I am familiar with section 508's guidelines:
http://www.webaim.org/standards/508/excerpts
"(k) Software shall not use flashing or blinking text, objects, or other elements having a flash or blink frequency greater than 2 Hz and lower than 55 Hz."
I'm not sure whether we're in that range or not, but I haven't heard any complaints. I don't want to delve further into that right now.
There are a lot of nuisances other than blinking, such as tickers and animated ads. It takes extra mental cycles to filter out animations, blinking etc. These things are distracting the user from what they're trying to concentrate on. This is a problem for people with cognitive impairments, elderly users and well, even average users. We can't stop the author (or advertisers) from doing all of these things, but I think the question was, is it worth keeping 200 lines of code around for blinking. I say no, it isn't, since it's already nothing more than a distraction. But I'm not married to either outcome.
- Aaron
Brendan Eich wrote:
Aaron wrote:
Boris,
Get rid of it as far as I'm concerned. It's considered a menace for accessibility, for people with dyslexia, seizures or cognitive impairments.
As originally implemented by Netscape, it followed the MIL-STD for avoiding inducing seizures. See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188761, follow comment 3 to http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=31C46266.500F%40netscape.com&oe=UTF-8.
Aaron, is the military standard out of date?
/be
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