Alternatives to them toast-like patterns tend to be much simpler to implement.
@aardrian put together a good summary of the complexities https://adrianroselli.com/2020/01/defining-toast-messages.html
It should definitely not be used as a method to show an error message as result of user interaction, because the message is disconnected to the user’s actions. It does not support screen readers because it can’t point to the errored field id. For system wide error messages it can have its place, such as connection errors.
Success messages like “welcome back” and “resource created” are redundant and lead to alert fatigue.
It is possible to render the flash message on the page, instead of using the flash/growl UI, which I’ve done on a LiveView user login form.
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