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Standard being reported: Section 6: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and Subsection Seven: Ensure user control of time-sensitive content changes.
The standard may be accessed here.
Some people with cognitive or visual disabilities cannot read moving text quickly. Moving text can also become such a large distraction that the rest of the page becomes undreadable to those with cognitive disabilities. Screen readers cannot read moving text. People with photosensitive epilepsy can also have it triggered by flashing text with a peak at twenty flashes per second or abrupt switches from light to dark. Consequently, Web designers should avoid using anything that causes a computer screen to flicker until user agents provide some way for users to disable it. The BLINK and MARQUEE elements should never be used. They are deprecated elements.
This standard can be implemented by Web designers rather easily. So long as designers avoid using elements that include moving text or rapidly moving images, they'll be able to be in compliance with this standard. If a designer still wants to include moving text/moving images, they'll have to be sure that the animation occurs at a slower rate than perhaps they would first think in order to avoid causing seizures. Until users are able to have the option to turn off animations and such, it is better to just stay away from them while designing Web sites.
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