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Animations, sounds and blinks can be paused.

Give readers the opportunity to pause animated gifs, jingles, sound or visual animations

Objectives

  • Leave the user to control the animations when viewing the content.
  • Allow viewing not with equitable animations or sound content.
  • Make content accessible to disabled readers and readers

Implementation

  • Pour les animation visuelle d’une durée > 5 secondes ou un son d’une durée > 3 secondes, doter systématiquement l’objet multimédia des moyens de contrôle nécessaires : démarrage, arrêt, muet ou volume. Do not use animated graphics that are not controlled or partially controlled by the user (animated gif images in particular). In OPF metrics, indicate these metrics :noFlashingHazardnoMotionSimulationHazardnoSoundHazard

Control

  • On each page containing a visual animation or sound: Controlling the ability to stop the animation, sound or blink (pause, restart, sound volume in case).

Validation

  • Needs to be human verified.

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