The real reason animated GIFs are a bad idea

[Michael S. Wilde]

Instead of using this incorrect analogy about "wheelchair access" in
reference to animated gifs, why not ask the browser companies to create an
option that allows you to turn off animation?...

I've got a scrolling java applet on our library's page.  You can turn off
the java in Netscape or IE...


				Michael



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Michael S. Wilde
Excellence in Library Information Systems                    
mswilde at csusm.edu   
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> From: Cameron Parish <cameron at serv.net>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
> Subject: Re: The real reason animated GIFs are a bad idea
> Date: Wednesday, November 13, 1996 1:35 PM
> 
> 
> On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Roy Tennant wrote:
> 
> > They should be used very judiciously and with care, 
> > and only when nothing else will do.
> 
> You could even look at animated gifs from a handicapped-access point of
> view.  I've got a moderate case of attention deficit disorder, and
> animated gifs drive me *absolutely* *crazy*.  So crazy, in fact, that
I've
> been known to put masking tape on my screen to block out animations that
I
> can't scroll past.  A "kew1!!!" animation-heavy page that is merely
> irritating to most people can be more or less illegible for people with
> ADD.  And attention disorders are more common than you might think.
> 
> Nobody would build a library without wheelchair access -- at least, I
hope
> not. Why build a library web page that ADD'ers can't read?  
> 
> delurking,
> Cam "and I thought <BLINK> was bad" Parish
> cameron at serv.net
>