Button Too Small to Tap

The "confirm" button was nine pixels of good intentions.

Angela's hands shake — a tremor she has had for years, managed fine, part of her life. She tapped. Hit the cancel link beside it. Tapped again. Missed again. On the third try she put the phone down and called her daughter to finish a two-minute task.

Her hands were not the problem. The target was.

Touch targets need room: at least 24 by 24 pixels by the standard, 44 or more if you want it to feel easy. Big targets are not training wheels. They are how everybody taps accurately — on a bus, with gloves, with a tremor, with one hand busy.

Build the button for the hand that shakes, and it works for every hand.

💡 The scenario I shared is a fictionalized composite informed by patterns I've seen firsthand. The people are fictional; the accessibility barriers are real.

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