Oh Wow!!!!!

Wow!!!!!!

Happiness!!!! Happiness!!!!!

I should find a series of five smiles to celebrate, I know..

Wow, thank you VERY much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just a friendly reminder, please take caution when posting animated/flashing images and text for our seizure prone readers! :)

Thank you so much for that information, ellie!

KD

Oh... can you give me an example of what would be bad?

Are the waving ones bad?

Gosh, thank you for bringing that up. I had totally forgotten. Thank you!

Please can you give me an idea of what one that we shouldn't use would be like?

i am the most vocal person here who has photosensitive seizures, so i guess i am the one to answer here.

all animated graphics are bad for someone with photosensitivity and a low seizure threshold. all graphics are bad. all graphics trigger seizures in people who have a low enough seizure threshold. animated graphics trigger them faster.

the internet is full of graphics and animated graphics.

what to do? the person with the problem can turn them all off in their own browser.

we had instructions for doing this up as a sticky in the old epilepsy forum, which i have someplace, but they are outdated since they were mostly for windows 98. i need to update them and post them again.

rule of thumb is that if you can tolerate a TV without having an instant seizure most animated graphics won't bother you. i cannot be in the same room with a TV without having status seizures. makes being in hospitals interesting.

the most important thing is to be careful about changing the refresh rate on your monitor. it is possible to do it wrong and have your monitor burst into flames. do not believe anyone who says they know how to do this safely. they may not.

for a discussion of how to eliminate flash from windows XP, check the computer forum here. dorry and zombie slayer have been helping me configure my computer for about three forums.

i have everything turned off. animations. all graphics. all color. all fonts. everything.

and when all else fails, i keep a large piece of cardboard handy to cover the screen.

In IE 6, you can turn off graphics by:

i. Select 'Internet Options' from the Tools menu.
ii. Select the 'Advanced' tab
iii. Scroll down to 'Multimedia', and click on the box next to 'show pictures' so that there isn't a tick in it.

(It's also useful if you're on dial-up - makes pages load quicker).

Netscape 8.1:

i. Select 'Options' from the Tools menu.
ii. Click on 'Site Controls'
iii. 'Add site' and then type 'braintalk2.org' (left hand bottom corner).
iv. Select the newly appeared 'braintalk2.org', and then on the right click on the box next to 'Allow images to be displayed'.

Firefox:

i. Select 'Options' from the Tools menu.
ii. Select the 'Content' tab.
iii. Click on the box next to 'load Images' so that it doesn't have a tick on.

I realise this only works for those internet browsers rather than the whole of windows - but for those who can tolerate static graphics it may be a helpful half way house.


xxx
Swift

Added this information to the Epilepsy forum.

http://forums.braintalk2.org/showthr...=7887#post7887

I agree
 

I would also like to suggest being able to add more pics. I like to see everything about a person. The smileys do help. There are people like me who type a response and it reads nothing like what is in my head. Smileys can help clear up confusion.

http://http://im1.shutterfly.com/pro...108Abs3DJu0cON