+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 20, Issue 08, August 19, 2021. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 08 CONTENTS. SECTION ONE: New references. What's new at the Web Design Reference site? https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/ New links in these categories: 01: ACCESSIBILITY. 02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. 03: COLOR. 04: EVALUATION & TESTING. 05: EVENTS. 06: HTML. 07: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. 08: JAVASCRIPT. 09: MISCELLANEOUS. 10: USABILITY. 11: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. SECTION TWO: 12: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. Sentence Forms (not Mad Libs) By Adrian Roselli. "Whether you call them sentence forms, narrative forms, fill-in-the-blank forms, or Mad Libs forms, you are probably describing a form where the fields are interspersed within words in a sentence. Unlike more traditional forms, laid out with simple pairings of labels and fields, these forms are meant to be read in a flow… Probably do not use this style of form. If you do, get a copywriter on board, make sure to address all the WCAG Success Criteria at Level AA, and then put it in front of users to test. If you plan to use the form across languages then you may need to customize it per language with a copywriter. If you know you will have users who may auto-translate the form, be prepared for them to be confused." https://adrianroselli.com/2021/08/sentence-forms-not-mad-libs.html Common Accessibility Issues and How to Assess Them By AccessComputing, University of Washington. "This page summarizes the accessibility issues demonstrated on the Accessible University (AU) home page. An inaccessible before fixes page and accessible after fixes page are provided to contrast the differences between the sites with explanations…" https://openassessittoolkit.github.io/accessible_u/issues.html How to Audit Your Library Website for WCAG 2.1 Compliance By Rachel Rayl. "The ever-evolving nature of library websites can lead to a mismatched collection of web pages that lack cohesion and, more importantly, lack key accessibility features for users. In Spring 2020, our library's user experience unit audited our library website-excluding third-party vendor sites and services-for WCAG 2.1 compliance. While we based our method around situation-specific barriers, we believe the process we followed will help library staff who may lack time or money to put toward such projects or who run into organizational barriers. We share our process with others in hopes that it helps reduce barriers to identifying website accessibility issues…" https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/weaveux/article/id/218/ Is there an imbalance in the supply and demand for universal accessibility knowledge? Twenty years of UAIS papers viewed through the lens of WCAG By Frode Eika Sandnes. "Some universal accessibility practitioners have voiced that they experience a mismatch in the research focus and the need for knowledge within specialized problem domains. This study thus set out to identify the balance of research into the main areas of accessibility, the impact of this research, and how the research profile varies over time and across geographical regions…" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10209-021-00834-y 10 Accessibility Best Practices By Ferenc Almasi. "Improve your site's accessibility score with these 10 practices…" https://medium.com/weekly-webtips/10-accessibility-best-practices-cb66b666fa0f Inclusive Design 24 Returns September 23, 2021 By Deborah Edwards-Onoro. "…If you're interested in inclusive design and want to learn how to improve the services and products you create, I encourage you to attend this year's Inclusive Design 24 event…" https://www.lireo.com/inclusive-design-24-september-23-2021/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. A Guide to Designing Accessible, WCAG-Compliant Focus Indicators By Sara Soueidan. "This post is a modified, text-only excerpt from my Practical Accessibility video course. I wanted to share this guide to designing accessible focus indicators because focus styles are a recurring discussion I have with designers I work with on most projects, so I thought it would be useful to provide this guide as a helpful reference. This guide is aimed at both designers who want to learn about accessibility considerations for designing focus indicators, as well as developers who want to implement them.…" https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/focus-indicators/ Print Style Sheets By Manuel Matuzović. "Improve user experience by providing a print style sheet for your website…" https://www.htmhell.dev/tips/print-style-sheets/ +03: COLOR. Accessible Contrast Ratios and A-Levels Explained By Team Stark. "All about those A's - your guide to understanding and making use of the ratios that determine your accessible contrast…" https://www.getstark.co/blog/accessible-contrast-ratios-and-a-levels-explained +04: EVALUATION & TESTING. 10 Usability Heuristics Applied to Complex Applications By Kate Kaplan. "Nielsen's 10 usability heuristics can be used to analyze the UX of applications that support domain-specific, complex workflows." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/usability-heuristics-complex-applications/ Inclusive Usability Testing: the Benefits of Inclusive Design By Ben Gilmore. "…While it's great to see inclusive design become more common, it often seems like the philosophy isn't completely embraced. This seems particularly true when designing for people with disabilities. More often than not, only a handful of participants with disabilities are included in user research and usability testing. This doesn't truly represent diversity and doesn't align with what is considered best practice…" https://www.visionaustralia.org/services/digital-access/blog/inclusive-usability-testing-the-benefits-of-inclusive-design How to Statistically Analyze Net Promoter Scores By Jim Lewis and Jeff Sauro. "…In 2021 we tackled one of the big remaining NPS questions-how to conduct three fundamental statistical analyses with the NPS (confidence intervals, tests of statistical significance, and sample size estimation). In this article, we review this research and introduce a new version of our NPS Calculator…" https://measuringu.com/statistical-analysis-nps/ +05: EVENTS. Under the Hood of Sustainable IT + SICT2021 Online September 2, 2021. Online https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=P1ymAq2_Ik2LKl_T8QluqHgdw-tgVKhBgdvcCsoZiwJUMDBRVlJaQ01DRkk0MTlMWkJUVEhUOEFEQS4u Can Everybody See My Screen? September 22, 2021. Online https://www.tpgi.com/webinar-september-22-can-everybody-see-my-screen/ Online Together Fall Summit 2021 October 11-13, 2021. Online https://aneventapart.com/event/fall-summit-2021 Web Directions aaa 2021 October 29 & November 5, 2021. Online https://webdirections.org/aaa/ UX Conference October October 31-November 5, 2021. Online https://www.nngroup.com/training/november/ International Day of People with Disability December 3, 2021. Global https://www.idpwd.com.au/ An Event Apart San Francisco December 13-15, 2021. San Francisco, California, U.S.A. https://aneventapart.com/event/san-francisco-2021 +06: HTML. On the