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Re: GIF and accessibility
From: Barry Hill
Date: Nov 24, 2019 2:19AM
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Hi
Here's a good article by the BBC on animated GIFs:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/gel/guidelines/how-to-make-accessible-animated-images
Cheers
Barry
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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Abby
Kingman
Sent: 22 November 2019 9:13 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] GIF and accessibility
I feel a little silly about posting this, but here goes.
One of our marketing folks recently posted an article about how to create
and post GIFs as a way to boost your branding efforts. I sent her a note
asking if she might expand the article with a bit about how to make sure
these are accessible - can you add alt text, will they respect the
prefers-reduced-motion query, can they be made to pause? Sadly when I tried
googling for gif accessibility, I got a bunch of gifs about accessibility
(eye roll).
I did some quick screen reader testing, and got different results depending
on where the GIF was loaded (twitter, slack), but basically got buttons or
just nasty urls.
As far as I can find, there really is no way to make these accessible - is
that really true?? If not, can anyone post some resources?
Thanks!!
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Abby Kingman, CPACC
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