- From: Florian Rivoal via GitHub <noreply@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 06:39:57 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
> > Whether an image has alt text or not doesn't change whether you can stop its animation > > No, but it _does_ control whether or not the image is exposed to users — regardless of whether the author adds a feature to control it. If the image isn't exposed, it doesn't matter if the author adds that feature since a user may not be able to get to it to trigger the control written by the author. A "turn off all image animations on the page" button would be accessible (if the button is properly designed) and understandable whether or not there are images on the page, animated or not, with alt text or not. It's not terribly useful if there are no images on the page, but that's a separate question. Let's say you're on a page with animated borders in the style of a spinning barber-pole. There would generally not be an expectation that such images would have alt text, they're purely decorative. I don't see why we should require that alt text must be added just because the author wants to add a "stop border animations" button on the page. > I think there's a typo in this sentence? fixed. -- GitHub Notification of comment by frivoal Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/13785#issuecomment-5391640142 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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