| Title | Blinking text with JavaScript without a keyboard-accessible mechanism to stop it |
|---|---|
| Description | Document containing a span of text that uses Javascript for blinking to draw attention to sale prices. There is no keyboard-accessible or other mechanism that allows the user to stop the blinking. |
| Creator | BenToWeb (evlach@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-09-01 |
| Status | rejected QA |
Technologies are markup languages or data formats. If the technology is a markup language, “features” refers to elements and attributes.
XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
Feature: span
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification:
Grouping elements: the DIV and SPAN elements
.
Standard ECMA-262 : ECMAScript Language Specification, 3rd edition (December 1999)
The test case is intended to fail because JavaScript causes a blink effect without a mechanism to stop the blinking at 3 seconds or less.
Accessibility expert.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 28, column 22: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#keyboard-operation-all-funcs.
The blinking does not stop in less than 3 seconds, and the content does not provide a mechanism that allows the user to stop it. This test case needs re-testing with a new question in the scenarios.
Use Javascript to stop blinking instead blink to stop control blinking.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 28, column 22: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#keyboard-operation-all-funcs.
The blinking does not stop in less than 3 seconds, and the content does not provide a mechanism that allows the user to stop it.
Use Javascript to stop blinking instead blink to stop control blinking.