• Success Criterion 2.2.2
  • Conformance level A

Pause Control That’s Present but Not Keyboard Accessible

2.2.2 — Pause, Stop, Hide

Scenario

Setting

A bank's mobile money-transfer screen

What’s wrong

Pause control present but not keyboard accessible or not labeled (mechanism unusable).

Example

Watch a bank's mobile money-transfer screen closely and you'll spot this: pause control present but not keyboard accessible or not labeled (mechanism unusable).

Why it matters

People with attention disabilities, low vision, or screen-reader users who lose place when content moves. On a bank's mobile money-transfer screen, this barrier means they are interrupted before they can finish reading.

How to test

Tab to the pause control: if it's not keyboard accessible, or has no accessible label, it's effectively unusable and fails.

How to fix

A visible, keyboard-usable control must pause, stop, or hide the moving, blinking, or auto-updating content.

Outcome

Corrected, a bank's mobile money-transfer screen now lets a visitor read the content without losing their place, specifically for the “Pause Control That's Present but Not Keyboard Accessible” issue on a bank's mobile money-transfer screen.

Who is affected

People with attention disabilities, low vision, or screen-reader users who lose place when content moves.

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