Allows you to give the visitors of your site the option to change the font size. Laura kalbag is a freelance web designer from brighton who has earned. Christmas is a time for giving, but know what youre giving to whom. Jeremy osborn is a design educator based in massachusetts. Accessibility for everyone interview with laura kalbag. We make an app called better that protects you while youre browsing the web. Sure, you could wear fingerless gloves or a sweatervest, but why settle for garments that make you look like you cant afford fingers or sleeves. Aquent gymnasium where he has produced numerous online courses for web designers, developers and marketing professionals. Carlson information technology systems and services university of minnesota duluth duluth, mn u. Laura is currently calling for better web accessibility for people with disabilities and we caught up with her to find out more. If you host your jekyll site on github pages, for example, youre good to go. A collection of podcasts episodes with or about laura kalbag, often where they are interviewed.
Our mission is to help developers, designers, and anyone using github collaborate efficiently. She can be seen up and down the country speaking at major web design events and has frequently appeared in net magazine. With 5 years of experience in health communications, i enjoy crafting clear, concise and compelling copy that inspires audiences to act. Accessibility for everyone by laura kalbag or really, anything amazing from a book apart. Shes one third of small technology foundation, a tiny twopersonandonehusky notforprofit organisation. Now its time to see your new design process in action. Funkify extension to experience the web through the lens of users with different abilities and disabilities. Gitscout a beautiful and optimized github issues experience. Getting started with web accessibility dev community. To solve the most critical performance problems with the biggest impact, start with images. My own preference is a github repo full of markdown files with notes on books, blog posts, and whatever else i want. Contrast desktop app mac i want to see like the colour blind chrome extension mac win nocoffee chrome extension mac win sim daltonism desktop app mac ios wave toolbar chrome extension mac win wcag 2. A list of people, companies, and meetup groups to follow in web standards and accessibility.
Blogroll bringing the blogroll back, piping hot and super fresh. If you are storing the folder on your desktop, you could copy and paste this line instead. A brilliant brilliant app for compiling preprocessors and other things. Every time developers talk about wordpress, their market share percentage changes. Its a special week this week on unfinished business as im joined by not one, but two regular cohosts, ashley baxter and laura kalbag. I was discussing with stephane deschamps, a lovely, funny and talented guy about my lack of knowledge on how to make webgl accessible and how i could avoid people creating lots of. Available from a book apart in paperback or ebook, or in audiobook on audible.
A beautiful and optimized github issues experience for macos. Trying to center a textoverflow ellipsis using css flexbox. Interview with web accessibility champion laura kalbag. Im a friendly designer originally from the uk, now living in ireland. Drew mclellan talks to an expert on the subject, laura kalbag, to find out. Laura gave a crystal clear presentation of the state of tracking and surveillance through carefully select examples, and gave a number of tips to mitigate as best we can tracking and fingerprinting versus convenience, and to protect ourselves as individuals. Made in scotland from girders with ashley baxter and laura kalbag. Towards the end of laura kalbags excellent talk on accessibility at last nights frontendlondon meetup, a question was asked about how to deal with when javascript updated the page. Dec 01, 2017 accessibility testing web accessibility is the degree to which a website is usable by as many people as possible laura kalbag posted on december 1, 2017 in accessibility, community, engineering, wordpress for enterprise. We kick off with an issue exploring topics very close to our hearts ethics, privacy and security, because these issues reach into all our lives, from our personal use of the web through. Gitscout is a beautiful github issues experience for macos try it now. Im still a little bit fearful of terminal, so github for mac provides me with an interface that helps me understand what im really doing with git. Sim daltonism mac app that overlays anything on your desktop to give you various color blindness perspectives this is my favorite app stark contrast checker and color blind simulator for sketch, figma and xd.
Your work is important and you deserve the best tools so please help us improve gitscout by sharing your feedback on our github. See chapter 2 of choosing and using web fonts by laura franz on for a tutorial on using typekit fonts. Laura kalbag discusses the gift of personal data we give to big tech when we share information on its platforms, and how reviving ye olde personal website can be one way to stay in control of the content we share and the data we leak. Jul 19, 20 laura kalbag had a fantastic idea on how to transform these kind of projects into a winwin. Such a project would give the students an opportunity to gain valuable experience and help them transition into freelancing, and the client would get good quality work, despite the modest budget. New adventures conference 2020 afterthoughts david. And i use it for my personal site already, but right now for site. Nov 23, 2018 laura kalbag speaks about indie design at wordcamp, london. My own preference is a github repo full of markdown files with. Accessibility for everyone interview with laura kalbag sep 19, 2017 by chris mears in mind candy we speak to laura kalbag about her upcoming book accessibility for everyone and learn more about how each one of us can make our products more accessible. One of my previous mac s was purchased refurbished from apple, and id had no issues with it. If youd like to learn how to setup your site to deploy and build on something like heroku, i wrote about that.
One of the things ive been learning about is hugo, which is a static site generator that is written using go. The branding store logo design, web design and ecommerce. Trying to center a textoverflow ellipsis using css. Responsive issues community group ricg chair mat marquis helps us make smart decisions about images and shows us the swiftest way to improve a websites performance. Laura kalbag is a freelance web designer from brighton who has earned herself a reputation as a rapidly rising star in the industry. Gitscout provides a beautiful new experience to stay organized and get your work done. Adobe edge web fonts a subset of typekit that is free.
Built this little app in a weekend and it was super fun to finally work on a macos app after all these years i could scratch this one off my bucket list. This method will only work if you have an external build process. Sign up for your own profile on github, the best place to host code, manage projects, and build software alongside 50 million developers. More than a dozen open source tools present on github.
When viewing all of this through a critical lens, talk about tracking and gathering learner data for analysis immediately brings with it the need to talk of a range of considerations around ownership, ethical use, privacy, security, and data governance. Accesslint a github app that finds accessibility issues in your pull requests. Sometimes coding requires working in cold environments. Hes also a technical advisor at a list apart and a former member of the jquery mobile team also from this author image performance by mat marquis. A few great tools came out this month, too, including. Oct 06, 2015 it all started during the kiwi party 2014 conference, while listening to laura kalbags talk about guidelines for top accessible design considerations. Adobe creative cloud subscriptions come with the portfolio plan. Indie is aral balkan and laura kalbag, two european designers who build. The other three speakers were liz jackson, florence okoye and tatiana mac and they made this panel a career highlight for me. Google accessibility resources to help everyone access and enjoy the web.
Accessibility is social justice an interview with laura kalbag about her book, accessibility for everyone. Transparency and collaboration in an open software repository laura dabbish, colleen stuart, jason tsay, jim herbsleb school of computer science and center for the future of work, heinz college carnegie mellon university 5000 forbes ave. Im laura kalbag, a british designer living in ireland, and cofounder of small technology foundation. Designing for accessibility isnt just about designing for specific disabilities or saying no one who uses our product is blind lol its about thinking through the range of ways that humans might be impaired and accounting for them in the design process. Sep 18, 2017 our top picks for web designers this month are books. Interview with web accessibility champion laura kalbag heart. You can also find only the updates posts and labs posts on their own pages. Folks i have met andor followed from afar who have been a huge influence on my career in some way, shape or form. Mat marquis tweets prolifically, makes websites for a living at bocoup, and chairs the responsive issues community group. Best laura kalbag podcasts podcasts withabout laura. Available from the app store and the mac app store. In this walkthrough, well build a feature for a mock art store, complete with live demo and github repository. There wasnt really time to go through it, and really its something best shown with a demo. To my surprise, there was a refurbished 2018 macbook pro with a bigger hard drive, faster processor, and more ram than my previous mac.
Laura kalbag is a british designer living in ireland, and author of accessibility for everyone from a. Its often hard to find objects which will help combat that pesky chill. Funkify extension to experience the web through the. A trackerblocking privacy tool for safari on iphone, ipad, and mac. We work with each one of them to ensure wp migrate db pro continues to work on their platform as both products evolve. This release is a rollup of all updates and fixes since our 2017. Painlessly migrate your wordpress site with wp migrate db pro. At small technology foundation, laura works on a web privacy tool called better blocker, and initiatives to advocate for and build small technology to protect personhood. Laura and i are happy to announce that better blocker version 2018. A mac app that lives in the menu bar, and when you click on it you get a view from your camera, to check yo face before joining a video call. In a bumper episode, we talk about cakes, brightly coloured fizzy drinks and yorkshire pudding burgers. And if youre a person in tech who is starting to care about justice, equality, ethics and so on, please please read the exceptional advice at the end of the article. Laura kalbag is a british designer living in ireland, and author of accessibility for everyone from a book apart. Let laura kalbag guide you through the accessibility landscape.
Arc toolkit by the paciello group, chrome extension macwinlinux. After talking to my wife, the buy button was clicked. Although wp migrate db pro is designed to work with all web hosts, big and small, we have strong relationships with the following web hosting companies. Migration from wordpress to jamstack sarah drasner. A book about building inclusive and accessible websites. Dictionary database with future api and bot integrations. Color oracle is free software that works on windows, mac osx and. Theyre great reads and both are concise books so theyre not hard to squeeze in. We have an app called better blocker thats on sale on the ios and macos app stores. Some may be willing to use git with a graphical interface, but not with terminal. Towards the end of laura kalbag s excellent talk on accessibility at last nights frontendlondon meetup, a question was asked about how to deal with when javascript updated the page. When im not at work, you can find me hiking the billy goat trail, visiting a virginia winery and or catching up with friends at happy hour.
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