Post #159811

2026-01-27 13:16 UTC

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.

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@laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com 2026-01-27 13:16

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.

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@laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com 2026-01-27 13:16

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.

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@laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com 2026-01-27 13:17

Mega thanks to @aral@mastodon.ar.al 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

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@bogo@hapyyr.com 2026-01-27 14:12

@laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com pure gold. Thanks a lot Laura!

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@GreenSkyOverMe@ohai.social 2026-01-27 14:34

@laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com I'm sharing that link with the Vision employee network group at work!

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@phillycodehound@indieweb.social 2026-01-27 15:04

@laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com 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.

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@badrihippo@fosstodon.org 2026-01-27 17:46

@laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com 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 :blobcatreading: Also, TIL that A Book Apart is not publishing any more :blobcatsob:

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@lunareclipse@snug.moe 2026-01-27 21:10

@laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com that looks great, do you have an EPUB version for offline reading?

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@Alan@alpaca.gold 2026-01-27 21:11

@laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com 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

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@cxxvii@aus.social 2026-01-28 02:09

@laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com 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

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@Testoceratops@disabled.social 2026-01-31 03:13

@laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com Adding it to my reading list, thank you so much for everything you've done!

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@hacknorris@mstdn.social 2026-02-01 11:49

@laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com please, split sections into subsections >__<

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@avak5@equestria.social 2026-02-06 14:42

@laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com Looks interesting, not to mention the plethora of other books on the website as well 🔥

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@joachim_kreativ@literatur.social 2026-02-14 19:47

@laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com Awesome, thanks a lot! 👍

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@stvfrnzl@mastodon.online 2026-06-01 12:21

@laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com will you also release an epub version of the book? 🙂

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