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From: Derren
Date: Mar 5, 2002 1:33PM

I believe (j) would cover the blink element, but not the marquee. The
marquee element just causes text to scroll across the screen, so I
think the main concern has to do with an inability to stop the text
if one can't read it fast enough.

While I think that most would agree that avoiding use of the marquee
element is a good idea, I still don't see it covered in 508.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Derren Hermann

>Yes, I believe the following from the subsection 1194.22 applies.
>(j) Pages shall be designed to avoid causing the screen to flicker with a
>frequency greater than 2 Hz and lower than 55 Hz.
>
>Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
>Mark Rew
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Derren" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 11:39 AM
>Subject: blink and marquee elements
>
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>> I am currently evaluating a website for Section 508 compliance and I
>> came across the use of the marquee element.
>>
>> In the Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0...
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/
>>
>> ...it is mentioned that "The BLINK and MARQUEE elements are not
>> defined in any W3C HTML specification and should not be used."
>>
>> Does Section 508 cover the marquee and blink elements in any way?
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