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

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From: Brooks Newton
Date: Mar 18, 2021 1:30PM

Here's a question:

Is it essential for the loading indicator to be animated? Does the
animation prove to sighted users, for example, that the page is just still
loading instead of being stuck or frozen due to a computer crash?

Under point 5, "Non-Interferance" in the conformance section, SC 2.2.2
Pause, Stop, Hide is listed as one of four Success Criteria under WCAG 2.x
that apply to all of the content on the page because failing these specific
Success Criteria can cause interference with users trying to perceive and
interact with surrounding content <http://conformance-reqs>;.

This gets complicated fast.

Brooks Newton




On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 12:50 PM Aditya via WebAIM-Forum <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Yes,
> But they also gave a caveat of "similar situation".
>
> So yes users can or cannot interact with the rest of the page.. if they
> cannot, it's OK too since the reason for animation is an essential
> situation.
>
> In this case, since it is also user triggered animation, my assumption is
> that users' context is around the animation and not the rest of the page.
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
>
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