Avoid MARQUEE elements  
WAI / WCAG 1.0 Priority 2 checkpoint 7.3
 
 
Issue Description

The page contains the MARQUEE element which creates a scrolling text area.

 
 
How to fix

Try to avoid using that animation effect. Try substituting it with a table layout or, as a better choice, with a clever usage of CSS properties.

Remember that the W3C (HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#style-text] ) suggests not to use BLINK and neither MARQUEE.

 
 
Issue Explanation

Animated features within a page negatively affect the way in which a user looks and reads the page content. Users will be continuously distracted away from the most important page content.

In addition, users browsing this page with a browser that cannot understand the MARQUEE element will be presented with a page that does not work as intended.

Many browsers don't support MARQUEE, like Netscape Navigator and Opera. In addition, MARQUEE is not a standard HTML 3.2 or HTML 4.0 tag.