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auto-updating visual content. For audio content that starts automatically, refer to <a href="audio-control">1.4.2 Audio Control</a>.</p>
<p>Moving, blinking, scrolling content that starts automatically because of a general user interaction (such as focusing/hovering over an element,
or scrolling the page), rather than as a result of an intentional <em>activation</em> (such as activating a button),
and which doesn't provide a way to Pause, Stop, or Hide, will fail this Criterion, and potentially
and which doesn't provide a way to pause, stop, or hide, will fail this criterion, and potentially
<a href="animation-from-interaction">2.3.3 Animation from Interaction</a>.</p>
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<p>As a best practice, if a page contains more than one moving, blinking, scrolling, or auto-updating element,
provide a <em>single</em> <a>mechanism</a> to pause, stop, hide, or (in the case of auto-updating content)
control the update frequency that affects all these elements at the same time.</p>
<p>While having separate controls for each of the elements <em>does</em> satisfy the normative requirements
of this success criterion, this won't result in a good user experience for users, who will be forced to manually
pause, stop, hide, or control each moving, blinking, scrolling, or auto-updating element in isolation.</p>
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<h2>Benefits of Pause, Stop, Hide</h2>
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