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RE: Forcing a page refresh

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From: julian.rickards
Date: Jul 8, 2003 1:58PM

Don't use an automatic page refresh as that will interfere with a user's
experience and break accessibility rules.

However, you can use JavaScript as long as you have a <noscript> block which
has a static image. The static image can be changed by your server so that
someone with JS disabled can manually refresh the page and see a different
image.

Or, you could have an animated gif that comprises of all of the images -
however, it does add to the download time. WRT accessibility, as long as the
animation does not occur faster than once per second, you won't run up
against the "flashing and blinking" issue.

Jules

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