* WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
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* October 9, 2002.
* Volume 1, Issue 15.
* What's new at the Web Design Reference site?
New Links In These Categories:
1: ACCESSIBILITY.
2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
3: DREAMWEAVER.
4: EVALUATION & TESTING.
5: EVENTS.
6: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.
7: JAVASCRIPT.
8: MISCELLANEOUS.
9: NAVIGATION.
10: PHP.
11: USABILITY.
12: XML.
SECTION ONE: New references.
* 1: ACCESSIBILITY.
Reality Check for Web Design
By Kendra Mayfield
"Despite progress, websites today are still three times harder for users with disabilities to use than for other users."
Microsoft redesign
By Mark Pilgrim
"The new design also fails even the most basic accessibility tests; the home page contains 80 instances of images without ALT text."
Assistive Technology Showcase Devices
By the Official U.S. Section 508 Web site
Never seen a refreshable Braille display? This is the place to check out pictures of it and other devices.
Suit Over Airlines' Web Sites Tests Bounds of ADA
By Matthew Haggman
A blind web user is suing Southwest Airlines because its website is incompatible with his screen reader.
* 2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
Flash of Unstyled Content (FOUC)
By Bluerobot
Sidebar Tabs CSS2.1 Quick Reference
By Eric A. Meyer
Available for installation in Gecko-based browsers.
Fixing Incorrectly Sized List Item Markers
By Eric A. Meyer
Learn how to correctly size list item markers in Gecko 0.9.4, the basis of Netscape 6.2.x and CompuServe 7.
position:fixed; fixed
By Eric Bednarz
* 3: DREAMWEAVER.
Tableless Layouts with Dreamweaver MX
By Drew McLellan
* 4: EVALUATION & TESTING.
Details of a usability study
By Interaction Design, Inc.
* 5: EVENTS.
A.D.A. Issues and Requirements
October 17, 2002
University of Minnesota Duluth
Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.A.
A live, interactive, satellite teleconference that will cover web accessibility and accessibility requirements for other distance education media.
* 6: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.
Persuasive Architecture: How to Get Your Visitors to Take Action
By GrokDotCom
Ranganathan for IAs
By Mike Steckel
* 7: JAVASCRIPT.
Introduction to the JavaScript Debugger
By Ian Oeschger and Robert Ginda
Script Examples
From JavaScript for the World Wide Web,
4th Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide
* 8: MISCELLANEOUS.
An interview with Peter Merholz and Nathan Shedroff on User-Centered Design
By Meryl K. Evans
Designed for life
Donald Norman interview
Louis Rosenfeld & Peter Morville Interview
* 9: NAVIGATION.
Hypertext Links: Whither Thou Goest, and Why
By Claire Harrison
"This paper explores the semantic and rhetorical principles underlying link development and proposes a systematic, comprehensive classification of link types that would be of use to researchers and Web production teams."
Faceted Metadata Search and Browse
By Avi Rappoport
* 10: PHP.
How to use for() statements in PHP
By Emmie Lewis
* 11: USABILITY.
Criteria for optimal web design (designing for usability)
By Michael L Bernard
UD researchers develop revolutionary computer interface technology
By University of Delaware
14 Principles of Polite Apps
By Alan Cooper
A section from his clsssic book "The Inmates are Running the Asylum".
If you see a fork in the Web, don't take it
By Baron Lane
ACM SIGCHI Video Database
Presented by the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center
* 12: XML.
XML Accessibility Guidelines
W3C Working Draft
3 October 2002
By the WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group
The draft is a guide for tools designers and authors of XML formats. It explains how to design accessible XML applications that lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with disabilities.
[Section one ends.]
* SECTION TWO: What Can You Find at the
Web Design Reference Site?
Accessibility Information.
Association Information.
Book Listings.
Cascading Style Sheets Information.
Color Information.
Dreamweaver Information.
Evaluation & Testing Information.
Event Information.
Flash Information.
Information Architecture Information.
JavaScript Information.
Miscellaneous Web Information.
Navigation Information.
PHP Information.
Sites & Blogs Listing.
Standards, Guidelines & Pattern Information.
Tool Information.
Typography Information.
Usability Information.
XML Information.
[Section two ends.]
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Laura L. Carlson
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University of Minnesota Duluth
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