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Oh there’s a web usability standard for this.
Because science has demonstrated that autistic people are more highly distracted by motion, there is now a header you can send when requesting a site which basically says “no animation please” and you get a more static interface.
I’m just kidding. Can you imagine if that were the case? That would be incredible.
It’s true by the way: autistic people are more distracted by motion than non-autistics.
Interface elements that move in response to user interaction aren’t so bad. But things that just move for the hell of it make websites un-usable for me.
What I do in those cases where they don’t provide a pause button is I just delete the elements using dev tools in my browser. Any carousel you can’t pause. Any sparkly stars. Any animated backgrounds. Must be deleted before I can proceed.