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EWG:Draft Oct 26 Pausing

3-I - Pausing

This page is the text proposed in the Nov Plenary Meeting.

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Proposed text in Oct 26 draft:
Moving, blinking, scrolling, or auto-updating information must allow pausing by the user unless it is part of an activity where timing or movement is essential. Content that is pure decoration must at least allow stopping by the user.


Comments from ITAA
a. Auto updating is not well understood by lay audience

b. Providing pause is major impact to some web developers. Constituents want to know how acute is the problem? Confusion? Seizures? [This question begs the larger question of which provisions are more important than others – vendors insist on being able to make reasonable tradeoffs between them]

Comments from CSD/Trace Center

  1. Web content can be paused and restarted by 'clicking' on the content – without needing to add any controls.
  2. This provision is for people with attention disorders – and also, in some cases, for those using screen readers or magnifiers that refocus on changing content.

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