Is there a way to block horrifying pictures

[mdh]

I stole this content from: https://videogameseizures.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/stop-flash-and-animation-in-your-browser/

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If the flashing images in video games have given you seizures, chances are that other on-screen viewing experiences are potential seizure triggers, too. By making some adjustments to your monitor and browser, you can limit the visual stimulation delivered by computer images.

This list is hardly comprehensive, but it includes some basic approaches to protection against unwanted flashing and animation in the Windows environment. Please contribute additional suggestions!

Monitor adjustments

You can lower the brightness settings on your monitor to reduce contrast and effects of flash. This setting is different on each device/monitor—on my Dell laptop, to lower the screen brightness I hold down the Function key while pressing the up arrow on my keypad.

Desktop and color scheme

In Windows, go to the Settings menu, Control panel > Display.

Don’t select one of those constantly moving designs as a screensaver
Choose default or low-contrast color schemes
Block unwanted Flash videos

Firefox: Download the extension Flash Block at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/?src=search

Flash Block prevents automatic display of moving sequences that are powered by Macromedia Flash or Shockwave. When you load a page containing these images, a placeholder appears on the screen in the spot where the image would be displayed. To view a blocked image, just click on the placeholder.

Internet Explorer 8: instructions on how to disable Flash video graphics:

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/disable-flash-all-but-whitelist-sites-ie8/ or

IE8 has its built-in Flash block: it's called Per-Site ActiveX Control

Internet Explorer 7: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2008/04/07/toggle-flash-add-on-to-disable-flash-in-ie-7/

Chrome: Click on the wrench icon for customizing Chrome. Select Options > Under the Hood > Content Settings > Plug-ins. Choose Disable individual plug-ins and select Flash.

Block ads

Unclutter the page, reduce intrusive distractions, and avoid the attention-seeking graphics in advertisements. Read about the options for preventing the display of ads on your screen:

Firefox: http://www.ehow.com/info_12146801_there-adblock-addon-ie8.html

Internet Explorer: http://www.ehow.com/info_12146801_there-adblock-addon-ie8.html

Chrome: http://www.ehow.com/info_12059584_adblock-vs-adblock-plus-chrome.html

For more detailed directions on blocking ads, see http://dottech.org/tipsntricks/17516/

Stop animated images from moving, as needed for individual screens

Unless you disable them, animations that blink or automatically cycle through images will stay animated for as long as you stay on any page. To prevent graphics from animating in your web browser window, once the web page has stopped loading and the images start to animate, just hit the ESC key on your keyboard.

That will immediately disable all the GIF animations on that webpage. In order to replay the animated images, reload the page by pressing F5 or Ctrl+R. This feature is already available in most browsers, but not in Google Chrome.

To activate the ESC key option for blocking animation in Chrome, download a browser extension at http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/80588

Prevent animated images from moving, automatically for all screens

Firefox: Download AniDisable extension. See

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/anidisablehacked/

Internet Explorer: Tools > Internet Options > Advanced. Uncheck the box in the Multimedia list that says “Play animations in web pages”

Chrome: This option is not currently available.

[MarjaE]

Monitor adjustments

I always use minimum brightness. If the minimum brightness is too bright to look at, I can’t use that monitor, though I’ve experimented with using plastic screens to block some of the brightness.

Desktop

I don’t use animated desktops.

Firefox

I use about:config fixes to block some animation and block blinking cursors, as well as dozens of extensions and user styles to block more animation. Unfortunately, it’s a constant arms race, and it takes different tools to block each type and/or each source. I think web standards should include easy-to-use-tools to block any type of migraine or seizure trigger, before they enable each kind of migraine or seizure trigger. But no… And blocking or blurring is the only global solution to ptsd or panic attack triggers.

MacOS

I can’t disable all blinking cursors. I try to choose applications which allow users to disable them, such as Firefox (esr) and Thunderbird, instead of Safari and Mail, or which work with the defaults hack, such as NeoOffice, instead of LibreOffice [which crashes anyway] and Pages.

I got surprised by 5 dogs today. Including one barking out of nowhere, which was fucking disorienting, and I couldn’t stop screaming and the dog wouldn’t stop barking.

[mdh]

excuse the pun, but I’ll keep my eyes open for you.

I’m surprised there isn’t some sort of accessibility control panel on more of the browsers, or add on’s or something because it’s hardly an uncommon issue, though severity varies a lot.

[MarjaE]

QuickJava, Prefbar, Stylish, and Ublock Origin are useful Firefox extensions, just not enough. I think Ublock Origin is supposed to survive into 57, but I don’t know about the others.

[LockeCJ]

This may have potential:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/easy-image-blocker/

It appears to be written as a web extension, so it should survive the pending compatibility break.

[MarjaE]

If I want to load images, EasyImageBlocker doesn’t always let me load them. Unfortunately, trying to search Mozilla’s list of extensions is an exercise in frustration. If I try to narrow my search, the page insists on widening it as a any-two-of-the-terms search.

And it doesn’t always let me block them either.

[LearnedCoward]