Level A · WCAG 2.0
2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide
Anything that moves, blinks or scrolls automatically for more than five seconds needs a pause, stop or hide control.
Partly automated Some failures are detectable, others need judgement.
How it fails in practice
A hero carousel that advances every four seconds while somebody is still reading the first slide.
How to fix it
Add a visible pause control, and honour prefers-reduced-motion. Better still: let people move the carousel themselves.
At a glance
- Level
- Level A — the minimum. Failing one of these usually makes something impossible rather than merely hard.
- Principle
- Operable
- Guideline
- 2.2 Enough Time
- Added in
- WCAG 2.0
- EN 301 549
- 9.2.2.2
- Automated check
- Partly automated
Partly automated
How far an automated check gets
A tool finds some failures here and cannot see the rest. A clean automated result means the checks that exist found nothing — not that the criterion is met. This is the gap that makes a green scan look like an accessible site, and it is where our agents and a human reviewer do the remaining work.
Related criteria
Other criteria under the same guideline.
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