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From: Laura Carlson
Date: Nov 13, 2006 11:00AM

Any opinions on the accessibility of Carl Camera's "CSS Photo Shuffler":

http://iamacamera.org/sandbox/photoshuffler/

We are contemplating using something like this on one of our sites.

It doesn't seem to flicker or produce a strobe-like affect. But is the
slow fading affect a problem?

Our University standard [1] says to:

"Avoid the use of blinking page elements and scrolling marquees.
Blinking page elements and the refreshing of the screen to animate
marquees shall do so at a frequency of less than twice a second (2 Hz)
or greater than 55 times a second (55 Hz)."

Also is the lack of an on/off switch that the _user_ could
control...with _off_ as the default a problem? Any other problems with
it?

Thanks,
Laura

[1] http://cap.umn.edu/ait/web/BlinkingPageElementsAndMarquees.html

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Laura L. Carlson
Information Technology Systems and Services
University of Minnesota Duluth
Duluth, MN U.S.A. 55812-3009
http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/webdesign/