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RE: Movement in pages

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From: Frank Gaine
Date: May 1, 2002 9:22AM

mark,

thanks for your reply. what do you think the situation would be with
a purely decorative Flash-based element that moves but does not contain
any essential information?

Would the design have to omit this feature in order to comply with
this WAI checkpoint (even if it were made accessible according to
Macromedia's guidelines).

Regards
Frank Gaine


At Wednesday, 1 May 2002, you wrote:

>If you have some sort of scrolling text a user may need to freeze
it so they
>can read it. Those with cognitive disabilities may become overwhelmed
and
>not understand fast moving information. Flashing lights or flickering
could
>trigger a seizure for someone with a seizure disorder.
>
>-mark
>
>