Script 7: Large Links, Buttons, and Controls

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0 [INTRO MUSIC] [TITLE] Web Accessibility Perspectives - Large Links, Buttons, and Controls [before narration:] Web accessibility perspectives
1 Trying to hit a small target requires lots of effort. Show someone seemingly sat on a chair at home trying to thread a needle, they repeatedly miss. [after narration:] A woman tries to thread a needle but misses.
2 Many websites and applications try to thread the needle. Show the same person (on a sewing website on a tablet?) try to tap a tiny tick and not managing to tap the icon because it is so small – they react as they did with the needle. [after narration:] The woman fails to tap small links on a website.
4 But on the web we can make areas for clicking and tapping larger and easier to use. The area surrounding the tick becomes larger and the user manages to tap it now more easily. [after narration:] The links become larger in area, and the woman now easily taps them.
5 Which is handy on mobile devices, especially when we might be moving around at the time. Person grabs the tablet and gets up, continuing to use the website while moving around. [after narration:] The woman is using a tablet while preparing a coffee.
6 Which is critical for people with reduced dexterity. Cut to a person working on a computer and has a tremor meaning the cursor moves a lot.
They are not able to use the website with the small tick but then successfully click it when it is enlarged.
[after narration:] Another woman with a hand tremor is unable to navigate precisely with the mouse, and unable to click small buttons on a website.
7 Web accessibility: essential for some, useful for all. (Continuation of previous scene) [after narration:] The buttons become larger and the woman with tremor is now able to click them.
8 Visit w3.org/WAI/perspectives for more information on large links, buttons, and controls. [WEB ADDRESS (w3.org/WAI/perspectives); W3C AND WAI LOGOS; COPYRIGHT NOTICE] W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, copyright 2016