Best Practice N°161 - Level 2- Section multimedia
Description
If animations, sounds or flashing items are looped in the page, a user can stop them.
Objectives
Allows users to maintain control of things that are displayed.
Can minimize the rare risks of epilepsy.
Possible technical solutions:
Add a link or a button that makes it possible to stop an animation or a sound. Make sure that theses commands are always available. In the case of flashing pictures or animations limit the number of loops to two or three.
Control methods:
Go to pages that contain looped animations or sounds and test the stop commands.
Put these Best Practices to use.