Re: Parallax and vestibular disorders

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?

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On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
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> This might have been covered somewhere (COGA?), but I couldn’t find it if
> it has.
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> Has anyone considered new criteria for people with vestibular type issues?
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> It isn’t something I’m expert on, but there’s a good overview here:
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> http://alistapart.com/article/designing-safer-web-animation-for-motion-sensitivity
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> 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.
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> That can trigger disorientation, nausea and/or loss of balance. When iOS 7
> came out quite a lot of people reported motion sickness [1].
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> 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.)
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> 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).
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> As an example (if you don’t have any disorder) try scrolling this page:
> http://www.world-of-swiss.com/en
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> 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.
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> Off the top of my head an SC could be something like:
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> 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?)
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> I think it needs narrowing down, but I wanted to see if it is worth
> proposing or if someone already had?
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> Kind regards,
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> -Alastair
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> 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.
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> Alastair Campbell
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