- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:53:01 +1000
- To: Wendy A Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>
- Cc: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
A suggestion: seizures are a very serious health consequence which may result from viewing certain flickering effects. Thus I would tend to be cautious and to say that until we are completely sure that those who are likely to be affected have user agents which offer control over these phenomena and can be expected to have set appropriate configuration preferences, the responsibility should remain with the author and we ought to conclude that the "until user agents" qualifcation hasn't been met. In the Techniques documents we state that flickering (within certain frequency ranges) must be avoided; and so far in this discussion there does not appear to be compelling evidence that the user agent support is, for practical purposes, universal. I think that in this particular case (given the health risks) we would be justified in taking a more conservative approach to deciding when the user agent support is adequate. If clarification of the actual authoring requirement is needed, it should go into the guidelines (WCAG 2.0 and/or techniques). Perhaps after Wendy has collected information from relevant specialists it will be possible to put forward a concrete proposal, if need be.
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