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

[trouble]

Can you talk more about Opera? A friend of mine uses it, too.

[jadelennox]

I have very mixed feelings about Opera; in some cases I need Opera for accessibility, and in others Firefox. Most of the time I have both browsers open all the time.

Opera has put an enormous amount of effort into making site-specific settings readily available to the user: cookies, JavaScript, animated icons, pop-ups, frames, etc. There are a huge number of basic browser features that you can get to with a single keystroke. The browser comes with a bunch of accessibility styles for a variety of needs (e.g. high contrast, high zoom, etc.) and they are user-configurable if you know CSS.

BUT.

Firefox has that excellent user community which has been building extensions for years, so we get things like mouseless browsing and the UIUC accessibility extension. Those add-ons just don't exist for Opera. So I use both.

[trouble]

Awesome. Thank you!

[meloukhia]

I really do dream of an ideal browser that combines all of my accessibility needs with the perfect user interface...