Add draft post: I made my book accessible by writing it like software

[benbalter]

Update (2026-08-17) — now that the flagship went live at /2026/08/17/ (not the /2026/08/03/ this draft assumed) and got a full human rewrite:

• Back-link fixed /2026/08/03/ → /2026/08/17/ (also clears the failing prose-quality broken-internal-link Vitest check).
• File redated 2026-08-10 → 2026-08-24 so the follow-up sorts/reads after the flagship.
• Facts synced to the rewrite: 576-page count, Ace by DAISY canonical URL.
• Light voice pass toward the flagship's more concrete tone (named the discernible-link-text + declared-language axe checks) and linked the book's accessibility statement — this post is the "dedicated deep dive" the flagship promises.
• Still published: false. On publish, flip to true and hyperlink the flagship's "a dedicated deep dive is coming" (line 149) to /2026/08/24/i-made-my-book-accessible/.

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What

Adds a behind-the-scenes blog post: "I made my book accessible by writing it like software." It's the follow-up teased at the end of #1949 ("How I over-engineered my book") — the argument that accessibility falls out of two upfront decisions (authoring in semantic Markdown, gating the build on automated a11y checks) rather than a last-minute audit.

src/content/posts/2026-08-10-i-made-my-book-accessible.md

Draft, not live yet

• published: false — keeps it out of listings, the feed, sitemap, OG generation, and route generation (getStaticPaths filters on isPublished) until flipped. Flip to published: true when ready to ship.
• Dated 2026-08-10 so it reads as a follow-up to the flagship's Aug 3; adjust on publish if the real date differs.

How it relates to the flagship post

• Links back to /2026/08/03/how-i-over-engineered-my-book/ instead of re-deriving the "wrote it like software" premise, so the two posts complement rather than repeat.
• Ported from a private book-repo draft (benbalter/book #1965, now superseded — safe to close) and trimmed: distinct opening hook, the shared "book as build target" setup collapsed to one linked sentence.
• Congruence fixes vs. the flagship: aligned a stray "three hundred pages" to the book's real ~576-page count, tied the 6×9 aside to the flagship's page-count check, and kept CI cadence as "every build / every release" (not "every push").

Follow-up (one manual step, intentionally deferred)

The flagship footnote forward-references this post in prose but is not hyperlinked yet — linking a live post to a published: false draft would 404. Once this merges and flips to published: true, add the reciprocal link from the flagship footnote's "getting its own post" to /2026/08/10/i-made-my-book-accessible/.

Checks

• Vale: 0 errors, 0 AIPatterns hits. Remaining remark warnings are dictionary noise (WCAG, EPUB, reflows) and the incrementing ordered-list style used elsewhere on the blog.

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