Avoid MARQUEE elements |
WAI / WCAG 1.0 Priority 2 checkpoint 7.3
Issue Description The page contains the MARQUEE element which creates a scrolling text area.
How to fix Try to avoid using that animation effect. Try substituting it with a table layout or, as a better choice, with a clever usage of CSS properties. Remember that the W3C (HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#style-text] ) suggests not to use BLINK and neither MARQUEE.
Issue Explanation Animated features within a page negatively affect the way in which a user looks and reads the page content. Users will be continuously distracted away from the most important page content. In addition, users browsing this page with a browser that cannot understand the MARQUEE element will be presented with a page that does not work as intended. Many browsers don't support MARQUEE, like Netscape Navigator and Opera. In addition, MARQUEE is not a standard HTML 3.2 or HTML 4.0 tag.