In this issue
01 — Tap Target · Cover story
44 Points or Bust
Apple says 44 points. Google says 48dp. WCAG will accept 24 pixels if you beg. Behind the numbers is one physical fact: the average adult fingertip, and the decade of tiny buttons we shipped anyway.
02 — Tap Target
Your Thumb Is the Primary User
Half of all phone use is one-handed, the screens keep growing, and the thumb hasn't gotten any longer. Reachability isn't a nice-to-have — it's the physics your interface lives in.
03 — Tap Target
Turn VoiceOver On and Leave It On
You cannot design what you have never used. One week of screen-reader immersion will teach you more about your app than a quarter of analytics.
04 — Tap Target
Type That Grows
Dynamic Type is the most-used accessibility setting on iOS, and the most commonly broken. If your layout dies at 200%, it was never finished.
05 — Tap Target
Motion Sickness Is a Bug, Not a Preference
Parallax, zooms and springy sheets are delightful until they meet a vestibular disorder. Reduce Motion is not a request to make your app boring — it's a request to stop making people ill.
06 — Tap Target
"I Don't Test With Screen Readers. I Live Here."
Amara Osei is a senior mobile engineer who has been blind since twelve — she builds the interfaces she can't see, and reviews yours faster than you can. A conversation about VoiceOver at 700 words a minute, the myth of the accessibility sprint, and what teams get wrong on day one.
07 — Tap Target
The Ship-It Checklist
Ten checks before any mobile release. Print it, tape it to the wall, block the merge.
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