What would you do if you had the full creative freedom to experiment, innovate and blend multiple video-editing genres online? This question is what Elise’s website, EZ Productions, fully answers and commits to.

Hello Elise, I’m your second peer reviewer for your site!

Elise’s website is clearly her own cyber-infrastructure—her personal digital space where she maintains total freedom and control over her content and moderation (Campbell). Through short-form videos and experimental video-editing techniques, Elise creates visual experiments that feel lucid, (sub)liminal & almost hallucinogenic and psychedelic, making her website unique and, most importantly, her own.

The content is fantastic in quality and form, contributing to its status as an outlier in the video-editing genre. Because the website clearly presents itself as cyber-infrastructure, it also reads as a personal online experiment through neo-futuristic fonts and colours reminiscent of the cyber aesthetic. As a result, your website has a clear identity.

Even if you may not have a disability yourself, it is important to consider how audiences with different accessibility needs experience your cyber-infrastructure. People with epilepsy, blindness, or deafness may have difficulty accessing your website’s content.

There are several easy ways to make your website more accessible. For example, you can add a trigger warning for flashing lights for epileptic people on your website’s homepage. Additionally, written descriptions of the visual content and audio would make the videos more accessible to those with visual and hearing impairments. These suggestions are common strategies used in the web-animation, video editing, and video game industry.

Overall, I am not asking you to restrict your creativity in your visual experiments—accessibility is not removing or altering existing creativity within content. Rather, it means adapting existing creative content to welcome a wider audience, including people with disabilities—like bakers adding sprinkles to their cupcakes.

Your cyber-infrastructure also has some unfinished aspects, including the noticeable use of a WordPress template and the lack of subcategories in your navigation menu. Navigation is key to online visual conciseness and communication, and you can improve it by organizing your content into subcategories, including but not limited to mini-assignments, assignments, update/process posts, videos, and unedited videos. You can also personalize your cyber-infrastructure by redesigning the website’s layout until any traces of the original template are gone. The redesign can arguably become another visual experiment if you incorporate design elements that pop, flash or include accessories that evoke your psychedelic visual identity.

Your website clearly shows your experimental work and videos. With a few accessibility and design updates, it can communicate more clearly and engage a wider audience.

Campbell, Gardner. “A Personal Cyberinfrastructure.” EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 44, no. 5, Sept/Oct. 2009, pp. 58–59, https://er.educause.edu/articles/2009/9/a-personal-cyberinfrastructure.