My contrast checker app lied to me about a logo and I paid the price

I work on websites in Austin and last week I tried something that backfired bad. I had this idea to make my navigation links bigger and easier to tap for people with motor issues. So I set the clickable area to like 60 pixels tall even though the text was small. Sounded great in my head. But then I showed it to a tester who uses a screen reader and they said the spacing between links was reading as gaps and confusing the flow. The screen reader kept jumping around and saying link then blank space then link again. I had to scrap the whole layout and go back to standard spacing with just a bigger font instead. The weird lesson was that making something bigger physically doesn't always mean better for assistive tech. Anyone else run into a fix that actually made things worse for a different group of users?

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danieljenkins4h ago

Did you end up keeping the bigger font at least?