Vidding Photosensitivity Relay
Vidding is the name for the hobby of editing fan-videos. Photosensitive individuals are often overlooked when creating and sharing content, making it hard for them to find videos that are safe to view. The VPR system seeks to change this by offering information on how to relay content advisories for common photosensitive risks.
If you’d like to read more about what can cause seizures to further help rate your video, please see WCAG (Web content accessibility guidelines) and/or Prodicle’s Photosensitivity Prevention Best Practice Guideline - Production (TODO: find a more reliable url or copy the content elsewhere as it’s no longer public.)
This page is designed as a community-based collaboration. You can submit issues and pull requests to the GitHub repository here.
Risk Factors Collloquially considered “triggers,” these are the types of items associated with physical health risks:
- Blurs
- Colors
- Flashing & Flickering
- Motion
- Peripheral
- Quick Changes
- Strobes
- Textures, Overlays, Patterns, & Particles
- Warps, Kaleidoscopes, & Psychedelia
How to write VPR TL;DR: Briefly describe what visually happens in the video. Use timestamps if risk factors are isolated to one section. Make this visible somewhere before the video starts playing.
- Adaptations for Events
- VPR Examples
- Introduction to Writing VPRs
- Use of the Words Major and Minor
- Videos Without Any Risks
- VPR Variants
Increasing accessibility for photosensitive individuals More solutions to allow people with photosensitivities access to more content.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Is it a bad thing if my video has a lot of risk factors?
- Are you asking me to change my editing style to accommodate others?
- I don't want to use the VPR. Is there another way I can be considerate of photosensitive viewers?