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From: Katie Haritos-Shea GMAIL
Date: May 5, 2015 2:15PM

The SSB article is pretty good at laying out some of the issues, but I see this newish and common design paradigm as a primary fail it for 2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide - as this kind of content yes absolutely is a problem for AT users (for all of the identified reasons; focus, navigation, location context, accessing footers) - but also majorly for the distractibility barrier it places on users with cognitive disabilities. Easy findable controls should be provided to allow users to stop, pause, hide or control the scrolling - or offer a non-scrolling option on the page - if it lasts more than 5 seconds.

Thoughts? I can't believe infinite or parallax scrolling has not been discussed here.............


* katie *

Katie Haritos-Shea
Senior Accessibility SME (WCAG/Section 508/ADA/AODA)

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jennison Mark Asuncion
Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 2:04 PM
To: webaim-forum
Subject: [WebAIM] infinite scrolling

Hi,

I hadn't seen this topic come up here yet - SSB BART Group has just published the first in a series on infinite scrolling and accessibility http://www.ssbbartgroup.com/blog/infinite-scrolling-impact-on-assistive-technologies-series-1.

Curious how folks are addressing making infinite scrolling accessible and usable.

Jennison