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Re: Transitions causing motion sickness - WCAG failure and how to handle?

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From: JP Jamous
Date: Dec 21, 2016 6:23AM

I am not sure who is the audience of this site or app. That should be #1. Maybe the intended audience like that kind of stuff.

As far as universal design, this is bad UX for sure. My wife who is fully sighted and in her early thirties cannot see something like that. It would make her dizzy. As people age, their eyes would want to see simpler UIs because the nerves of the eye wear out and the brain functions slow. Those are typical symptoms of aging.

Your client needs to know this and the decision at the end is left to the client since the client pays the bill. If the client gets negatively impacted by this design because of stubbornness, then you would have done your job.

I faced this as a business owner that used to develop web sites. The first question I used to ask, Who is your primary audience? Do you know that something such as this feature may impact the amount of visitors to the site?

Some customers used to listen and take my recommendations, but others were hard headed and I have seen some that got hurt by that stubbornness.