Obscured Tooltip on Hover

Some users increase the size of mouse pointers in their operating system or with screen magnification software. These should not obscure tooltip text. [Editors' Note: Possible figure to be added: hover hand obscures important tooltip text]

Examples

The following are images showing a hand cursor obscuring important tooltip text, that could be used to illustrate the issue. I created them based on UMD usability testing with students with low vision. Original samples from the video are linked on the Use case Wiki page [Laura, UC-5].

Icon with hand cursor obscuring a tooltip. The letter 'F' and 'otes' are visible. The middle of the word 'footnotes' is missing. — On hover, a hand cursor obscures a tooltip that should read: "footnotes"

Icon with hand cursor obscuring a tooltip. It reads: 'ssary'. — On hover, a hand cursor obscures a tooltip that should read: "glossary".

Icon with hand cursor obscuring a tooltip. It reads: 'ail'.

On hover, a hand cursor obscures a tooltip that should read: "mail".