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

@aral you have massively underplayed the amount of work you did on this site. You took what other smart devs had made for generating a book from an epub, made it work using Kitten, and put up with my feature requests.

I was only able to continue working on the design and dev because Kitten is such a joy to work with 😸

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

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.

The good people at @dequesystems have put my #axe-con presentation, Design for Everyone, live for all! (With captions and American Sign Language.)

This is one of my favourite talks. It covers accessible and rights-respecting design, sort of a culmination of many of my other talks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAL7ac40gAc

If you missed Penpot Fest a few weeks ago, many of the talks are already live on @penpot’s Peertube https://peertube.kaleidos.net/w/p/ax41QLcz6tfSvCv7RSmfXp

Yesterday we had to say goodbye to my best friend, my fluffy shadow, my sweet grumpy companion of 13 years. Osky will always be the bestest boy. I miss him so much.

Please give your dog friends extra tummy rubs and carrots from me.

⏰ Live in 15 minutes!

https://peertube.kaleidos.net/w/k58AQVU4Gct9ZcfaDWQwCy

New Mogwai album day 🎉

I’ve been following David’s work on the White Meat zombie film for a while and this is such a cool project to back:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/daviddylanthomas/white-meat-appetizer

Designers: where do you go to learn and stay updated on design? Are there specific sites or feeds you find valuable? Anywhere you’d recommend to beginners starting out in the field?

The last @penpot hands-on of 2024 is in 1.5 hours!

I’ll be recreating a UI design from start to finish… if all goes well 😆

https://mastodon.laurakalbag.com/@penpot@fosstodon.org/113634228291086680

I’m speaking at axe-con next February! It’s free, online, and the line-up is fabulous.

Register now so you don’t forget to join…

https://www.deque.com/axe-con/

@pictor yes! I have my own instance. So if it didn’t work, I’d be the only person able to see my emoji!

@valis2030 Fab. This is very achievable with Penpot right now @penpot

@valis2030 great suggestion! Yes, borders on one-side aren’t supported yet, but there are ways you can currently fake it with Flex layouts. Where would you usually use borders like this? In the last demo I used them to separate layout areas like under the navigation… @penpot

Next week I’m doing a live @penpot hands-on session where we’ll create a UI from start to finish. But I need some ideas!

If there’s any Penpot specifics you want to learn, please add your suggestions. Otherwise I’ll be forced to come up with my own weird ideas…

https://community.penpot.app/t/ui-design-with-penpot-hands-on-demo-dec-11/7221

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@petko dried my throat out!

Today I learned the lesson that dehumidifiers and live streams are not a winning combination.

@nclm thank you!