My laptop boots up. I want to give my girlfriend her favorite shoes for her birthday, but unfortunately they are sold out in stores. Fortunately, I know where the browser icon is by heart. I just have to point to it with the mouse pointer. But where is it actually? I move the mouse and lo and behold, something moves on the right edge of the screen. A big, fat, yellow mouse pointer. But as soon as I look at it, it has disappeared. Strange? No, not really, because there's a hole in the middle of my field of vision, a blind spot. So I wiggle the mouse a little again and squint slightly past the yellow outline of the mouse pointer. Aim well and it slowly comes close to the browser icon. On the third attempt, it works with a well-timed double-click. The first hurdle has been overcome. The Internet has been reached. From now on, this drama is repeated with every further mouse click, which is why I won't go into it any further now.
Okay, the browser search bar is easy to find. Enter the model and shoe size and off you go. There are plenty of offers, so I take a look at a few. I zoom in with Ctrl and the mouse wheel. My face literally crawls into the screen . From the outside, I look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame, so it's only a matter of time before my back speaks up, because I'm going to stay in this position until my task is complete. I see pictures, prices and links to websites. There are definitely shoes to be seen. The model is right, I think, but I have to take a small leap of faith with the color. Could be black and white, or some other combination of a dark and a light color. I can't see it exactly. I don't know exactly which store sells the shoe either. The blue color of the link just doesn't contrast well with the light background.
At least the prices are easy to see, so I simply opt for the cheapest price. When I look at the website, I get the feeling that maybe some people just don't want everyone to be able to read everything. The background is partly white, which is standard. But then there's also grey and beige, with fine grey or maybe even black lettering in an estimated font size of 10. I have to adjust the zoom so that only two or three words fit on the screen so that I can make out anything at all. It has something of a hidden object gameas I wander across the screen to see all the options and information.
After a good quarter of an hour, I took a close look at the whole page and hopefully set everything up correctly. So I put it in the shopping cart. It's very easy to find, by the way, large and black in the middle of the bright rest of the page. Fortunately, the shopping cart itself is always at the top right, otherwise you'd have to spend ages searching again. My neck is really happy about that. Filling in the order data is not a problem in itself, as the tab key always centers the field that is currently being filled in.
There is just one last, unfortunately very big hurdle. The captcha that is supposed to determine whether I am a robot. I always thought I was made of flesh and blood, but I still keep failing because of the illegible numbers and letters. If it doesn't work on the twentieth attempt, I might ask someone for help. But then I've actually managed it. Now I'm having physiotherapy prescribed for my neck and back.
