Designing for users with physical or motor disabilities
What to do - and what not to do - when designing for users with physical or motor disabilities.
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Do:
- Make large clickable actions
- Give clickable elements space
- Design for keyboard or speech only use
- Design with mobile and touchscreen in mind
- Provide shortcuts
Don't:
- Demand precision
- Bunch interactions together
- Make dynamic content that requires a lot of mouse movement
- Have short time out windows
- Tire users with lots of typing and scrolling
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