No-motion / forced-reduced-motion issue draft #7440
Description
The TAG review of scroll linked animations identified an existing issue that without explicit developer support, animations with motion on the web do not respect a user's desire to reduce motion. We explored many options for reducing motion but found that it was not possible to automatically reduce motion without sometimes making content invisible. We still feel it is worthwhile exploring whether we can forcibly reduce or remove motion with a new user setting. From our demo we came up with at least two feasible options to force motion reduction, though we are open to exploring others:
- Not running animations.
- Stepping between key points of animation.
We propose adding a new setting for users to elect to forcibly reduce motion, possibly breaking content in the same way that other existing settings such as disabling images or Javascript does and exposing a media query value for when this setting is on so that developers can provide a fallback variant.