Safe Space and Accessibility Policy Questions

[aceeccentric]

In writing up a draft of the safe space and accessibility policies for the ace community, I've come across a few questions that I want to get some feedback on before sending the draft out for editing (and then posting it for more editing).

• Do we want to include an age note? (Not allowing in anyone under 13 or something.)
• Do we want to include suspensions? (In addition to outright banning.)
• Do we want to include freezing and deleting content? (If something violates the safe space policy, do we want to have notes about freezing threads or deleting comments and posts? What would be the conditions to decide between freezing and deleting? Do we feel there's a difference between deleting entire posts and deleting comments or comment threads? Etc.)

For the accessibility policy, so far I've got:

• Image descriptions required when including images or linking to images
• Putting flashing animations behind a cut with a warning
• Descriptions required when including videos or linking to videos (even if the video has captions)

These are the most common accessibility concerns I've seen. I'm sure I'm either overlooking or unaware of more things, so if there's another concern you're aware of or that would be important to you, please let me know.

Name poll to come soon, also. I just wanted to make them separate posts and not do one right after the other.

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[aceeccentric]

I suppose this particular point is another thing that needs to go to a vote. I'll leave this post up another day or two in case there's any more comments coming and then ask people about it more specifically.