Fix · Moderate · should fix soon
How to fix: small touch targets
Mobile users miss-tap small icons. Motor accessibility requires comfortable hit areas.
- WCAG references
- 2.5.5, 2.5.8
- Severity
- Moderate
What it looks like in the wild
Mobile users miss-tap small icons.
The screen-reader user, keyboard user, or low-vision user encountering this issue does not get an error message. The page just stops working for them. Which is why this kind of bug rarely shows up in your error tracker; it shows up in support tickets, lawsuits, and abandoned conversions.
Why it fails WCAG
Motor accessibility requires comfortable hit areas.
Map this back to 2.5.5, 2.5.8 when you log the bug. Auditors and procurement teams expect that mapping; "broken" is not enough context.
The wrong pattern (avoid)
.icon-btn { width: 16px; height: 16px; }The right pattern (copy this)
.icon-btn { width: 44px; height: 44px; padding: 12px; }Notes from real audits
WCAG 2.2 added 2.5.8 Target Size (Minimum) at 24×24 (Level AA).
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