Watching a customer with low vision use our checkout changed my priorities
Last week we did usability sessions for the new checkout, and one participant, a retired teacher, uses her phone with the text size at maximum and display zoom on. I almost didn't include her because "she is not our typical user". I am very happy I did. In 20 minutes she couldn't finish the purchase. Things we saw: Our sticky "Pay now" bar at the bottom grew with the big text until it covered almost half of the…