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Web Accessibility - Priority 2

Web Accessibility: Priority 2

Web Accessibility: Page Refresh

Avoid Auto-Refresh

Do not cause pages to auto-refresh with "HTTP-EQUIV=refresh." In the following inaccessible example, the page would refresh or reload itself every 60 seconds:


            
            <HTML>

            



            <HEAD>
            
               
               <META http-equiv="refresh" content="60">
               
            
            </HEAD>

            



            <BODY>
            
               
               <div>Main Page</div>
               
             
            </BODY>

            



            </HTML>

Automatically refreshing pages can be disorienting to some users. Instead, when using a continually updated page, inform the users that they should reload the page often.

If using auto-refresh is unavoidable, provide a single line of text at the top of the page stating that the page contains changing information and will automatically reload itself after a certain amount of time. Also, provide a link to the next screen for those browsers that do not support the feature.