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Animations & Interaction

The Leeds Beckett University website occasionally uses animations to page elements and animated gifs to add impact to pages. If you wish to stop them from playing for accessibility purposes or for personal preference then please see the guidance below. Please note that browsers sometimes change how they operate, so please refer to your browser help files to find their latest information.
How do I turn off animations?

Chrome

Chrome users will need to use browser extensions. Animation Policy from Google will help you set your own preferences.

Microsoft Edge

There is currently no way to disable animations within Microsoft Edge. Users of Edge (Chromium) browser can install the Chrome extensions above and use them.

Internet Explorer

To stop animations on a single page you can just press the 'Esc' key. This will stop the animation on that page. If you wish to restart the animations you need to refresh the page. To permanently disable the playing of animated GIF images, open Internet Options > Advanced tab. Under the Multimedia section, uncheck the Play animations in webpage check-box, click Apply and Exit and then restart your computer.

Firefox

Type about:config in Firefox address bar and hit Enter to open Settings. Search for the image.animation_mode flag and change its value from Normal to None. Once you restart Firefox this will disable animations.

Mekala Soosay

Senior Lecturer

Meg is a university teacher fellow, course leader for BSc (Hons) Data Science, Computing and Business Computing awards and link tutor for The British College Nepal. She has over 20 years of experience working in higher education and six years in industry.

Originally from Malaysia, Meg uses her previous work experience in software training and graphic design to progress to user-centred design thinking, focusing on the users and their needs in each phase of the design process. This has led to various external project collaboration, staff development, teaching and student experience endeavours, applying UX principles and computational thinking to a wide range of modules such as HCI, mobile interaction, database development and data analytics. Students recognise her contribution to teaching, which resulted in her receiving the Student Union's Hidden Hero award. She is currently undertaking a PhD study in Information Visualisation.

Current Teaching

BSc Data Science
BSc Computer Science
MEng Computer Science

Research Interests

Meg is exploring the relationship between interaction and knowledge construction afforded by complex visualisation spaces. She has an excellent track record of knowledge transfer through HEA, JISC and EU funded projects, collaborating with home and International project partners.