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Re: SC 2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide - meaning of "starts automatically"

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From: Mark Magennis
Date: Mar 18, 2021 11:21AM

But in the case I'm talking about the users can interact with the rest of the page while the loading animation is being displayed. So this is not a preload phase as described in that example from the Understanding doc.

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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] [EXTERNAL] Re: SC 2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide - meaning of "starts automatically"

Note 4 of 2.2.2 says

"An animation that occurs as part of a preload phase or similar situation can be considered essential if interaction cannot occur during that phase for all users and if not indicating progress could confuse users or cause them to think that content was frozen or broken."

Based on that any loading indicator animation can be considered "essential". As the new content is loading users cannot interact with that component.

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Aditya

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On Mar 18, 2021, at 9:59 AM, Mark Magennis < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>> And you can only update a percentage value if you know what the total is.
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> That's true, and in the case I am talking about the percentage is never known. It's either Loading or Loaded. But I would think a simple message "Loading" which changes to "Loaded" would be adequate to provide the information without requiring movement.
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