A question has come up about SC 2.2.2 & the blinking caret/cursor...

Hi gang,

As we are digesting WCAG2ICT's guidance internally at Oracle, a question 
came up about whether and how SC 2.2.2: Pause, Stop, Hide 
<http://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2ict/#time-limits-pause> should be applied to 
the blinking text caret/cursor in a terminal window (or the actual 
machine console).

We presume that the blinking text caret/cursor is too small a 
blinking/flashing region to trigger 2.3.1 Three Flashes or Below 
Threshold <http://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2ict/#seizure-does-not-violate>, but 
that is addressing a different concern.


Should a blinking text caret/cursor be a violation of 2.2.2?  Or is what 
is blinking not "information"?  Or is the blinking "essential"?  Or is 
perhaps the blinking area small enough that it doesn't serve as a 
significant distraction (since it's not a problem on a console for a 
console screen reader or magnifier), that we might appropriately add 
language to Understanding to essentially exempt that behavior?


Regards,

Peter
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