- 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
On a calendar app's event-creation form, a visitor hits this wall: animated GIFs looping indefinitely alongside content, no freeze mechanism.
Why it matters
People with attention disabilities, low vision, or screen-reader users who lose place when content moves. Here, on a calendar app's event-creation form, the result is they are interrupted before they can finish reading.
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.
Outcome
After the fix, the same visitor to a calendar app's event-creation form can now keep up without being rushed or interrupted.
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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