Accessibility issues with animated gifs #34

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Octech6711 · 2025-09-09T19:40:54-05:00

Octech6711 commented

2025-09-09 19:40:54 -05:00

Originally created by @DavidBailes on GitHub.

The animated gifs which have been used in Audacity Support break a number of accessibility guidelines.
See, for example, https://www.bbc.co.uk/gel/features/how-to-make-accessible-animated-images
Note in particular that the issue with blinking, moving, scrolling stuff is Level A: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#pause-stop-hide
It may be easier just not to use them.

As a connected issue, if you export a page which includes an animated gif as a pdf, the image in the pdf is not animated. So if any information was only available in the animation, this will be lost in the pdf.

Originally created by @DavidBailes on GitHub. The animated gifs which have been used in Audacity Support break a number of accessibility guidelines. See, for example, https://www.bbc.co.uk/gel/features/how-to-make-accessible-animated-images Note in particular that the issue with blinking, moving, scrolling stuff is Level A: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#pause-stop-hide It may be easier just not to use them. As a connected issue, if you export a page which includes an animated gif as a pdf, the image in the pdf is not animated. So if any information was only available in the animation, this will be lost in the pdf.

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2025-09-09 19:40:54 -05:00

Octech6711 commented

2025-09-09 19:40:55 -05:00

@LWinterberg commented on GitHub:

GIFs should be removed now

@LWinterberg commented on GitHub: GIFs should be removed now

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2025-09-09 19:41:02 -05:00

[PR #34] [MERGED] added plugin pack to plugin-suites.md #66

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