• 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.

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