Pest: Accessibility: epilepsy & animated logo?

[AlexMartinFR]

Something interesting came up during our Laracon break talk, regarding the Pest logo.

Concerns:
We wonder if people suffering from epilepsy would be affected by the animated logo on Pest's home page.

Resources:

• An actual academic testing tool: Photosensitive Epilepsy Analysis Tool (PEAT)
• A Guide to use this tool
• MDN's accessibility recommendations

Workaround:
I tried a slowed down version of the current logo:
https://ezgif.com/speed/ezgif-1-325dcc77bf08.gif

I find 10% seems whimsical enough, still convey the intended vibe and shouldn't be as dangerous?

I will take some time to dig through that, and would love to hear from people competent on the matter about this topic!

[nunomaduro]

cc @caneco

[nunomaduro]

Thanks for creating this issue.

[caneco]

@AlexLombry thanks for pointing this out 😅

Really need to check this, we don't want to injure someone 😶

[AlexMartinFR]

I'm not sure I'm him, but thanks 😅

If someone find something interesting about this topic it would be cool to share it here, it would be good knowledge to spread around if we encounter that problem in the future!

[AlexLombry]

Since I saw the comment yes i wasn’t aware of that kind of problem. It’s very interesting to know

[caneco]

Finally managed to get the thing running on a Windows, and made a test with the following clip:

pest-logo-homepage.avi.zip

And according to the analysis tool this was the result:

We got 0️⃣ warnings.

I think it's safe to say that the logo will not cause any harm :phew:

[AlexMartinFR]

Awesome!

Better safe than sorry, and we get to keep the whimsical touch as is 🔥

[m1guelpf]

Could we disable the animation when the prefers-reduced-motion media query is enabled?

[AlexMartinFR]

Very good idea @m1guelpf !

cc @octoper 😉