Principle 2 Operable · Guideline 2.2: Enough Time

2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide

Moving or auto-updating content must be pausable.

Level A

What this means in practice

Covers carousels, marquees and animations running longer than five seconds. Movement in the field of view makes reading much harder – for users with attention disorders and everyone else.

Normative wording

The binding text lives at the W3C. What you read here is our own faithful rendering – not a quotation.

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