CSS causes blinking Accessibility Checkpoint

Description

CSS text-decoration: blink has been used to make an element blink, and there’s no way the user can turn this off. This causes severe problems for people with attention deficit disorders.

Help

Use another CSS property in place of the blink value.

Applicable standards

• WCAG 2.0 F4 (Success Criteria: 2.2.2 level A)
• WCAG 2.1 F4 (Success Criteria: 2.2.2 level A)
• WCAG 2.2 F4 (Success Criteria: 2.2.2 level A)
• Section 508 (2017) F4 (Success Criteria: 2.2.2 level A)

Note: Section 508 Refresh (2017) checkpoints are equivalent to WCAG 2.0 level A and level AA checkpoints.

Change history

• 5.22 Jul 2016 Fixed false positive on print media.
• 3.0 Dec 2008 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: AccWcag2-F4-1