Background: liquid glass, the newest UI styles adopted by apple across its products, is hated by many users (seen on reddit, news articles from established medias, personal blogs), on the other hand there are also people saying that it is "pretty".
Is it legally possible to force apple to provide an alternative to Liquid Glass (e.g. keep a version of Mac OS 15) based on the ground that it causes accessibility issues? (e.g. readability caused by transparency, fatigue caused by animation, loss of productivity and bad mood caused by layered menus -> results of worse mental health)
There are already "reduce motion", and "reduced transparency", and "reduce motion" in the "accessibility" setting, so I suppose there maybe some regulations on these kind things, and this gives some legal ground.
For the company/individual that fights for an alternative version of liquid glass, it will have the following to gain:
- Been perceived as a company/individual that has taste, cares about product quality, craftsmanship by the current liquid glass haters. (Think of this as an advertisement)
- EU senators/representatives: for me I think this is more meaningful than the USB-C situation and the bottle cap case. The damage (if any) caused by the charging cable and bottle cap is tangible, but the irritation and loss of productivity and loss of mental health is not that tangible, fighting apple raises the awareness of such issues, showing EU is indeed an leader in this area.