Notices by Laura Kalbag (laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com)

Just updated https://accessibilityforeveryone.site/ with git push because Kitten is the best.

Stay tuned to the @penpot community (I won’t pretend I’m any good at updating my own socials) for more tutorials, articles, videos, templates, and other exciting projects we’ve got in the works. And if you’re a new or existing Penpot user, please let me know what would help *you* get started. I’ll take requests 😉

I’ve been working with the genuinely wonderful Penpot team on educational content and materials to help my fellow designers and developers learn how to use Penpot. It’s so much fun. (They’ve got flex and grid layouts in a visual design tool that exports to real HTML and CSS… yeah, blew my mind too 🤓) And Penpot is open source!

Now that I’ve got a whole row to myself on the @penpot Libraries & Templates page, I thought I should probably update the world on what I’ve been up to for the last few months!

Beach boy

Been building a couple of projects with Kitten in the last month and it’s been so easy to pick up and run with.

Like I’ve even got the author on call 24/7 but I’ve barely had to ask for his help. (And when I have, it’s usually a me problem.) (Though it is very nice when he adds new features that I wanted!)

https://codeberg.org/kitten/app

Just got a live demo of these live captions in action by @aral and they are seriously impressive. Accurate and running locally. https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/112043820673069303

@ChilledGaming ooh, thanks for the suggestion. @aral reposted a version of my post with tags added and I felt daft for not thinking of that 😄

If you want to know more about me or my work, my website is laurakalbag.com, you can find my book, Accessibility For Everyone, at https://abookapart.com/products/accessibility-for-everyone, and here’s a talk I gave a few years ago at New Adventures that really sums up my approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5CvwioUy40

Friends! I’m looking for my next role after nearly three years at Stately. I’m a UX designer who is just as comfortable in front-end development. I also love writing, giving talks, and making videos, so I’m up for dev and design advocacy roles, too.

If I sound like someone you want on your team, please give me a shout!

Where’s the done place for adding your pronouns on Mastodon? I just put mine in my profile field, and thought I might add pronounce at the same time 🤓

Then I realised I already had my pronouns in my bio. I’m bad at this.

It’s so cool that UX Researchers Guild are reading Accessibility For Everyone as part of their book club! I’m really looking forward to joining them for a chat next month.

https://lu.ma/BookGroup1

@thomasfuchs thanks, it can be tricky in Ireland where the population is small and shipping is expensive, but definitely worth a go!

My back really badly needs a new desk chair but I’m struggling to find highly adjustable options suitable for shorter people (I’m 160cm and also have a short torso!) Anyone here tried the S sized Secretlab chair? Or have any suggestions?

I’m not Aeron chair rich, but am willing to invest a bit in something that’ll last and stop my lower back from hating me. Bonus if it doesn’t look like it was designed for a teenage gamer, but function is more important than aesethetics.