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Re: blink and marquee elements

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From: Anitra Pavka
Date: Mar 5, 2002 2:13PM

This Section 508 point may cover the marquee tag since the user cannot
control the rate at which the text scrolls: (p) "When a timed response is
required, the user shall be alerted and given sufficient time to indicate more
time is required." The scrolling rate may be too fast for some users.
I wouldn't recommend using that tag, anyhow, because it's proprietary
(Microsoft Internet Explorer).


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Derren wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >> 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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