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Read it for free: Accessibility For Everyone by @[email protected]. h/t @[email protected]. accessibilityforeveryone.site #a11y #BooksNeverDie #ABookApart
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@erikvorhes @beep Not gonna lie, I do wish I had been able to get the ABA version. #aBookApart will always have a special place in my heart!
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Was sad when I heard that #ABookApart closed shop, but just found out they reverted the rights to authors and many have made their books free! https://authors-together.org/
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This A Book Apart authors list is a sweet indie resource keeping hope alive. Bonus points for coloration by meyerweb.com. alandalton.github.io/Authors-Apart/ #abookapart #books #webdesign
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A Book Apart authors list by Alan Dalton is a wonderful indie resource keeping hope alive. Hat tip: @stephaniewalter
https://alandalton.github.io/Authors-Apart/ #webdesign #canon #books #authors #ABookApart -
“Authors Together” by A Book Apart authors
🔗 https://authors-together.org/
> In 2024, A Book Apart closed its doors after publishing a much-loved collection of more than 50 brief books for people who make websites. The rights to each book have reverted to the authors — hi, that's us — and we've put together this semi-official directory to help you find our books in their new homes.
⚓️ https://nicolas-hoizey.com/links/2024/12/05/authors-together/
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“I hadn’t publicly addressed the endings of these businesses, so I figured it was time to do so.”
Jeffrey’s reflections on A List Apart, A Book Apart, and An Event Apart are touching. All three of those endeavors influenced my career, and I’m beyond grateful. It’s sad that it came at a personal cost to him and his partners.
https://zeldman.com/2024/12/05/of-books-and-conferences-past/
#WebDesign #AnEventApart #WebDevelopment #ABookApart #AListApart
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“Authors Together” by A Book Apart authors
🔗 https://authors-together.org/
> In 2024, A Book Apart closed its doors after publishing a much-loved collection of more than 50 brief books for people who make websites. The rights to each book have reverted to the authors — hi, that's us — and we've put together this semi-official directory to help you find our books in their new homes.
⚓️ https://nicolas-hoizey.com/links/2024/12/05/authors-together/
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Of books and conferences past: A maker looks back on things well-made but no longer with us.
https://zeldman.com/2024/12/05/of-books-and-conferences-past/ #ABookApart #AnEventApart #work #publishing #business
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Two books, no longer apart. — @beep #responsivedesign #abookapart
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✩ Tim Brown’s Flexible Typesetting is now yours, for free!
Required reading in elite design programs, it’s sold 1000s of copies and given a new generation of designers fresh mental models for meaningful, multidimensional typography.
https://tbrown.org/notes/2024/10/26/flexible-typesetting/ #WebTypography #ResponsiveTypography #typography #design #WebDevelopment #ABookApart #WebDesign #UX -
Did you know that when I was researching the cover color for Approachable Open Source, I cataloged all of A Book Apart's book covers?
Now that https://approachableopensource.com/ is for sale and has evolved into something more, I thought I'd open source the research.
🌈 https://github.com/approachableopensource/aba-colors
#opensource #abookapart #spectrumofengagement #approachableopensource
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I’d love to see a distributed global community library for the A Book Apart titles once we’ve bought up all the remaining copies from the authors. How great would it be to have a network of people sharing these around now that they’re out of print?
(Maybe each recipient adds a note/name inside the cover before passing it on, and you see this cool community log!)
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Aaand ... I've just discovered that @mrtrimble has already put together an almost-complete list of #ABookApart books with links to read free online, or buy from, or via, the author.
Which has saved me a ton of work. Thanks Ryan!
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Si me hubiera gustado comprar todos los libros de #ABookApart de forma física pero nunca me alcanzo.
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I find it quite sad that the whole #ABookApart series is winding up.
They were a mainstay of my personal learning curve. So much wisdom, experience and knowledge packed into such slender, easily digestible volumes.
On the other hand, it's great that authors like @chriscoyier are making their titles available free to read, or for a negligible cost.
I'll try to curate a few of them here.
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And here are links to the things mentioned in the previous post:
• Accessibility For Everyone site: https://accessibilityforeveryone.site
• Kitten: https://kitten.small-web.org
• Domain: https://codeberg.org/domain/app (not ready for use yet)And reminder that you should use OBS instead of GNOME’s built-in screen recorder if you don’t want to lose work: https://obsproject.com/
#SmallWeb #Kitten #Domain #AccessibilityForEveryone #a11y #book #ABookApart #SmallTechnologyFoundation
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📚 Dear #MastoMind, with #ABookApart no longer selling books, where can I buy #DRMfree copies of their ebooks? All the websites I've found so far only offer the ebooks with DRM. Thanks in advance!
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A Book Apart books were always cheerful companions throughout my Web career.
As a solo designer/developer these little volumes, along with conferences, helped fill in the blanks, and populate a community of mind.
Farewell old friend.https://abookapart.com/blogs/press/a-new-chapter-for-a-book-apart
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I'm really sad to read that A Book Apart is ceasing its publishing activity, which for almost 15 years has built up a collection of must-have reference books.
I still have some of these to read… 😅
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Remember, we’re living through the biggest shift in the history of graphic design. Gotta reexamine our fundamentals and learn together. Pass it on.
This thread paraphrases “Set the body text type”, part of Flexible Typesetting (chapter 4, “Shaping Text Blocks”) from @abookapart. 🧵 20/20
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If you’re using a variable font, now is the time to make subtle adjustments to its anchor point — the way you want it to look by default, when it is not responding to any particular conditions in the browser. 🧵15/20
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For centuries, typographers have produced a smooth text block by subtly adjusting its typeface, font size, line spacing, and measure (line length / width).
Let’s talk about setting body text type. 🧵 1/20
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@aworkinglibrary Today, as she celebrates the quinceanera of her blog, I realised that she also:
- is an awesome people herder [1]
- is one of the forces behind #ABookApart [2]
- is one of the leading lights of Web Design world
- has put in time as a suit (CEO)2/
[1]: https://everythingchanges.us/
[2]: https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/announcing-a-book-apart -
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I just finished reading the #ABookApart book Accessibility For Everyone by @laura. It’s a great book that I totally recommend to everyone who wants to learn how to make the web a more accessible and inclusive place.
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@beep Hey Ethan 👋🏻
I remember giving my first talk to our digital agency after your #ABookApart book released, selling them on our need to embrace #ResponsiveWebDesign.
Glad to see you here!