- From: Marja-Riitta Koivunen <marja@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 17:07:38 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
I guess we have two groups of users: 1) those that do not tolerate any blinking/animation and 2) those that need to be able to control them, for instance so that the animation is shown only once (n times) if not explicitly activated by the user. The last group is basically everybody, because all too often the pages are difficult to read because the eyes continuously wander to the animation and lost the reading place on the text line. We can count on the designers/programmers to educate themselves and avoid these problems. However, it has at least two problems: there are always designers who don't know about these problems and the user interface for turning things off will be confusing as everybody is doing it in their own way. So, I think the user agent should provide a common interface for turning things totally off with alternative info for first group and showing animations only once (n times) for the second group and providing a animation control panel. In addition, the designers/programmers need to have at least an easy library routine to communicate the info with the user agent and provide some the control panel for starting and stopping the page animations. In IE, it seems that I can turn videos, sounds and animations off in multimedia options. So what is the difference in this case? Are these referring only to certain technology? Furthermore, if we would have guidelines that ask designers to provide info (in RDF?) of their Java Appletts, gif-animations etc. so that we know if they are animations or blinking text etc., shouldn't we in that case be able to turn the harmful ones off? Marja
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