Stuart's point is that blinking content violates checkpoint 7.2 of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines:
"Until user agents allow users to control blinking, avoid causing content to blink (i.e., change presentation at a regular rate, such as turning on and off)" Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Hall Sent: 28 November 2008 20:44 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] the Name attribute On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 13:07 +0000, Stuart Foulstone wrote: > Blinking text is against standards in itself, so how can you do it in > a standards compliant way? Using the sample I posted - see below. That validates. Cheers Dave > > On Fri, November 28, 2008 10:45 am, Dave Hall wrote: > >> <!-- ... --> > >> <head> > >> <style type="text/css"> > >> /* ... */ > >> .blink{ > >> text-decoration: blink; > >> } > >> /* ... */ > >> </style> > >> <!-- ... --> > >> </head> > >> <body> > >> <!-- ... --> > >> <span class="blink">my blinking test</span> > >> <!-- ... --> > >> </body> > >> > >> instead of > >> <!-- ... --> > >> <blink>my blinking test</blink> > >> <!-- ... --> ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
