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

[meloukhia]

Right, and extensions sidestep the issue that some people access the site from public computers and cannot install extensions/plugins or change browser settings. I don't even know if what I am asking is possible but I figured it was worth a shot to bring it up.

The fix hope suggests is the closest, but I suspect it will also, er, break some site functionality in the process, which is not so happymaking!

[jadelennox]

Turning off animated gifs won't disable any site functionality, and that first link is animations only. I wish Firefox didn't obscure the accessibility settings as much as they do; there's no reasons to obfuscate them like that.

[meloukhia]

Yeah, if I used Firefox, I'd definitely be using that setting! Unfortunately I'm on Chrome, which, as codeman38 points out, oddly doesn't have an option for turning off animations. I haven't had any success with plugins, either (this has been an ongoing source of frustration).