LINKLIST

♿ DISABILITY & ACCESSIBILITY

Access Guide: A user-friendly introduction to web accessibility.

National Center on Disability and Journalism: Disability Language Style Guide: A style guide for discussing and writing about disability and disabled people, with explanations. Available in English, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian.

Not BR: A dyslexia-friendly tool that is definitely not the pay-to-use "bionic reading". Converts text to the OpenDyslexie font, with customisable adjustments like weight and line spacing

Solaria: What I've Learned About Web Accessibility as a Dyslexic, Sighted, Mouse User: A helpful, interestingly formatted article on basics.

The Ultimate Motherfucking Website: the absolute bare basics 'what is web accessibility?'

🍳 LIFE SKILLS

12 things to do instead of calling the cops: A simple, screenreader-accessible print zine.

supercook: Put in what ingredients you have, and it'll give you a list of online recipes that can be made with only those. Tragically, it does involve links to recipe websites, which are mostly terrible.

Thing and Stuff Wiki: "An organically evolving personal wiki knowledge base" with an "on-the-fly taxonomy". I haven't explored it a great deal yet, but it seems very interesting.

📖 MEDIA ACCESS

Against intellectual property: an essay by Brian Martin.

Anna's Archive: A mirror to multiple media access tools and databases like Sci-Hub and LibGen.

cobalt tools: A tool to download media from the internet (eg, YT videos) with 0 trackers.

Directory of Open Access Journals: What it says on the tin. It's been active for over 20 years, and has a sleek but not obnoxious interface.

Eclectic Library: A directory of some scanned book page images.

i have no tv: A collection of free-to-view documentaries on the web, without the far-right conspiracy theory nonsense that such collections are often heavily weighted towards.

library genesis: An ebook downloader with a reasonably extensive catalogue of STEM textbooks, and many other mass-market books, as well.

Marginalia Search: A simple search engine that tries to turn up non-commercial results. You won't get results you could find easily with Google - but you'll also gets results you couldn't find easily with Google. If you like DuckDuckGo, you may just love Marginalia as a secondary search engine.

openverse: Creative Commons and public domain image and audio searching.

The Anarchist Library: A frequently-updated collection of anarchist texts in over 20 languages.

Public Domain Review

Springer Open: A number of Springer journals are open access, and here's where to read them.

📝 WRITING

VWrites: Maintaining the Enclosure: A list of sorts that can help work out why you're having trouble writing.

careful words: Self-describes as "a little bit more than a thesaurus". A charming tool.

cru’s D&D Reading Room: A World Building Checklist: This is a truly extensive list of worldbuilding questions that I highly recommend.

fantasynamegenerators: A wonderful website managed and developed by one person. It has generic name generators, and in-depth ones, like for specific species from Star Trek and Star Wars.

Tip of my Tongue: This is a tool developed to help people find the specific word they're looking for. It doesn't always work, but it's useful to be able to try.

Star Wars Fic Reference Wiki: [FULL DISCLOSURE: I am a part of this project.] Unfortunately hosted on Fandom at present, this is a project to compile Star Wars information in a more writer-friendly, and less hostile, way than Wookieepedia does. It includes guides to disability in Star Wars, and a list of LBGTQIA+ Star Wars characters. Why not come over and take a look, and maybe even lend a hand?

🕸️ WEBMASTERY

catbox: file hosting

[codepen] swaying photo gallery: a beautiful layout.

Dither it!: Reduces image file sizes by dithering them.

HTML cheat sheet: Also includes CSS and JavaScript.

Kalechips' Layout thrift store: Some absolutely incredible HTML templates.

Metalvalley's codes: Some code snippets!

silly HTML colors: This is really more of a 'just for fun' link, but it can be used in coding. It's very entertaining.

Solaria's HTML Color Map: Self-described as "139 interactive HTML colors organized with like colors near each other!" They're circles.

Cheaters JavaScript: A few JavaScript snippets/tutorials by Solaria.

Tepppy's Layouts: a few very neat HTML layout templates, coded with love and intended to be endlessly customised.

🗃️️ MISC

Listen to Wikipedia: live changes to Wikipedia, transposed into music.

Warp factor 2, Mr. Sulu: eatsteas's Sulu shrine.

genders.wtf: A collection of unusual options given for 'gender' dropdowns in online forms.

Gwern.net: A fascinating collection of personal essays by Gwern Branwen.

Neal.fun: A lot of fun and interesting tools and games. Educational but not demeaning.

Intersex: The Transgender Dictionary: A little 'intersex 101' and roundup of other useful links.

The Pudding: "A digital publication thatwill make you fall in love with data."

Garden of Madeline zines: zines by Madeline.

Jenny Holzer Truisms: A collection of some of Holzer's 'truisms' by the University of Texas.

🖇 OTHER LINKLISTS️

My video essay recommendations: here. My recommendations of other personal websites: here. My list of Star Wars writing resources: here.

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