• Success Criterion 2.2.2
  • Conformance level A

News Ticker Where Pausing Permanently Hides the Content

2.2.2 — Pause, Stop, Hide

Scenario

Setting

A nonprofit's donation form

What’s wrong

News tickers where pausing hides content permanently (mechanism must not destroy access).

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

Activate a news ticker's pause control: if pausing also permanently hides the content rather than just freezing it, 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 nonprofit's donation form, this barrier is gone for people with attention disabilities — they can finish what they came here to do.

Who is affected

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

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