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 In 2012, I fell ill. Abrupt dizziness. It took a while to realise it had been triggered by OS X animations. iOS 7 was worse. I couldn’t use my phone. Ten years ago today, my piece ‘Why iOS 7 is making some users sick’ was published in The Guardian, kicking off years of fighting for better vestibular accessibility in apps. 

I wrote a piece about all this here: https://reverttosaved.com/2023/09/27/apple-reduce-motion-and-the-battle-for-vestibular-accessibility/