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Wow. Blinking text. The nostalgia trip that's actively hostile to epileptics.

by msla 8y ago

tempodox 8y ago
I wish every browser had an option to turn the blinking off, filed under “accessibility”.
- msla 8y ago
  I wish everyone were interested in making others feel welcome, as opposed to sick.
- a1369209993 8y ago
  That would be nice (even for non-epileptics), but in the meantime a alternative is: blink { text-decoration: none !important; } * { animation: none !important; } /* or -whatever-animation as needed */ Ideally, we could embed a time-domain low-pass filter in the graphics rendering pipeline, so we aren't relying on the Internet of Hate[0] to not deliberately or accidentally exacerbate medical conditions or the Browser of Spam and Spyware[1] to do anything about it. 0: aka the internet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17785162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17785162 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18324681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18324681
pdpi 8y ago
The typical range of problematic frequencies for photosensitive epilepsy is around 3-30Hz (with e.g. the UK having laws that govern flashing lights in the 2-50Hz range). One small chunk of text blinking at a 1s interval (1Hz), while annoying, is almost certainly not a seizure risk.
- msla 8y ago
  OK, technically, it's "Flicker Vertigo": > Flicker vertigo, sometimes called the Bucha effect, is "an imbalance in brain-cell activity caused by exposure to low-frequency flickering (or flashing) of a relatively bright light."[1] It is a disorientation-, vertigo-, and nausea-inducing effect of a strobe light flashing at 1 Hz to 20 Hz, approximately the frequency of human brainwaves.[2][3] The effects are similar to seizures caused by epilepsy (in particular photosensitive epilepsy), but are not restricted to people with histories of epilepsy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker_vertigo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker_vertigo Happy now? Don't put crap in your page which can trigger neurological events, even if it isn't technically epilepsy!

Wow. Blinking text. The nostalgia trip that's actively hostile to epileptics.

by msla 8y ago

Wow. Blinking text. The nostalgia trip that's actively hostile to epileptics.

tempodox 8y ago

I wish every browser had an option to turn the blinking off, filed under “accessibility”.

msla 8y ago
I wish everyone were interested in making others feel welcome, as opposed to sick.
a1369209993 8y ago
That would be nice (even for non-epileptics), but in the meantime a alternative is: blink { text-decoration: none !important; } * { animation: none !important; } /* or -whatever-animation as needed */ Ideally, we could embed a time-domain low-pass filter in the graphics rendering pipeline, so we aren't relying on the Internet of Hate[0] to not deliberately or accidentally exacerbate medical conditions or the Browser of Spam and Spyware[1] to do anything about it. 0: aka the internet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17785162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17785162 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18324681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18324681

pdpi 8y ago

The typical range of problematic frequencies for photosensitive epilepsy is around 3-30Hz (with e.g. the UK having laws that govern flashing lights in the 2-50Hz range). One small chunk of text blinking at a 1s interval (1Hz), while annoying, is almost certainly not a seizure risk.

msla 8y ago
OK, technically, it's "Flicker Vertigo": > Flicker vertigo, sometimes called the Bucha effect, is "an imbalance in brain-cell activity caused by exposure to low-frequency flickering (or flashing) of a relatively bright light."[1] It is a disorientation-, vertigo-, and nausea-inducing effect of a strobe light flashing at 1 Hz to 20 Hz, approximately the frequency of human brainwaves.[2][3] The effects are similar to seizures caused by epilepsy (in particular photosensitive epilepsy), but are not restricted to people with histories of epilepsy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker_vertigo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker_vertigo Happy now? Don't put crap in your page which can trigger neurological events, even if it isn't technically epilepsy!