Re: Embeded Flash content

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:10 AM, <noreply@w3.org> wrote:

>
> Name: Makoto Ueki
> Email: makoto.ueki@gmail.com
> Affiliation: WAIC (Japan)
> Document: W2
> Item Number: Success Criterion 2.2.2
> Part of Item:
> Comment Type: question
> Summary of Issue: Embeded Flash content
> Comment (Including rationale for any proposed change):
> Flash animation is embeded in a HTML web page. The animation has five
> screens. It starts automatically, lasts more than five seconds, and is
> presented in parallel with other content. It also has five buttons to stop
> the animation. When each button receive focus, the movement of the animation
> will be paused.
>
> Is this considered to be "a mechanism for the user to pause" the animation?
>
> The point is that it might not be obvious for users to understand that the
> buttons are the mechanism.
>
> Example:
> http://www.fujitsu.com/us/
>
> Proposed Change:
> Need an answer from WCAG WG to harmonize JIS with WCAG 2.0.
>
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Response from the Working Group
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WCAG just says that a mechanism needs to be provided. Whether something is
obvious is not testable - although good practice would be to do this of
course.   In this case you can point to any of the 5 buttons OR point to the
image itself to pause it.

For the animated text bar, there is actually a pause button shown.

Loretta Guarino Reid, WCAG WG Co-Chair
Gregg Vanderheiden, WCAG WG Co-Chair
Michael Cooper, WCAG WG Staff Contact


On behalf of the WCAG Working Group