Accessibility: WCAG 2.0 A – <blink> Elements Deprecated & Must Not Be Used

This rule requires that no blink elements are present. Flashing text can be difficult to read and blinking objects can be difficult to activate. The associated automated check finds the presence of all blink elements so that they can be removed.

How to Analyse in the SEO Spider

To populate this filter ‘Accessibility’ must be enabled via ‘Config > Spider > Extraction’ and ‘JavaScript rendering’ mode via ‘Config > Spider > Rendering’.

View URLs with this issue in the ‘Accessibility’ tab and ‘<blink> Elements Deprecated & Must Not Be Used’ filter.

Use the lower ‘Accessibility Details’ tab to click on the issue on the left-hand side, and see details of the location on the page of the violation on the right-hand side.

Bulk export the pages and details of the accessibility violations via ‘Bulk Export > Accessibility > All Violations’.

What Triggers This Issue

Please view the Deque University website further reading link below for ruleset triggers.

How To Fix

Ensure <blink> elements are not used.