Blocking animations?

[meloukhia]

Animations and flashing things (including animated user icons and mood icons) basically break my brain and they keep showing up on my reading list, much to my dismay. I'm wonder if it's possible to add an option to the user settings to block all animations on the site (in my innocence about web development, I have no idea how difficult this would be)? I know this is an accessibility need for other people as well. 

Comments

[codeman38]

...Actually, that just gave me an idea. Since I'm guessing the icons are pulled from some sort of database... add a column indicating whether the image is animated, that's set at upload time.

[aithine]

Yep, that could solve the problem for icons--they would only have to be checked when uploaded or changed, rather than every single time. Could probably do the same thing for mood icons, assuming (again *g*) that the info where the mood theme pictures is stored in the db.

[aithine]

Also, I ♥ your grammar geek icon. *g*