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FOBETEO Day 6 - Listening

Posted by Kim on December 8, 2022, 9:00 am

I'd like to open up the floor for folks to share a tidbit of information, or to bust a common myth, about a disability or chronic illness that they live with. We're listening.

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FOBETEO Day 5 - CSS Accessibility

Posted by Kim on December 7, 2022, 9:00 am

Okay, admittedly this Excellence topic is a bit niche -- but this one goes out to all you style designers out there. :)

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FOBETEO Day 4 - Eye contact

Posted by Kim on December 6, 2022, 9:00 am

The Festival of Being Excellent to Each Other continues, and today's topic is eye contact! You may have seen some people entering the custom gallery image warning "eye contact," and you might have wondered, why is eye contact something that a person would want a warning before seeing?

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FOBETEO Day 3 - Alt text

Posted by Kim on December 5, 2022, 9:00 am

Today, I want to talk about one way to show year-year excellence toward those who are low or no vision.

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FOBETEO Day 2: Flash warnings and eye strain

Posted by Kim on December 4, 2022, 9:00 am

I knew a little bit about flash warnings previously, but I JUST learned about severe eye strain a few weeks ago. I was actually tipped off about it in a users' topic in our Living Library event.

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It's The Most Excellent Time Of The Year (FOBETEO)

Posted by Kim on December 3, 2022, 9:00 am

It's time to be excellent to each other! Public recognition in the form of kudos and reflections on year-round kindness and caring coming your way this week.

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Clarification About What Gallery Images Require Warnings

Posted by Kim on November 28, 2022, 3:30 pm

I've heard some concerns that we've abruptly added a huge number of new warning flags to images, so I want to clarify.

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FINALLY: Warning Reasons for Gallery Images

Posted by Kim on November 28, 2022, 9:00 am

You may have already noticed a new system for gallery image warnings that rolled out over the last couple of weeks. I view this update as a crucially important fix to a long-standing problem of users not having good control of the media that they see on-site.

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Last Official Day of our Living Library AMA event

Posted by Kim on November 20, 2022, 9:00 am

Today is the last official day of our Living Library event. We have a dizzying array of players volunteering to be "books" on so many different subjects!

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November Office Hour Highlights - Map Project Update!

Posted by Kim on November 19, 2022, 2:10 pm

I was presentable enough on Friday that I actually started that office hour by doing a live stream to discuss and demo the map designer project! Saturday got to peep a new NPC design. Plus, all the other questions and answers :D

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