Scrolling Text Demo - Information For This Demo

Quick tip: This is a visual test. Look for any movement on the page, including scrolling text, flashing or blinking content, carousels that change pictures automatically, videos that start automatically on part of the page, and so on.

Any sort of movement can be distracting enough to prevent some people from being able to focus on your page content.

How to test this issue

Test tips for this issue:

  • You may need to visually scan a page to see any text that is scrolling.
  • Test technique: Visual Test.
    • Visually scan the page to see if any text is scrolling, blinking, flashing, or contains repetitive motion.
    • Scrolling content, blinking content, flashing content, and content that contains repetitive motion is allowed as long as the following conditions are true:
      • The movement, blinking, or flashing stops automatically within 5 seconds.
      • Flashing, blinking, or repetitive motion does not repeat faster than 3 times per second.

Note: WAVE may alert you to some possible errors, such as the use of the marquee HTML tag.

Failing WCAG Guidelines and Test Tips

For this demo, the following WCAG guidelines fail:

  • 2.2.2: Pause, Stop, Hide
  • 2.3.1 Three Flashes or Below Threshold