Motor Skill

A motor skill is a learned ability to produce a coordinated movement of muscles to achieve an outcome, ranging from gross-motor actions like walking, jumping, and balancing to fine-motor actions like handwriting, buttoning a shirt, or manipulating a stylus. Motor skills strongly influence quality of life, independent living, and access to education and play, and motor differences are common in autism, cerebral palsy, stroke, and many other conditions. In accessibility design, attention to motor skills shapes input methods, target sizes, gesture vocabularies, exercise content in rehabilitation games, and the pacing of interactions.