Skills for Access

Overview of the challenge

People who have a sensitivity to flickering or flashing content are likely to experience difficulty or discomfort if they are required to use resources where content does flicker or flash at certain frequencies, and there is no way of avoiding this content or changing the flicker rate.

Meeting the challenge

Meeting this challenge when using multimedia:

The most important principle is to avoid exposing people to media content that flashes or flickers within the danger rate of 2 and 59 Hertz (flashes per second), and to avoid using rapidly flashing alternate light and dark shades:

• How to avoid specific frequencies for flickering content - general advice.

Allowing people to avoid viewing unnecessarily distracting animated content can also help.

• How to allow user control over animated content - general advice.