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

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From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: Dec 21, 2016 6:30AM

I think the best approach is to provide the client with information and let them decide how they want to proceed.

You could just tell them that you experienced motion sickness from the transition. Another option is to try out the transition on other people or propose they try it out on a wider potential audience before they start incorporating the transition into their design more widely. A last option I can think of is to do some research on visually induced motion sickness and perhaps something in that research is something you can explain to the client to give them more information.

I am totally blind myself so I have never experienced this. However, I do have family and friends who have complained in the past about visually induced motion sickness--typically after watching 3D films or playing video games. That makes me think that this kind of effect is likely significant enough that someone somewhere might have written about the causes. If you can find that, it might help you explain why the transition could cause motion sickness to other people as well--and possibly provide solutions for how to avoid that effect.