I worked for a construction & real estate company for many years and we had a tenant that did a similar thing not because she was short but because she was in a wheelchair. She would boost herself up from her chair to sit on the counter to reach the lower shelves of the upper cabinets.
When we were building another apartment building the bosses ask her for suggestions. Both the building she had lived in and the new one were designed with outside doors to each apartment and we had already provided a ramp.The only thing she came up with was to put a regular passage door on the bathroom (did you know that bathroom doors are often narrower that those between other rooms?). She said that regular upper cabinets are useful even if not easy to reach from a wheelchair. In regard to that the upper most ones she used for seasonal things that she did not have to get to regularly. Even when she lived in a very large city she had no problems with friends and/or neighbors helping with things that only need to be used rarely but that she did want.
In the other direction many years ago I knew a gal that was a distant relative that was very tall. To make it more comfortable for her back they had the cabinets in their kitchen built with higher counters than standard.