![]() There are fantastic closed captioning options and support for assisted listening systems for people who are hard of hearing, and screen reader support and optional audio descriptions that describe what’s happening on-screen (like facial expressions and body language) for those who have impaired vision. There’s also plenty of accessibility features to ensure that everyone can use Netflix. The upside to the heavy curation, though, is a manageable UI that doesn’t scroll horizontally until the end of time, *cough* Stan *cough*. The algorithm behind this is solid but occasionally tends to be a little unimaginative (“Because you watched Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, you might like… Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets!”). Netflix caters this selection to your personal tastes, surfacing content it “thinks” you’ll like and burying stuff you’d likely ignore. To keep the content glut manageable, only a fraction of the library is displayed on your home screen. Hover too long over a selection and a trailer will start playing, which isn’t always ideal, but it’s a minor annoyance at worst. Shows and movies are presented as large thumbnails, and divided into simple categories like “action”, “thriller” and “comedy”. Regardless of what platform you’re accessing Netflix through, the user interface is clean, elegant, and responsive. ![]() As such, it’s had plenty of time to refine that bar, and to this date remains perhaps the most user-friendly streaming service around. As one of the first streaming services ever, Netflix pretty much set the bar for every one of its competitors when it came to user experience and accessibility. ![]()
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