- From: Matthew Smith <matt@kbc.net.au>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 07:52:33 +0930
- To: mburks952@worldnet.att.net
- CC: "'WAI-IG'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Michael R. Burks wrote: > Does anyone know of any issues with animated gifs or other animated images > and screen readers? I can state a non-screen reader problem that I have encountered recently: I have Mozilla set not to play animations as I can't stand having movement on the screen when trying to read text. What is actually rendered is the first frame only. A site I encountered recently had a flashing message. The first frame of this animation was just plain black. Having no alt attribute, I couldn't even see what it was by giving it focus and reading the tooltip. It took me quite some time to work out why these black splodges were appearing on the screen until I fired the same page up in Konqueror [the KDE user agent, same codebase as the Mac Safari]. As screen reading software/talking user agents would render the value of the alt attribute if present (as would Lynx), users of graphical user agents are the ones likely to find this inaccessible if they have switched animations off. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Kadina Business Consultancy South Australia
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