Kilotest: Diagnoses of blink element violation by HTML element 256 on Mozilla Foundation page

Basics

About the Mozilla Foundation page

• URL: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/
• Tested 38 days ago by job tyn on 2026-04-24 at 19:48

About HTML element 256

• Tag name: BLINK
• Text: Products … About us
• Start tag: <blink class="spacer-gif">
• XPath: /html/body/nav[1]/div[1]/div[1]/blink[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1548, y = 16, width = 100, height = 0

About the blink element issue

• Why it matters: Motion-sensitive user may suffer harm
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 2.2.2

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the blink element issue for HTML element 256 of the Mozilla Foundation page.

1. <blink> elements are deprecated and must not be used

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: blink

2. Blink elements cannot satisfy the requirement that blinking information can be stopped within five seconds.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

   Rule: E-WCAG2AAA.Principle2.Guideline2_2.2_2_2.F47

3. Content found that blinks persistently

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: blink_elem_deprecated

4. [failed] Used blink element.

   Tool: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-WCAG-T13

5. Blinking content

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: blink