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Visual Design Recommendations

Checkpoint 1.13 - Core

Auto-refresh has not been used in the site

WCAG 1.0 Priority 2

WCAG Guideline 7. Ensure user control of time-sensitive content changes.

Users should have control over refreshing of pages content in order to provide context and understanding of the information displayed. Automatic refreshing of content can be very disorienting to some users. Most browsers do not allow the user to disable or vary the refresh rate.

Requirement

Do not use markup to cause a web page to auto-refresh.

Recommendation

The use of the <meta> element with http-equiv="refresh" is deprecated.

Checking Tool

View the Source Code of a web page to ensure there is no use of the <meta> element with http-equiv="refresh".

Information Source

The original source of this information is located on the W3C web site  (www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/#tech-no-periodic-refresh)

 

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