Accessibility Filters
Acessibility has always been one of Teia's core values: Our goal is to make Teia a safe and comfortable place for everyone. On the other hand, artistic freedom is extremely important for any artist platform, of course. While Teia wants to be a platform for all art forms, including ones that incorporate flashing animations, sexual depictions and violence, we want to give users the option to hide these kinds of content that can cause harm and distress to some people.
Here is what we came up with:
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While minting, artists are asked to use the options for NSFW and Photosensitrive content properly. Per default, pieces classified as NSFW will be displayed with a blur filter applied, PHOTOSENSITIVE pieces additionally get dimmed to counter the flickering animation.
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Users can turn the filtering of NSFW and/or PHOTOSENSITIVE on or off in the user config page. These settings will be stored locally in your browser, so your browser will remember your choice.
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Additionally, Teia's copyminting Team will be able to manually add pieces to both categories if needed. Pieces with the tag "nsfw" are also be automatically added to the NSFW category and can be removed from that classification if needed.
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If you are unsure how to classify your pieces or want to add an old piece of yours to one of the accessibility categories, get in touch with the content team on Teia's discord!
We are aware that blurring pieces in Teia's feeds and overview pages reduces the visibility of said pieces and we will try to counter this by offering dedicated NSFW/PHOTOSENSITIVE feeds, dedicated shill channels on discord and we will keep on looking for more ways to promote them.
- NSFW (=Not Safe for work) for our purposes means crass and very (!) sexual imagery and depictions of violence or gore, especially content that can be considered trauma-triggering. While of course these topics are an important part of the human experience and therefore important to artistic expression, we want to make sure that people who have experienced trauma can use Teia safely.
- PHOTOSENSITIVE means artworks that that are rapidly flashing, high contrast with vibrant colouration, pieces with rhythmic or unsettling movement, and vibrating or undulating visuals. These types of animations can potentially cause pain, disorientation, injury, even death for those with conditions aggravated by certain visual stimuli. Conditions include Epilepsy, Migraine, Sensory Processing, Acquired or Traumatic Brain Injury (ABI/TBI), and Vertigo.
For Artists whose main pages get heavily blurred by this policy, we implemented a way to create more user friendly profile links that don't blur your pieces per default but will first ask the visitor to confirm that they are fine with viewing your profile without blur. For example NSFW artists can use this modified link in their linktree or whenever linking to their Teia profile.
Simply put "?yolo" at the end of your profile link like this: https://teia.art/elbi?yolo
