+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 22, Issue 29, January 10, 2024. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 29 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: EVALUATION & TESTING. 03: EVENTS. 04: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. 05: JAVASCRIPT. 06: MISCELLANEOUS. 07: NAVIGATION. 08: TOOLS. 09: USABILITY. 10: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. SECTION TWO: 11: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. The Change You Wish to See By Accessible Community. "Include images of people with disabilities in your visual content…" https://mailchi.mp/8bcbcf6df568/accessibility-tip-of-the-week?e=1982f777f6 Using the Correct ISO Language Marker Matters By Nic Steenhout. "How to improve ease of content comprehension for screen reader users…" https://nicsteenhout.substack.com/p/using-the-correct-iso-language-marker 16 Lesser Known Accessibility Issues By Matt. "We've been building a bi-lingual application for a public sector organisation in Wales. As part of the process we partnered with the Digital Accessibility Centre (DAC) to audit our code.…" https://toward.studio/latest/16-lesser-known-accessibility-issues What's New in WCAG 2.2 By Nomensa. "From new success criteria focusing on mobile interaction to cognitive disability support, learn how these guidelines pave the way for a more inclusive digital experience…" https://www.nomensa.com/blog/wcag-guidelines-for-accessibility/ Accessibility Options for Floating Action Buttons By Danny Payne. "Floating Action Buttons (FABs) have gradually become a mainstay of modern UI design since they first appeared as part of Material Design ten years ago…" https://danny-payne.scribe.rip/accessibility-options-for-floating-action-buttons-99bdf8146988 Not All Automated Testing Tools Support Shadow DOM in Web Components By Manuel Matuzović. "…Many automated testing tools are a collection of JavaScript functions you run on a page. Most of those rely on querying the DOM. If a tool doesn't consider shadow trees, it only catches accessibility errors in the Light DOM, which may give you a wrong sense of safety and potentially affect your users…" https://matuzo.at/blog/2024/automated-testing-tools-and-web-components Your MVP Must Be Accessible By Dennis E. Lembrée. "Your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Must Be Accessible. Full stop." https://www.webaxe.org/your-mvp-must-be-accessible/ Are Human Powered Accessibility Overlays Really the Future? By Bogdan Cerovac. "I try to open my mind and reflect on some possibilities that would maybe, perhaps, make accessibility overlays viable solutions. Then I quickly find the downsides and don't change my mind about them…" https://cerovac.com/a11y/2024/01/are-human-powered-accessibility-overlays-really-the-future/ Accessibility Widgets Are Not Enough for Screen-Reader Users (Video) By Tanner Kohler. "Website accessibility widgets add little value in making your site accessible to users with partial or no vision." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/accessibility-widget/ #AudioEye Has Dropped Its Suit Against Me By Adrian Roselli. "AudioEye has dropped its lawsuit against me as part of a settlement agreement…" https://adrianroselli.com/2024/01/audioeye-has-dropped-its-suit-against-me.html Sheri Byrne-Haber (disabled) on LinkedIn Overlay Fact Sheet By Sheri Byrne-Haber. "…KKR, an investment company that by definition likely cares more about profits than people with disabilities, drives Level Access' merger and acquisition strategy…" https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sheribyrnehaber_overlay-fact-sheet-activity-7149067021542981632-PedM Legal Update: December 2023 By Ken Nakata. "Happy New Year! 2023 was a good year for Converge Accessibility. In terms of legal cases, however, the year ended fairly quietly…" https://convergeaccessibility.com/2024/01/02/legal-update-december-2023/ +02: EVALUATION & TESTING. Competitive Usability Evaluations By Tim Neusesser. "Data on what works well or poorly on other sites saves you from implementing useless features and guides UX investments to features that your users need." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/competitive-usability-evaluations/ Usability Testing of Inline Form Validation: 31% Don't Have It, 4% Get It Wrong By Edward Scott. "Inline validation can save users time and effort and help them avoid errors. Yet 31% of sites don't have any inline validation at all - increasing friction for users who have errors…" https://baymard.com/blog/inline-form-validation +03: EVENTS. More Success With Mobile App Accessibility Testing, Less Screaming Into the Void January 18, 2024. Online https://accessibility.deque.com/more-success-with-mobile-app-accessibility-testing Is Your Website Accessible? Learn What to Look For and Other A11Y Basics January 26, 2024. Online https://www.eventbrite.com/e/is-your-website-accessible-learn-what-to-look-for-and-other-a11y-basics-tickets-788256776237 AccessU 2024 May 13-16, 2024. Austin, Texas, U.S.A. https://knowbility.org/programs/accessu-2024 Accessible Canada - Accessible World Conference May 27-28, 2024. Montreal, Quebec, Canada https://idrc.ocadu.ca/projects/acaw/ Accessibility Summer Camp June 14, 2024. Online https://www.accessibilityict.org/ +04: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. Card Sorting: The Ultimate Guide (in 2024) By Interaction Design Foundation. "This guide explores card sorting, a user research method to help teams develop intuitive content structures…" https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/the-pros-and-cons-of-card-sorting-in-ux-research +05: JAVASCRIPT. A Lot of What People Use React for Would Be Better Handled With Vanilla JavaScript By Chris Ferdinandi. "…we've been looking at harmful complexity in web projects, and why choosing React for mostly static web projects is bad. These days, it's common for mostly static websites to have a little bit of dynamic content. And while React can add that content, it's often the wrong choice…" https://gomakethings.com/a-lot-of-what-people-use-react-for-would-be-better-handled-with-vanilla-javascript/ +06: MISCELLANEOUS. A Global Design System By Brad Frost. "This is a call to action to create a Global Design System that provides the world’s web designers & developers a library of common UI components…" https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/a-global-design-system/ The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again By Anil Dash. "The new year offers many of the promises of an online moment we haven't seen in a quarter-century…" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/internet-future-about-to-get-weird-1234938403/ Once Upon a Browser By Eric A Meyer. "Once upon a time, there was a movie called Once Upon a Forest…" https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2024/01/02/once-upon-a-browser/ +07: NAVIGATION. How to Make External Links Accessible By Whitney Lewis. "…In this article, we'll go over why most external links should open in the same tab. We'll also go over how to make external links that open in new tabs more accessible including code snippets…" https://blog.pope.tech/2024/01/02/how-to-make-external-links-accessible/ +08: TOOLS. RSS Anything By Jerome. "Transform any old website with a list of links into an RSS Feed…" https://rss.diffbot.com/ +09: USABILITY. User-Experience Quiz: 2023 UX Year in Review By Raluca Budiu. "Test your usability knowledge by taking our quiz. All questions and answers are based on articles that we published last year." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-quiz/ Clippy Returned (as an Unnecessary "AI") By Hidde de Vries "…We've got to think about whether or not the features we build with this are actually useful, actually unnecessary or somewhere in between." https://hidde.blog/redundant-ai/ Oh Shit Banners By Eric Bailey. "…The web has the equivalent, but it's a little trickier. The practice of putting the most important thing at the top of the homepage is still performed, despite persistent misconceptions about 'above the fold' and homepages being where folks enter into news sites…" https://ericwbailey.website/published/oh-shit-banners/ User Experience at the End of Consumerism By Silvia Podesta. "…As UX designers, we are in a position to question why things are the way they are and advocate for a human-centered perspective…" https://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2024/01/user-experience-at-the-end-of-consumerism.php +10: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. Fairness and Kindness Are Not Weaknesses By Gerry McGovern. "…What's the solution? A massive reduction in consumption by rich and middle-class people and the establishment of a fair living standard for all within the context of a sustainable environment." https://gerrymcgovern.com/fairness-and-kindness-are-not-weaknesses/ [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +11: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? Accessibility Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/accessibility.html Association Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/associations.html Book Listings. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/books.html Cascading Style Sheets Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/css.html Color Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/color.html Drupal Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/drupal.html Evaluation & Testing Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/testing.html Event Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/events.html HTML Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/html.html Information Architecture Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/architecture.html JavaScript Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/javascript.html Miscellaneous Web Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/misc.html Navigation Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/navigation.html PHP Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/php.html Sites & Blogs Listing. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/sites.html Standards, Guidelines & Pattern Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/standards.html Tool Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/tools.html Typography Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/type.html Usability Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/usability.html WebWaste & Sustainability Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/webwaste.html XML Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/xml.html [Section two ends.] ++END NOTES. + SUBSCRIPTION INFO. 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