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Comment LC-1578
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Commenter: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>

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The draft states: "This test does not determine whether the user is
able to opt out of refresh."
Is the possibility of opting out going to be covered elsewhere?
Using <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="..." /> fails three
different success criteria of the Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines 2.0 (see failure F40 in "Techniques for WCAG 2.0" [2]).
This is because screen readers will start reading from the top of the
page again when the page refreshes, thereby taking away control from
the user over his interaction with a page.
Server-side redirects [3] are preferable, but WCAG 2.0 currently also
allows client-side redirects if they have no timeout: see techniques
G110 (Using an instant client-side redirect [4]) and H76 (Using meta
refresh to create an instant client-side redirect [5]).
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