Seriously, the amount of times this happened to me is astounding.
Pull up a YouTube video. Adjust the volume at the start. After playing for a while, I want to skip forward 5 seconds, so I press the right arrow. The video does not skip forward, so I press it again. I press it again, and in 4 seconds, I reach maxiumum volume.
Only at this point do I realize that, ah, this is part where YouTube interprets my right arrow as volume adjustment again, and I have to click on the play button or on the video itself to pause and play again, and only then will the right (and left) arrows mean what I think they mean.
I have never, ever - EVER wanted to use right arrow as volume up and left arrow as volume down for a YouTube video. not a single time in (almost) 20 years! And it does not even make sense from a usability standpoint, since the up and down arrows are already adjusting the volume up and down at all times, regardless of which part of the player is “active” (it should always be the play button. Fucking always).
The solution would be so simple, it hurts. Have the left and right arrows always mean 5 seconds backwards and forwards, as the up and down arrows already mean volume up and down. There is absolutely no need to switch the action of the left and right arrow, depending on if you clicked on the volume adjustment first. Oh well, chalk it up to “things I will never understand”.
You seem to be under the impression that interface controls of any sort are there to maximise your ease of use. This is very much not the case, the controls are designed by someone that has never used the interface before, never will use it and has no experience in using any interface even vaguely like it. Your role in the endeavour is to try to memorise the arse backwards design and get by as best you can.
It was designed to follow accessibility rules and not “ease of use”.
Hopefully you will never need such features because once you do, you realize most websites are designed without taking into account any accessibility and you are fighting it to do anything.
Some things may become annoying for the average user but they are a god send for people that need it.
Good points… But it’s even more bizarre, if you think about it: apparently the only person to never have used the YouTube player, is… the guy who designed it? What the…? 🫤
Welcome to the world. I hope you enjoy your stay, but I doubt it.
Doing your part to pointlessly spread gloom I see
And it maximizes engagement measures…