Fandom Snowflake 2021 #2: The Salon

Day Three of Janus's month provides the second challenge: to make a connection with someone new.

In your own space (or their own space) interact with someone new.

That's halt slightly harder than usual this year, as many of the people that are running this iteration are people who have done it before or done other ones before or been participants in previous or other challenges like this one. There are also some newer faces and names, so I don't think it will be an issue to find new people to interact with.

For something like this, I thought I might borrow an idea from jenett and hold a salon for people to talk in and meet new people and have interesting conversations with them. I'll be borrowing her house rules and useful notes sections as well, if with a modification or two.

Here's a starter question that's on my mind. If you want to talk about something else, feel free.

As a Great Old One when it comes to the World Wide Web, it's been ingrained in me that part of making the Web accessible is providing descriptive text for your links to other parts of the Web. There's no technical wrongness involved in a link that only says "click here" or just "here", but usually, there's a perfectly serviceable description of what is on the other end of the link right there in the same sentence that says "Click here." Expanding the tag to include time description seems like something that could be easily done. Nowadays, I would expect something like that to fall under "good SEO" rather than accessibility, but I'm also a little shirty about the idea that we've optimized the Web for robots and in doing so have made it much more frustrating for humans and their assistive technologies.

Am I just "old man shouts at cloud" about this, or is there progress I haven't seen, or some other thing that I should be posting attention to about this? It seems small and petty, but it also seems fixable with a small and petty amount of work.

( Useful notes )

( House rules )