No! I don't want those "dot" custom cursors when I visit your site

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html {
  cursor: none !important;
}

Why would you do that? Why would you remove my cursor when viewing your site? I don’t understand why. At best, I would suggest that you can change visitor’s default cursor when hovering and when click on stuffs, but even then, this will cause accessibility issues in future. Eric Balley said about this better than me

For anyone who is too lazy to read his writing, I will provide the short summary to you.

First, not everyone can clearly see a custom “dot” cursor. You can’t assume everyone has good eyesight to see the tiny “dot” is surfing on the website.

Secondly, not everyone knows your intention behind why you changed the cursor. Maybe it’s a case of experimental exploration, maybe it’s a case that you deem that the default cursor is bad and you have a better idea what it should behave on your website. If that so, I want you to clearly state the reasons behind your design and also offer user option to disable your custom cursor if they want.

“I want my site to be unique! I don’t want to be boring like any other!”

I’m sure that I also want that. Who don’t want to be unique? Who don’t want that someone literally admire your proof of work, either being physical present in reality or digitally present on the Internet? We have Bestfolio and Awward that are showcasing these kinds of design choices much often. But remember, these featured websites often at best is to showcase how people can push their design creativity on the Web further, but not showing how an actual person would interact with your website at all.

Besides my argument above, I can argue that your creativity on the Web doesn’t have to be limit on a single element like a cursor. You can do so many wonderful things on the Web, which is now made easier with AI agents that people learning to use everyday like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and many more.

After all, at its core of design is about how people interact with design and how design interacts with people.

Making the choice that something “is good enough for the majority of my users” makes sweeping assumptions about who is visiting your website or web app and why, and actively discriminates.

Eric Balley

To close off this post, I want you to offer you a video to show how custom cursor hurting ways to view content on website and Inclusive Design Principles so you can make better choice for your website that both benefit your freedom in creative and respect user’s choice.