OpenConcept has been donating books to the Ottawa Public Library for a couple years now, and so last fall I ordered a bunch of Drupal 7 books anticipating that we'd review them within our team & then order new ones to the library had a fresh copy. I ordered my copy of the Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 (DGD7) back in 2010 along with several others. Well, Drupal 7 took a while to get finalized and so many of the books which were started then didn't actually get finished until after Drupal core had been finalized in January.

It was just after Dries keynote at the Chicago DrupalCon that Benjamin Melançon approached me at the last moment to try to get an accessibility appendix added to the the book. With all of the accessibility enhancements that had gone into Drupal 7 & the emphasis that Dries gave it for the Drupal 8 process, it was clear that this needed to be covered in the book. It's been a long process working on Drupal core and I've had the pleasure to work with Bojhan Somers, Jacine Luisi, Károly Négyesi, Nathaniel Catchpole and Roy Scholten. I've met with other contributors at DrupalCons and DrupalCamps I have attended -- this is definitely a book which is very representative of this broad community. {C}