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.
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.