- Success Criterion 2.2.2
- Conformance level A
Looping Animated GIF With No Way to Freeze It
2.2.2 — Pause, Stop, Hide
Scenario
Setting
A calendar app's event-creation form
What’s wrong
Animated GIFs looping indefinitely alongside content, no freeze mechanism.
Example
<div class="carousel" data-autoplay="true"></div>Why it matters
People with attention disabilities, low vision, or screen-reader users who lose place when content moves.
How to test
Time any looping animated GIF alongside content: if it loops indefinitely with no freeze/pause mechanism, it fails.
How to fix
A visible, keyboard-usable control must pause, stop, or hide the moving, blinking, or auto-updating content.
<div class="carousel" data-autoplay="true"></div><button aria-label="Pause carousel">⏸</button>Any auto-updating content past 5 seconds needs a visible pause/stop/hide control.
Outcome
On a calendar app's event-creation form, this barrier is gone for people with attention disabilities — they get the same result as anyone else here.
Who is affected
People with attention disabilities, low vision, or screen-reader users who lose place when content moves.
Learn more
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