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From: Kevin Spruill
Date: Mar 5, 2002 3:01PM

Derren,

While Blink and Marquee aren't mentioned specifically in Section 508 - Item J of the Access Boards guidelines ("avoid causing the screen to blink at a rate of ....") in my mind could/should prohibit the use of blink. A better case is made in the w3c's WCAG guideline 7 - "Ensure that moving, blinking, scrolling, or auto-updating objects or pages may be paused or stopped". Hopefully that helps somewhat - I'm a Sect. 508 compliance checker/remediater here at the National Library of Medicine, NIH and my colleagues and I always rule out the use of Blink (not just because of personal bias against it). Just my $.02

Kevin


Kevin Spruill
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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

Does Section 508 cover the marquee and blink elements in any way?
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