Do flashing, moving ads violate Internet access for the disabled?
I am autistic and have a serious problem with sensory overload. Now flashing, moving and dynamic ads are all the craze on the Internet, but these adds give me significant problems in being able to read the text on the pages they are on. Beyond that I perceive them as being mildly painful. When I was a web developer on large projects in the nineties there was a significant concern about making our web sites legally compliant with laws about Internet access for the disabled. I'm afraid the web is turning into a sea of dancing boloney. Are there any laws that regulate this? If not, do people think there should be laws that regulate this? I also suffer from the autistic tendency towards excessive honesty and so I have been reluctant to use ad blockers. If nothing else are there good options for blocking these sorts of adds. It would kill me if I could no longer use the web and I'd hate to have to use something like Lynx.
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