OUGD602 / PPP / Work Experience / Guidelines On Flashing On Websites

Whilst doing one of the set briefs at my work experience, I was given a brief about don't feed seagull's in North Wales and they were looking for some social media images to have under the post.

After creating a set of gif's images I was told that some people with photosensitive epilepsy can have a seizure triggered by displays that flicker, flash, or blink. 

I was then given guidelines to follow this was because I used the colour red as text in a gif animation and was told this wasn't allowed this was an experience that made think about the general public a lot more and how in the industry you can't take any risks. 

This meant that I had to change the colour from red to a yellow colour because of the guidelines they follow at the press office.

The guidelines: 

·         Reducing contrast for any flashing content

·         Avoiding fully saturated reds for any flashing content

·         Reducing the number of flashes even if they do not violate thresholds

·         Providing a mechanism to suppress any flashing content before it begins

·         Slowing down live material to avoid rapid flashes (as in flashbulbs)

·         Dropping the contrast ratio if three flashes within one second are detected