- 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
<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
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.
<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 bank's mobile money-transfer screen, this barrier is gone for people with attention disabilities — they can complete the task without hitting this wall.
Who is affected
People with attention disabilities, low vision, or screen-reader users who lose place when content moves.
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