For many people, plying the Internet can be a pleasant and informative experience. A few keystrokes and a vast trove of information appears on the computer screen. But if that informative website appears with flashing or flickering, it can pose a serious problem for some people with a form of epilepsy.
A team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Trace Center has created a free tool to help Web developers determine whether a site?s content flashes at a rate and intensity that might induce an epileptic seizure.