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I once got very stoned at a house party in college, and for what felt like an hour, I watched three hipsters play a hypnotic game of kick-the-ballon.
Each hipster would stare fixedly at the 3 pink balloons on the kitchen floor. Occasionally, one player would kick one of the balloons. A flurry of further kicks would ensue, but not furious. Sometimes furious, but interspersed long periods of intense consideration. Often there would be false kicks. A hipster would dart toward a pink balloon, but draw back, reconsidering. From time to time, one of them would recoil in embarrassed disappointment, and all the hipsters would laugh.
How I longed to enter the circle of understanding! To see the field of play as these brilliant tacticians were seeing it! I invented bizarre and ludicrous rule sets, but nothing made sense. Was it something to do with the surrounding conversation – kicking every time they heard the word "the"? No… the kitchen had emptied out now, but they were still kicking.
Could there be some obscure markings to distinguish the balloons? I scrutinized the latex contours. No. There were no markings.
I watched those hipsters kick those balloons for what felt like an hour, but was probably only about 10 minutes. Finally, although I knew that it would be weird, I just had to know. I stepped toward them, and they kindly paused their game. Hazily, I spoke: "Excuse me but… I don't understand the rules of your game. WHY do you kick the pink balloons????? What rules are there?"
The oldest hipster smirked, bemused. He pointed. "That one's green."
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My son sorted his gummy bears by colour this morning. According to him there are only two colours.
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#mastodon users, I need help about being more acessible for users with vision impairment. What are the most important guidelines to ensure people can access text put in sites and images, like flyers and newsletters? What's more important, color contrast or alt text? What are the dos and don'ts about accessibility?