Advice and guides | Sovereign Housing

Support with the cost of living | Sovereign Housing

Winter tips, advice and support | Sovereign Housing

Repairs information | SNG

Thriving communities | Sovereign Housing

Key worker accommodation | Sovereign Housing

Early Careers | Sovereign Housing

About us

Our benefits | Sovereign Housing

Our research | Sovereign Housing

All interactive components on a page, such as buttons or fields, should ideally be large enough 
to be easily used by people with motor impairments. 

This ensures people with motor impairments can easily click or tap on the element.

The recommended size is 44 x 44 CSS pixels, with some exceptions:

* **Equivalent available** - the functionality provided by
  the control is available elsewhere, and large enough, on the same page.
* **Inline text** - the control appears inside a sentence or block of text. 
* **User Agent control** - the size of the target is determined by the user agent 
  and is not modified by the author. Generally this is not the case for web content.
* **Essential** - the size of the target is essential to the information being conveyed,
  e.g. a tutorial demonstrating what a small button looks like. This exception is rare.

## Applying this check

Nearly all websites will fail this check by default. The minimum size requirement
is larger than most links and controls on most websites.

This is the much stricter version of the WCAG 2.2 AA check for target size. Most websites
should focus on the AA check before considering this AAA check:

* [Target Size (Minimum)](https://w3c.github.io/wcag/understanding/target-size-minimum.html)

## Methodology

This check is run on both the mobile and desktop versions of every page. Results
for each may differ.

1. All interactive elements are identified, including buttons, links, and form controls. 
2. If an element is preceded or followed directly by a non-empty text node, the control
   is ignored.
3. If an element is not normally visible, it is ignored. This includes elements which 
   are positioned offscreen or cropped (e.g. for 'screen-reader only' text).
4. If an element is a link, and another visible link on the page points to the same URL, with 
   that other link meeting the size requirements, the element is ignored.
5. Otherwise, the element must have a minimum size of 44 x 44 CSS pixels.

## Troubleshooting

Silktide only records the first 100 instances of a failure on a page. Because failures
of this check are common, it is possible that your page has more than 100 failures, but
only the first 100 will be shown.

## Further reading

* [Target Size (Enhanced)](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/target-size-enhanced)

ensure-reasonable-target-size

August 2025

July 2025

Sovereign Housing Association Limited

Title / URL	Issues
Advice and guides \| Sovereign Housingwww.sovereign.org.uk/advice-and-guides	84
Support with the cost of living \| Sovereign Housingwww.sovereign.org.uk/cost-of-living-support	74
Winter tips, advice and support \| Sovereign Housingwww.sovereign.org.uk/winter-ready	74
Repairs information \| SNGwww.sovereign.org.uk/advice-and-guides/repairs	72
Thriving communities \| Sovereign Housingwww.sovereign.org.uk/thriving-communities	66
Key worker accommodation \| Sovereign Housingwww.sovereign.org.uk/keyworker-accommodation	60
Early Careers \| Sovereign Housingwww.sovereign.org.uk/careers/early-careers	60
About uswww.sovereign.org.uk/about-us	58
Our benefits \| Sovereign Housingwww.sovereign.org.uk/careers/our-benefits	56
Our research \| Sovereign Housingwww.sovereign.org.uk/about-us/research	56

Aim for large interactive controls

Sovereign Housing Association Limited

Where this issue has occurred