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]

It may have been more helpful if you had said that, though. I think that's what you meant with your response to the commenter who suggested browser-level changes, but your actual response was very dismissive and just a link, and was not to the original poster.

I'm not under the mistaken impression that you have all the time and energy and spoons to be everywhere all at once, but it just comes across as really dismissive to respond that way several months after the original post, and to not explain why your response was a link to how to change things at the browser-level. You've explained it now, and explained why my suggestion isn't feasible in a way that makes sense, and I appreciate that.

[denise]

I replied to not-the-original-poster so more than one person who needed the information would get the link as a comment notification, since the OP receives notifications of all comments made while other commenters in the thread only receive notifications of direct replies to them. I missed this post when it originally came through, which is why I didn't reply at the time it was made. The information will be going into one of our accessibility FAQs, which we are working on. I happened to have pulled together the information at a time I was physically unable to type for more than five minutes per day, or I would have left a link at that point. While pulling together things that needed to be in the accessibility FAQs the other day, I was reminded of the post, remembered "oh yeah there was that entry in dw-accessibility about the question, and left a link to the information in the hopes that it could be useful to someone in the meantime.

I am sorry that my attempt to be helpful and to provide someone with the information they need to help make the internet more accessible to them came across as dismissive.