See Understanding Techniques for WCAG Success Criteria for important information about the usage of these informative techniques and how they relate to the normative WCAG 2.0 success criteria. The Applicability section explains the scope of the technique, and the presence of techniques for a specific technology does not imply that the technology can be used in all situations to create content that meets WCAG 2.0.
Adobe Flash Professional version MX and higher
Adobe Flex
This technique relates to:
See User Agent Support Notes for FLASH36. Also see Flash Technology Notes.
The objective of this technique is to control blinking with script
so it can be set to stop in less than five seconds by the script. The
ActionScript setTimeout() method is used to stop the MovieClip's blinking
behavior in less than 5 seconds.
In this example a MovieClip (blinkingTextMC) uses its timeline to
generate a blinking effect. Before 5 seconds has passed, the MovieClip's
gotoAndStop() method is called, which stops the blinking effect.
Example Code:
setTimeout(stopBlinking, 4500);
function stopBlinking() {
var blinkingTextMC = getChildByName('blinkingTextMC');
blinkingTextMC.gotoAndStop(1);
}
For a demonstration, view the working version of Stopping blinking after a timeout. The source of Stopping blinking after a timeout is available.
For each instance of blinking content:
Start a timer for 5 seconds at the start of the blink effect.
When the timer expires, determine if the blinking has stopped.
For each instance of blinking content, #2 is true.
If this is a sufficient technique for a success criterion, failing this test procedure does not necessarily mean that the success criterion has not been satisfied in some other way, only that this technique has not been successfully implemented and can not be used to claim conformance.