======================================================= September 12, 2002 Vol.1 #10 What's new at the Web Design Reference site? ============ New Links In These Categories ============ 1. ACCESSIBILITY 2. CASCADING STYLE SHEETS 3. EVALUATION & TESTING 4. EVENTS 5. INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE 6. JAVASCRIPT 7. MISC. 8. NAVIGATION 9. STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS 10. USABILITY 11. XML ======================================================= 1. ACCESSIBILITY Mini FAQ About The Alternate Text Of Images By Ian Hickson Computer mouse for the blind developed by Reuters ======================================================= 2. CASCADING STYLE SHEETS Revisiting "Table Layouts, Revisited" By Bill Mason A response/reaction to Zeldman's recent reflections. Font Sizes & Font-Family By Sam Foster ======================================================= 3. EVALUATION & TESTING How to Conduct Usability Evaluations for Accessibility Methodology Guidelines for Testing Websites and Intranets With Users Who Use Assistive Technology By Kara Pernice Coyne and Jakob Nielsen (Please note that this is an acrobat PDF file. If you do not have acrobat you can download the acrobat viewer from . This download is for people who do not have Acrobat installed on their computers. It allows you to open and view a PDF file. Additional Adobe free tools are available to assist visually impaired users at ) Graphical Presentation of User Profiles By Tomi Kankainen and Jarmo Parkkinen "GUP is a technique for creating visual representations of system users. Just as storyboards are 'visual scenarios', GUP can serve as a 'visual persona'. As useful as personas are, they are primarily textual. GUP and variants offer a 'user at a glance' format that complements the rich story a persona and scenarios can communicate. The rest of the between project looks pretty cool too." (Please note that this is an acrobat PDF file. If you do not have acrobat you can download the acrobat viewer from . This download is for people who do not have Acrobat installed on their computers. It allows you to open and view a PDF file. Additional Adobe free tools are available to assist visually impaired users at ) ======================================================= 4. EVENTS Workshops Fall Semester 2002 Information Technology Systems and Services University of Minnesota Duluth Duluth, Minnesota U.S.A. Unless otherwise specified, workshops are for UMD faculty, staff and students. WebdevShare 2002 October 6-10, 2002 Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana U.S.A. Society for Technical Communication Conference May 18-21, 2003 Dallas, Texas U.S.A. Graphics Interface 2003 June 11-13, 2003 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada The First Annual Workshop on HCI Research in MIS Association for Information Systems December 14, 2002 Barcelona, Spain ======================================================= 5. INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE Information Architecture: Carrying out a Classification Situation Analysis By Gerry McGovern Strategies for Categorizing Categories By User Interface Engineering Critical Architectural Junctures By Louis Rosenfeld ======================================================= 6. JAVASCRIPT Regular Expressions in JavaScript By David Andersson Introduction to JavaScript By Robert Crooks ======================================================= 7. MISC Building the Beast: Talking with Peter Morville By George Olsen "When we wrote the first edition, we had relatively little experience. Most of our massive IA projects at Argus came afterwards." ======================================================= 8. NAVIGATION Search Interfaces By Liz Danzico "This investigation is about the ordering and structure of the search fields themselves, not the results, which have been the topic of much discussion already." Navigate on the right? The jury is still out By William Hudson Place Navigation on the Right By Usability.gov Comment: Left or top navigation is usually the first thing read by a screen reader. So for accessibility right side vertical navigation is an alternative to top or left navigation if you want to avoid adding a way to skip navigation links. Right side vertical navigation also reduces wrist movement for mouse users. - llc Concepts for Improved Visualization of Web Link Attributes By Harald Weinreich Winfried Lamersdorf ======================================================= 9. STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS AnySizeDesign By allmyfaqs.com Answering the questions: What size monitor screen or browser window should I design for? How do I design my site for any size browser? Evolution Trumps Usability Guidelines By Jared M. Spool ======================================================= 10. USABILITY Being User-Centered When Implementing a UCD Process By Whitney Quesenbery On Beyond Help: User Assistance and the User Interface By Whitney Quesenbery Use Usability to Best Advantage By Melaney Smith The Humane Environment By Jef Raskin Lessons to be Learned by George Olsen ======================================================= 11. XML Intro to XML grammar By Philip Page RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters By Mark Nottingham "This tutorial explains the features and benefits of a Web format called RSS, and gives a brief technical overview of it. The reader is assumed to have some familiarity with XML and other Web technologies." A good read if you haven't figured out the difference between RSS 0.9x (Really Simple Syndication), RSS 1.0 (RDF Site Summary) and RDF (a web standard for meta data which is used within RSS). Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful By Ian Hickson Ian Hickson makes a case for using HTML 4.01 in preference to XHTML, because XHTML should be sent with a text/xml content-type header (which causes most browsers, including IE, to fail to display it). 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