The relatively new “Media Queries Level 5” specifications that came out last year have a solution specifically for this called ‘ - Deepstash

The relatively new “Media Queries Level 5” specifications that came out last year have a solution specifically for this called ‘

The code for it is pretty simple, as it only has two options:

  • ‘reduce’
  • ‘no-preference’

If the user has no-preference, the website will load normally. However, if their computer is sending the ‘reduce’ directive to your site, you can choose to change how motion behaves.

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I don’t suspect many websites will support this for a while, and many others (like this one) don’t have a need to at all. Still, if you’re building a site with a lot of interactive pieces on it, I recommend you check this out and make some small changes to help out those users that specifically request fewer animations.

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