Interactions

Certain animations can be distracting and cause dizziness, nausea, headaches, and seizures in people with vestibular and photosensitivity disorders.

A parallax effect is a design trend where background elements move at different speeds than foreground elements while scrolling. This type of motion is harmful to people with vestibular disorders and should be avoided or used with extreme caution and restraint.

Scrolljacking is when a website overrides expected up/down scrolling patterns on a page. Scrolljacking can make it difficult to navigate a website, especially for people using assistive technologies.

A common web pattern is to animate the transition to an anchor link within a page. This animation can be harmful to people who are sensitive to motion.