- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:25:15 -0500 (EST)
- To: Anne Pemberton <apembert@erols.com>
- cc: Lisa Seeman <seeman@netvision.net.il>, WAI <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
How about a user agent requirement - "make the page sit still"? (It's in there already, and is in fact often possible in current browsers. Charles McCN On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Anne Pemberton wrote: Lisa, If it ever gets to the point where "in reality *many* students" will *have* to take meds to deal with ants crawling across the screen, I will leave the education field! Children are being overdosed with "meds" in schools now! Yes, find a way to turn off distractions, but that means the ability to turn off *anything* on the screen that is distracting, including the text ... But "do not use" isn't fair to the many users who enjoy the animations ... Remember that what is "distracting" to one person is the very thing that makes a page a memorable experience to someone else, and may be exactly what someone else needs to get the meaning of the page. Anne Anne Pemberton apembert@erols.com http://www.erols.com/stevepem http://www.geocities.com/apembert45 -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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