AlisterFeb 17
Laura Kalbag

My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website.

https://accessibilityforeveryone.site

The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.

Resources - Accessibility For Everyone by Laura Kalbag

Read the book online for free.

Jan 27 at 1:16pmWeb
Show threadLaura KalbagJan 27
Even though the book is nearly nine years old, I get regular requests for where to buy it, and universities and colleges still include it on their reading lists.
Show threadMarco HengstenbergJan 27
@laura the subjects you touch in the book do not get old Laura 🤘😎👍
Show threadLaura KalbagJan 27
I’ll add the audiobook files to the site in the next few weeks. And I’m considering other platforms and formats that might make Accessibility For Everyone easier to access. Please let me know if you have a preference, I’m still not 100% sure where’s best to focus my time.
Show threadLaura KalbagJan 27
Mega thanks to @aral for getting the site up and running for me. It uses Kitten! Small Technology Foundation are now the publishers of Accessibility For Everyone, and you can support our teeny tiny not-for-profit organisation at https://small-tech.org/fund-us
Small Technology Foundation: Fund Small Technology Foundation

Show threadAral BalkanJan 27
@laura 💕
Show threadBogomil Shopov - БогоJan 27
@laura pure gold. Thanks a lot Laura!
Show threadGreenSkyOverMe (Monika)Jan 27
@laura I'm sharing that link with the Vision employee network group at work!
Show threadSeth of the FediverseJan 27
@laura I have this book. It was so good. Thanks for making it free so more people can read it. So excited to check out the website.
Show threadSimon Cox Jan 27

@phillycodehound @laura

Nudge Nudge Seth - page 80 - lovely picture of Oscar…

Show threadSeth of the FediverseJan 27
@simoncox @laura 👀
Show threadHippo 🍉Jan 27

@laura that's awesome. Thanks for making this public! Accessibility is something I've recently become interested in and I'm the kind who learns best with a book 

Also, TIL that A Book Apart is not publishing any more 

Show threadLaura KalbagJan 27
@badrihippo I know, so sad right?! I’ve just updated the book site so the homepage has links to all the other ABA books from the Authors’ Collective that are available in some form. Most of them are free and online too.
Show threadHippo 🍉Jan 28

@laura that is so nice, thank you! Probably going to be my reading list for a while 😇

Yeah, I wish ABA was able to continue...hmm, maybe the books can be published in print again someday. I see at least some of them have ongoing projects to bring them up to date

Show threadluna the doggie  Jan 27
@laura that looks great, do you have an EPUB version for offline reading?
Show threadAlan DaltonJan 27
@laura That’s great news, Laura! I’ve added 🆓 to the link to your book on my “Authors Apart” webpage, to help spread the word.
https://alandalton.github.io/Authors-Apart/#:~:text=Accessibility%20for%20Everyone
Authors Apart

A Book Apart is now closed. I’m trying to track the authors’ preferred ways of making their books available.

Show threadAydanJan 28

@laura Just started reading, it's brilliant!

and thank you for explaining what i18n means! I only learned letter-number-letter names were abreviations recently, I already got a11y and l10n, but that one has eluded me

Show threadBurn This Dyspho Out 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 31
@laura Adding it to my reading list, thank you so much for everything you've done!
Show threadPixel DunnFeb 1
@laura please, split sections into subsections >_< too long >_<
Show threadLaura KalbagFeb 3
@hacknorris do you mean split the chapters so each heading is across a different page or something else?
Show threadPixel DunnFeb 3
@laura yeah (sadly you caught asd'er in the wild…)
Show threadLaura KalbagFeb 3
@hacknorris I’ll have a look into how I might make this work. It’s tricky because the content was designed for a book-based reading experience rather than the web!
Show threadPixel DunnFeb 3
@laura i know, i just said that FOR ME it was just too long pages…
Show threadDanchoFeb 6
@laura Looks interesting, not to mention the plethora of other books on the website as well 🔥
Show threadJoachim (he/him, white)Feb 14

@laura

Awesome, thanks a lot! 👍