From the course: Accessibility for Web Design
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Target sizes
From the course: Accessibility for Web Design
Target sizes
- You've likely experienced this before. You try to touch or tap something on your phone, and you miss. Think radio button or a checkbox. They're both pretty small targets. Or how about a link or a button that submits a form? How about that image carousel that includes little dots to allow you to choose an item in the carousel? They're all too small. And when you tap, you miss and don't activate anything. Or maybe they're too close together and you hit the wrong one. You end up zooming the interface to be able to have a big enough target to tap, or so that the interface is big enough so that you can make sure you hit the right link. It's easy enough to fix. Make things a little bigger and give them some breathing room. Take a look at this podcast search results page. In this case, there's 74 search results. So there's some results pagination at the bottom. Those will already be difficult for Maxine to tap. Her…
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