prefers-reduced-motion ignored
- Forbidden
- Animation with no reduced-motion path
- Instead
- Always provide the reduced path. Non-negotiable — this is a vestibular safety issue, not a preference.
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Why this rule
A consequence worth stating: motion is never the sole signal, for the same reason colour is not (C-20). Honouring the reduced-motion path removes the animation, so any state that was communicated by movement alone is communicated to that user by nothing at all. A field that only shakes on a bad password has no error state under reduced motion. Pair the motion with text, an icon, or a colour change that survives without it.
- Kind
- Rule
- Section
- Things to avoid
- Group
- Motion
- Bucket
- judgment
- Severity
- note
- Since
- v0.1.0