As you may know I have suffered from a vestibular disorder (chronic imbalance/vertigo) for 6 years. I am noticing websites are becoming more animated and motion and movement are becoming dominant. I struggle viewing certain websites that are filled with motion/movement because of my vestibular condition.
Derek Featherstone, accessibility expert, is kind enough to look into a possible solution. I have tried to disable JavaScript and disable images but neither option worked. Most websites became unusable. Derek asked me to provide 10 websites that give me trouble. I wanted to give the vestibular community an opportunity to express what websites are bothersome to them when viewing the web. However, I started to think there are conditions outside vestibular disorders where movement and motion on a website could be bothersome. Would motion and movement on websites be an issue for the Dystonia community, Ataxia community, etc? My friend AKA my brother Blake Watson doctored up the code on a beautiful Automattic theme so we could have the following site.
I would hate to see the web continue to move forward and we get to a place where viewing websites is unbearable for a group of users. I am hoping this site will give a voice to the vestibular community and other disorders that deal with issues of movement/motion when using the web. I also hope it will give designers and developers a little insight into how certain communities are experiencing the websites they create.
Much love,
Marissa
Thank you for posting this. We web developers need to keep accessibility and usability concerns in mind when developing web sites.
Thank you John for reading this post. I appreciate your thoughtful comments.
Much love,
Marissa
Give yourself some credit for the actual creation of the site. I helped, but I wrote not a line of code. That was all you!
hehehehe! Let’s be fair, you did tell me exactly what code to write! I would say I was great at transcription:)
Much love,
Marissa