Blinking Text Test, 1
Suppressing Blinking Controlled by Proprietary Markup

What Is Being Tested?

This document is part of a suite of pages designed to test the implementation of the W3C's User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG). In particular, this page is designed to test implementation of UAAG checkpoint 3.3:

3.3 Allow configuration to render animated or blinking text as motionless, unblinking text. [Priority 1] Content only.

Content type labels: VisualText.

Note: A "stock quote ticker" is an example of animated text. This checkpoint does not apply for blinking and animation effects that are caused by mechanisms that the user agent cannot recognize. This checkpoint requires configuration because blinking effects may be disorienting to some users but useful to others, for example users who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Techniques for checkpoint 3.3

This page is a test of your user agent's ability to control or supress blinking text achieved using the proprietary element BLINK. Blinking text alternates between a visible and invisible state.

What Should Happen?

This section of the document contains a paragraph which contains blinking text. This document utilizes the proprietary HTML extension BLINK to force text to alternate between a visible and invisible state.

This is some text which should appear and disappear.

How to Provide Feedback

Please send comments and observations about this test page to <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>. Your comments will be archived in the User Agent mailing list's public hypertext archive. Please make your observations as specific and detailed as possible. Be sure to include the following information when you report your observations to the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group:

1. operating system (including version/revision number)
2. assistive technology, if any (please include version number)
3. user agent name and version (e.g. MSIE, version 5.00.2920.0000 update versions ;q254902)
4. any special settings (i.e. any changes you or your adaptive equipment made to your user agent's default configuration)
5. whether your user agent recognizes the BLINK element--that is, did the text appear to blink?
6. whether you were able to the blinking text on the page from appearing and disappearing. Please provide the following specific information:
   1. how did you suppress the blinking text? Please list all of the keystrokes, mouse click(s), etc. you used to stop the text from blinking, in the order they were executed
   2. did the text remain motionless after you suppressed blinking?
   3. does your user agent provide an option for slowing the blinking rate? did it provide you with the option to slow or suppress blinking?
   4. if you are using assistive technology, what effect did the blinking text have on your ability to review this page's content?

Terminal Index

1) Return to the User Agent Test Suite's Index

2) User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (UAWG)

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