Scrolling Text Test, 1
Suppressing MARQUEE

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

What Should Happen?

This page is a test of your user agent's ability to control or supress scrolling text achieved using the proprietary MARQUEE element. This section of the document contains three paragraphs which contain scrolling text. The first test paragraph contains text which should scroll from right to left across the physical screen. The second test paragraph contains text which should scroll from left to right across the physical screen. The third and final test paragraph contains text which should appear to move back and forth on the screen.

1. Text Which Scrolls from Left to Right

This is some text which should scroll from left to right across the visual screen.

2. Text Which Scrolls from Right to Left

This text should scroll from right to left in a very constrained space.

3. Text Which Alternates Scrolling Direction

Rock-a-bye Baby! (Text should move back and forth)

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 recognize the MARQUEE element--that is, did the text appear to scroll? did each test paragraph appear to scroll in a different manner? Please be as specific as possible.
6. whether you were able to stop any of the scrolling text on the page from scrolling. Please provide the following specific information:
   1. how did you suppress the scrolling text? Please list all the keystrokes, mouse click(s), etc. you used to stop the scrolling text from scrolling, in the order they were executed
   2. did the text remain motionless after you suppressed scrolling?
   3. does your user agent provide an option for slowing the scrolling rate? did it provide you with the option to slow or suppress scrolling?

Terminal Index

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

2) User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (UAWG)

3) send comments and observations to w3c-wai-ua@w3.org

Note: Due to the use of the proprietary element MARQUEE, this document's markup does not validate.

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