Touch Target and Spacing Deck
Recall practical target-size and spacing checks for accessible touch and pointer interactions.
What is the target-size question to ask in review? Can a real person reliably activate this control without hitting its neighbor? Check the actual hit area, not only the icon's visible pixels. Visual icon size vs. interactive hit area The icon can stay visually compact while the clickable or tappable area expands around it. Do not judge target size from the icon alone. Inspect the interactive bounds and adjacent controls. Stakeholder says: making targets bigger will ruin the dense layout. Making targets bigger will ruin the dense layout. We can expand hit areas without making every icon visually larger, and…
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