Accessibility
Creating Accessible Tooltips and Hover Effects
This prompt helps teams design accessible tooltips and hover effects, ensuring that additional information is accessible to users with disabilities. It emphasizes clear triggers, keyboard operability, and compatibility with assistive technologies.
Responsible:
Product Design
Accountable, Informed or Consulted:
Design, Product, Engineering
THE PREP
Creating effective prompts involves tailoring them with detailed, relevant information and uploading documents that provide the best context. Prompts act as a framework to guide the response, but specificity and customization ensure the most accurate and helpful results. Use these prep tips to get the most out of this prompt:
Identify the elements that require tooltips or hover effects.
Review current tooltip designs for accessibility gaps.
Analyze user feedback on tooltip usability and effectiveness.
THE PROMPT
Help design accessible tooltips and hover effects for [specific feature or product]. Ensure inclusivity and usability by focusing on:
Trigger Accessibility: Ensuring tooltips are triggered by both mouse hover and keyboard focus.
Content Clarity: Keeping tooltip content concise and directly relevant to the associated element.
Screen Reader Compatibility: Adding ARIA roles and descriptions to ensure tooltip content is read by assistive devices.
Dismissal Options: Allowing users to dismiss tooltips easily using the Escape key or by moving focus away.
Timing and Visibility: Ensuring tooltips remain visible long enough for users to read and interact with them.
Provide specific recommendations for improving accessibility in tooltips and hover effects. If additional details about the target audience or usage scenarios are needed, ask clarifying questions to refine the suggestions.
Bonus Add-On Prompts
Propose accessible tooltip designs for mobile and touch devices.
Suggest timing rules to ensure tooltips are neither too quick to disappear nor too intrusive.
Highlight ways to integrate tooltips seamlessly with screen reader workflows.
Use AI responsibly by verifying its outputs, as it may occasionally generate inaccurate or incomplete information. Treat AI as a tool to support your decision-making, ensuring human oversight and professional judgment for critical or sensitive use cases.
SUGGESTIONS TO IMPROVE
Focus on tooltips for specific use cases, such as error explanations or feature tutorials.
Include alternatives to tooltips for devices that don’t support hover, like touchscreens.
Highlight design strategies for responsive tooltips on small screens.
Tailor recommendations for industry-specific use cases, such as medical or financial tools.
Add guidelines for testing tooltips with assistive technologies.
WHEN TO USE
During the design phase for tooltips or hover effects in a product.
To address accessibility gaps in existing tooltips or interactive elements.
When preparing for compliance with accessibility standards.
WHEN NOT TO USE
If tooltips or hover effects are not part of the product design.
When focusing on static UI elements without interactivity.