Techniques for WCAG 2.0

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G191: Providing a link, button, or other mechanism that reloads the page without any blinking content

Applicability

This technique relates to all technologies.

This technique relates to:

Description

This is a general technique for allowing people who cannot use a page with blinking content to turn the blinking content off. Conformance Requirement 1 allows for conforming alternate pages to be used to meet conformance. This technique is an example of that approach applied to success criteria 2.2.2.

It is important that the page without blinking content contain all of the information that was on the page with blinking content.

Note 1: Removing the content that was blinking from the page would only be satisfactory if the blinking content was redundant with non blinking content in the original page.

Note 2: This technique can be used in combination with a style switching technique to present a page that is a conforming alternate version for non-conforming content. Refer to C29: Using a style switcher to provide a conforming alternate version (CSS) and Understanding Conforming Alternate Versions for more information.

Examples

Tests

Procedure

  1. Check that there is a mechanism to reload page to turn off blinking.

  2. Check that reloaded page has no blinking.

  3. Check that the reloaded page has all the information and functionality of the original page.

Expected Results

If this is a sufficient technique for a success criterion, failing this test procedure does not necessarily mean that the success criterion has not been satisfied in some other way, only that this technique has not been successfully implemented and can not be used to claim conformance.

Techniques are Informative

Techniques are informative—that means they are not required. The basis for determining conformance to WCAG 2.0 is the success criteria from the WCAG 2.0 standard—not the techniques. For important information about techniques, please see the Understanding Techniques for WCAG Success Criteria section of Understanding WCAG 2.0.