Today's Dev Update sums up our most recent batch of accessibility changes, quality of life updates, and previews some upcoming features to pinglists.

We're pleased to provide an update on the second batch (of several planned) updates in our ongoing efforts to enhance the usability of Flight Rising for all players. As many of you know, we're placing a priority focus on improving accessibility in every place we can, ensuring that everyone can fully enjoy our world and all it has to offer. This update continues our commitment and effort to do right by our entire community, making your journey smoother and more enjoyable. Let's dive in!

Accessibility Updates

We've been rolling out updates as they're completed and tested, so many of these may look familiar to you. In case you missed those, however, we've happily summarized them below! As you can see, a good swath of features received some extra screen-reader love, including:

• Predict Morphology has been updated to include stronger screen reader support and now automatically generates dragon text descriptions based on the selections you've made in each field.
• Several text-based areas of the Game Database, such as item descriptions, categories, and comments from fellow players have been hooked up to be screen reader-friendly.
• We all love expressing ourselves, so we've taken the time to catch-up most text areas of the Clan Profile. Clan biographies, elements, and profile comments should be much easier to interact with for players using screen reader tools.
• A collection of navigability & functional improvements have been rolled out for the Lair & Hibernal Den.
• Screen-reader support has also been extended to the Forums, as well as important sitewide navigability elements:
  • Breadcrumb links
  • Pagination

But we're not done yet! A handful of additional screen-reader integrations are in testing right now and will be rolling out very soon! They include:

• Functions of the Hoard & Vault
• Readability improvements for Dragon Profiles, and...
• Expanded accessibility for the private message system

These changes will all make their way into our Dev Tracker.


Quality of Life Changes

In addition to accessibility, we have also been committed to continuously implementing oft-asked for quality of life improvements whenever we can. Here are some changes that have rolled out in the last few months:

• Like many other cosmetic specialty items, it is now possible to preview the effects of a Reflection Scroll by clicking the item's icon in forum posts, dragon profiles, and other places that support BBcode tags.
• By popular demand, we have created read-only versions of our concluded sitewide events, Dustcarve Dig & Unfathomable Odyssey which are now available through the Encyclopedia. If you missed either limited time event, or simply want to relive each moment, now you can! Player suggestions were instrumental to this project, and we're happy to provide it, considering how important both events have been to the ongoing story of Sornieth!

Pinglists

Very soon, we'll be rolling out a few helpful modifications to the Pinglist system as well! We've been intently watching discussions that will help forge the future of this feature, so it should by no means be considered a stopping point. In the meantime, we felt these were some good steps in the right direction:

• It will soon be possible to sort your pinglists by the following parameters: Pinglist ID, Pinglist Name, and Pinglist Subscriber Count
• A new option is being added for pinglist owners allowing them to clear the list of its subscribers. This will provide pinglists expanded flexibility for use in more ephemeral situations like limited time player-run activities or skin shop sign-ups, and more.
• Pinglist owners will gain the ability to appoint another player (or players) with the newly-implemented role of "List Assist". While owners will still retain full management control over their personal pinglists, List Assists will be granted permission to use the pinglist command (eg. @pinglist-#) for the list they've been invited to assist with.

There's a ton of really exciting stuff in motion within the workshop, but that'll have to be it for today! Thank you for supporting our efforts to keep making Flight Rising even better.

Oh, and by the way...

We have increased the maximum number of lair slots by 5. You can now have up to 225 dragons in your lair!

With the Icepets Team being away earlier in the year, the Token Booth stock was a little stagnate due to no paws being available to stock the new shipments as they came in. Have no worries though, Kaylus was there to put together all the goodie bags for the Terrafrostians who were continung to save up their tokens! While the Winter Token Booth stock has been removed, you can try your luck to fill in your missing collections with the Spring, Summer, and Autumn Goodie Bags. You will want to open them before December 1st, 2024 though since Kaylus is positive there will be a new Winter Stock coming in and we all know that means the other goodie bags will be picked up until the next season.

Last week's round of What Am I has ended.

The item description was: Melt it, slice it, or eat whole. I give you the always versatile cube of cheddar cheese!
The answer was: Cheddar Cheese Cube.

14 out of 14 Ichuans answered correctly.

A new round of What Am I has started. Good luck!

Rooster Guild Link Cost to make: Technically, these are unavailable as customs to users except under specific circumstances.  In the past, staff have hosted contests where custom Roosters were a prize obtainable to users, and the users were able to design their own custom rooster.  We have also raffled off a couple of Rooster customs.  That in mind, typically users will only have access to Gen 2 + Roosters. Celebratory Month: N/A Subbreed Blurb: You can identify Roosters by their signature markings and mutation:  Feathers Filling ,  Feathers Lacing , and  Rooster Tail .  These marking and mutations are considered available to staff only, though in the past custom Roosters have been available as prizes through site contests and raffles.  You can obtain Gen 2's during Rooster events or when the staff breed and sell them.  Gen 2's are also occasionally released by other users who have won custom Roosters from contests.  G

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Happy Birthday to all Gryphixs!

Every Ichumon Species Day Duke will be giving away a Birthday Cake for that day only. Today is no exception! Claim your Gryphix Birthday Cake at the Prize Claim Center!

On Ichumon Species Days you have a 50% chance of getting that Ichumon's Berry from the Luwhut Tree in Fargo's Forest. If you don't have a Gryphix, you can now!

If you have a Gryphix enjoy free healing of HP and Diseases at the Heal Center in Lightest Tower all day long for your Gryphixs.

Sassy Unicorns Subbreed Thread | Guild Link Cost to make: 30 CWP or 20 CWP (Basic) Celebratory Month: November / Novus November Subbreed Blurb: Sassy Unicorns are somewhat unique in that its creation rules are a bit more relaxed than most. You can make the Sassy Unicorn of your dreams with this much customization freedom! The lore behind this subbreed is extensive, rich, and constantly expanding. We are a large and active subbreed with a sea of customs already made. If a custom isn't in your budget, fear not! There is an equally large sea of higher gens to purchase, find in the park, breed, and love! Examples:  

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The Clue will give you a hint to an item.
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