Re: Parallax and vestibular disorders

Greg Tarnoff may me a good person to consult:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhnIZh0xwk0
http://simplyaccessible.com/article/animations/
http://simplyaccessible.com/article/balance-awareness/

His site:
http://tarnoff.info/

Kindest Regards,
Laura

On 7/27/16, Thad C <inclusivethinking@gmail.com> wrote:
> >From my perspective this is an important topic. The following organization
> provides information and advocacy.
>
> http://vestibular.org/
>
> I would be interested in joining their community.
>
> Best,
> Thaddeus
> On Jul 27, 2016 9:58 AM, "David MacDonald" <david100@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>> I think it's worth exploring... We would want to get out of the
>> theoretical possibility of it being a problem into real world problems
>> that
>> actual users are having ... the article dates back to iOs 7 and a cursory
>> reading of it seemed that the author was saying dizziness is a
>> possibility
>> but again was a theoretical possibility, not an outcry from users.
>>
>> I've heard it is a problem for some users, but have never met a user
>> who's
>> really had serious problems from it... but the next step would be to talk
>> to some users, preferably a user group representing them, to gather more
>> data on the real world problems they have.
>>
>> For our photo epileptic SC in about 2003, we had a presentation at the
>> Los
>> Angeles face to face by an organization in England that came to us with
>> the
>> proposal. I would hope for something similar here so we are talking to
>> people who are really serious about the issue.
>>
>> Does anyone know of such a user group or place to talk to users?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David MacDonald
>>
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>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Alastair Campbell
>> <acampbell@nomensa.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This might have been covered somewhere (COGA?), but I couldn’t find it
>>> if
>>> it has.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Has anyone considered new criteria for people with vestibular type
>>> issues?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It isn’t something I’m expert on, but there’s a good overview here:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://alistapart.com/article/designing-safer-web-animation-for-motion-sensitivity
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The issue that doesn’t seem to be covered is when you scroll a page
>>> (usually vertically, but sometimes horizontally) and things move at
>>> different speeds. E.g. the background moves more slowly than the
>>> foreground
>>> to give an impression of depth/distance.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> That can trigger disorientation, nausea and/or loss of balance. When iOS
>>> 7 came out quite a lot of people reported motion sickness [1].
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It is in the same area as 2.2.2 (Pause, Stop, Hide) but that doesn’t
>>> cover a scrolling based mechanism. (It does mention scrolling, but I
>>> read
>>> that as something that scrolls on its own, not that the animation
>>> happens
>>> whilst the user scrolls the page.)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You might argue the user is in control, but if they have to scroll to
>>> use
>>> it, they cannot use it (see the examples in the alistapart article
>>> above).
>>>
>>> As an example (if you don’t have any disorder) try scrolling this page:
>>> http://www.world-of-swiss.com/en
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You don’t have to use that mechanism, but if you do, whoosh! I’ve
>>> brought
>>> that example up for magnification users before, but it must be terrible
>>> for
>>> people with vestibular issues.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Off the top of my head an SC could be something like:
>>>
>>> 2.x.x User initiated animation:  For animation triggered by a user
>>> action
>>> (such as scrolling) there is a mechanism for the user to pause, stop or
>>> hide the animation whilst still performing the same action. (Level AA?)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I think it needs narrowing down, but I wanted to see if it is worth
>>> proposing or if someone already had?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -Alastair
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 1] A poll at http://www.imore.com/ios-7-and-motion-sickness-poll not
>>> scientific by any means but that’s quite a lot of people reporting an
>>> issue.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Alastair Campbell
>>>
>>>
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>>
>


-- 
Laura L. Carlson

Received on Wednesday, 27 July 2016 17:23:46 UTC