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Had to stop in the middle of replying to comments when I discovered a major problem:
So for AnimeIowa 2019, I took the "wheelchair user on the go" graphic and edited in what would later be revealed as the visually unsafe Disability Pride flag as a "hubcap" of sorts. You know, the one with the lightning bolts and the black divider lines between the colored stripes that gave people migraines and seizures? (You can see the graphic here if you're curious, but there is a big Eyestrain Warning attached.)
Last I saw, AI was using the graphic I designed for 2021, which was the "wheelchair user on the go" in blue and the person edited to look like Buu-chan the mascot; I thought I would link to that page to share what that previous design looked like. Only, when I got there, the design wasn't Buu-chan using a wheelchair; it was a slightly altered version of the 2019 graphic, with altered stripe colors, but still in the visually unsafe pattern.
I just emailed the Accessibility line, and contacted the current Accessibility head for good measure, who assured me just now that she will talk to our website editor to get things taken care of. But I'm horrified to think of how long that image may have been up on the website and how many people may have been harmed by it, just because I wasn't able to inform AI staff of the danger sooner.
So for AnimeIowa 2019, I took the "wheelchair user on the go" graphic and edited in what would later be revealed as the visually unsafe Disability Pride flag as a "hubcap" of sorts. You know, the one with the lightning bolts and the black divider lines between the colored stripes that gave people migraines and seizures? (You can see the graphic here if you're curious, but there is a big Eyestrain Warning attached.)
Last I saw, AI was using the graphic I designed for 2021, which was the "wheelchair user on the go" in blue and the person edited to look like Buu-chan the mascot; I thought I would link to that page to share what that previous design looked like. Only, when I got there, the design wasn't Buu-chan using a wheelchair; it was a slightly altered version of the 2019 graphic, with altered stripe colors, but still in the visually unsafe pattern.
I just emailed the Accessibility line, and contacted the current Accessibility head for good measure, who assured me just now that she will talk to our website editor to get things taken care of. But I'm horrified to think of how long that image may have been up on the website and how many people may have been harmed by it, just because I wasn't able to inform AI staff of the danger sooner.
