That’s a good point, I shouldn’t have used that as an example. We want to ignore the size/timing aspects we had in the term ‘significant’ when at AAA.
[Steve] So scrolling marquees should be in or out of scope?
In fact, scaling could be seen as a type of motion, which could be called movement, so perhaps the simplest is:
“For non-essential movement triggered by a user action, there is a mechanism to prevent the movement and still perform the action.“
Does that work better? Personally I find ‘motion’ more straightforward but I have a CSS bias.
[Steve] I wasn’t trying to draw a distinction between “motion” and “movement” since they are synonyms, just that animation implies motion so “motion animation” doesn’t create a subset in my mind.
These are all terminology optimisations around the core idea, so hopefully not a big deal to change.
[Steve] Yep, I agree. Skimming the GitHub thread, it sounds like there’s only evidence to always exclude color or blinking as not a problem, and to include parallax as nearly always a problem, correct? I think just make a choice to create the subset by being inclusive or exclusive, and at AAA probably the latter?
Inclusive: For animations with parallax effects, scaling or perspective changes, ...
Exclusive: …, except for animations involving only stationary changes such as color or opacity.