| Title | Blinking text with JavaScript without a keyboard-accessible mechanism to stop it |
|---|---|
| Description | Document containing a span of text that uses Javascript for blinking to draw attention to sale prices. There is no keyboard-accessible or other mechanism that allows the user to stop the blinking. |
| Creator | BenToWeb (evlach@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-09-01 |
| Status | accepted QA |
Technologies are markup languages or data formats. If the technology is a markup language, “features” refers to elements and attributes.
XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
Feature: span
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification:
Grouping elements: the DIV and SPAN elements
.
Standard ECMA-262 : ECMAScript Language Specification, 3rd edition (December 1999)
The test case is intended to fail because the blinking cannot be stopped through a keyboard interface.
Accessibility expert.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 28, column 22: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#keyboard-operation-all-funcs.
The blinking does not stop in less than 3 seconds, and the content does not provide a mechanism that allows the user to stop it.
This test case does not map to a WCAG 2.0 technique or failure.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 28, column 22: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#keyboard-operation-all-funcs.
The blinking does not stop in less than 3 seconds, and the content does not provide a mechanism that allows the user to stop it. This test case needs re-testing with a new question in the scenarios.
Online version: sc2.1.2_l3_002.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 28, column 22: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#keyboard-operation-all-funcs.
The blinking does not stop in less than 3 seconds, and the content does not provide a mechanism that allows the user to stop it.