- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@erols.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:12:20 -0400
- To: "Matt May" <mcmay@bestkungfu.com>, "Adam Victor Reed" <areed2@calstatela.edu>, "Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@w3.org>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Matt, We are probably all guilty of describing the elephant by examining a small portion of the whole. It is not a matter of whether my information is true or yours, they are both true (and still limited in not describing the whole that describes the people with attention disabilities and how they use the web. In the past, you may have referred me to a study on distractability, and I tried the exercises. The problem with the study was that the distraction wasn't the motion, but the timing. perhaps combined with the motion. Back to the original question, we are not talking about a flash movie or a marquee, but an animated gif. Perhaps it would be OK in this case to set the animation to just a few loops. How many are needed, and for whom? If we say elsewhere to not limit the user's time interacting with content, will there be a conflict if we say to turn off some elements after they run some number of times? I still think this animated gif will not make a page inaccessible, but will enhance comprehension (department recognition) by its presence. On the browser issue: the most popular browser provides user control. If the Stop button doesn't exist, or work, in Netscape 6, I would hope that would be reason enough to keep someone who needs that control from investing in that browser. Anne Anne Pemberton apembert@erols.com http://www.erols.com/stevepem http://www.geocities.com/apembert45
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