- From: Lisa Seeman <seeman@netvision.net.il>
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 13:00:35 +0200
- To: "WAI" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
--Hi, I have started looking through the minutes, and I would like to explain the intent of 2.2. > People have complain/ commented to me that they have trouble reading and concentrating on a site were there are animations and distractions. Theses comments are of course form people with ADD/ADHD. The problem is>concentrating or following and not interaction. The wording has been carefully chosen - "minimize" and not "do not use" so that you can have alert boxes or other necessary distractions. However imagine an ADHD high school student trying to research a complex topic when there are ants crawling across the screen. Every time the ants come in his field of vision, he will forget what he is doing and have to start again. The designer may think that this will help make the site appeal to teenagers. But in reality many students will have to take medication before using it. An extreme example, but many animations have a similar effect. Defiantly, at least, priority three. lisa >2.2 Minimize content that interferes with the user's ability to >>concentrate. >> * Daniel - why not in guideline 3? >> * Kynn: Daniel didn't like where we split hairs >> * Kynn rewrite to make it fit better with guideline 2 >> * WC: already covered? >> * Kynn: change concentrate to interact? The user's ability to >>do what the user is doing. >> * Aaron: delete this? >> * CS: I like the idea of deleting this. Point of an ad is to >>distract >> * Kynn: there are times when it's important to distract the >>user (alerts) >> * Action Item Kynn: work on this >> * Action Item CS: give feedback >> >
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