Digital publishing. Content Architect. CSS Fan, stylesheet development, #a11y.
I’ve been around the W3 specifications block since I was a kid. (Really!)
Dog mom and violist.
Hi, Jean Kaplansky - former ebook standards (#eprdctn) person now working in #a11y as a Technical Writer at deque.com.
I don't get to all the sites much anymore. I've had it with twitter. Trying mastodon. Don't know if it'll stick.
My favorite tool of the moment: Snagit (Tech Writer in me). Starting to really like Visual Studio Code... Anxious to figure out some cool stuff for tech docs on Github - but hoping to do so in a way that's a11y and doesn't involve Jekyll, which doesn't go quite as far as I want it to (no multiple outputs from your single-source). If I have to do true single-source writing, oXygenXML, hands down.
I'm OLD school. Like 1995, was working at Arbortext on SGML stylesheets old school when this new-fangled XML stuff came along. I've flipped back and forth from consulting to educational publishing and finally decided to go back to my roots: small/medium software company. I also spent 3.5 years working for a company HQ'd in India and learned gobs of good stuff about working with people across time zones and cultures.
I don't like DITA. I'm OK with JATS/BITS, and I've spent A LOT of time doing content/information architecture directly in semantic HTML5. I miss DocBook.
I also miss typography, which is where I got my start. As in before, there was a Quark or Indesign. I learned the craft, not the tools. This was my leaping off point to learning how to automate good typography for large-scale publications across multiple delivery platforms. I would not be where I am now if I had not learned the basics.
I'm primary a lurker on DEV.to. But I do like to read the posts and keep up with the esoteric.
I haven't been a developer proper in years, but I like to keep myself knowledgeable enough to be dangerous in an IDE.
BTW - IRL? I'm a concert violist. No. Really.
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Hi, Jean Kaplansky - former ebook standards (#eprdctn) person now working in #a11y as a Technical Writer at deque.com.
I don't get to all the sites much anymore. I've had it with twitter. Trying mastodon. Don't know if it'll stick.
My favorite tool of the moment: Snagit (Tech Writer in me). Starting to really like Visual Studio Code... Anxious to figure out some cool stuff for tech docs on Github - but hoping to do so in a way that's a11y and doesn't involve Jekyll, which doesn't go quite as far as I want it to (no multiple outputs from your single-source). If I have to do true single-source writing, oXygenXML, hands down.
I'm OLD school. Like 1995, was working at Arbortext on SGML stylesheets old school when this new-fangled XML stuff came along. I've flipped back and forth from consulting to educational publishing and finally decided to go back to my roots: small/medium software company. I also spent 3.5 years working for a company HQ'd in India and learned gobs of good stuff about working with people across time zones and cultures.
I don't like DITA. I'm OK with JATS/BITS, and I've spent A LOT of time doing content/information architecture directly in semantic HTML5. I miss DocBook.
I also miss typography, which is where I got my start. As in before, there was a Quark or Indesign. I learned the craft, not the tools. This was my leaping off point to learning how to automate good typography for large-scale publications across multiple delivery platforms. I would not be where I am now if I had not learned the basics.
I'm primary a lurker on DEV.to. But I do like to read the posts and keep up with the esoteric.
I haven't been a developer proper in years, but I like to keep myself knowledgeable enough to be dangerous in an IDE.
BTW - IRL? I'm a concert violist. No. Really.