+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 8, Issue 47, May 21, 2010. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 47 CONTENTS. SECTION ONE: New references. What's new at the Web Design Reference site? http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/webdesign/ New links in these categories: 01: ACCESSIBILITY. 02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. 03: COLOR. 04: DREAMWEAVER. 05: EVALUATION & TESTING. 06: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. 07: JAVASCRIPT. 08: MISCELLANEOUS. 09: NAVIGATION. 10: PHP. 11: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS. 12: TYPOGRAPHY. 13: USABILITY. 14: XML. SECTION TWO: 15: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. HTML5: Techniques for Providing Useful Text Alternatives By Steve Faulkner. "HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives is a work in progress currently edited by me, I encourage anyone with an interest to contribute to its development..." http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=617 Kill Accessibility By Gary Barber. "...In some ways even considering accessibility as a separate item is the wrong approach. We really need to be considering the ideals of universal design, in which everything is designed for everyone. Let's just for a minute forget about accessibility as a separate issue. We need to design and develop for people using AT just like we do for any other usability issue. This is where Inclusive Design comes in..." http://manwithnoblog.com/2010/05/20/kill-accessibility/ Web Site Designed For People With Cognitive Disabilities But Inaccessible To Them By John Rochford. "I assessed the Web site of Bipolar Scotland. It was designed for people with cognitive disabilities. Summary assessment results show the site met all seven design-related criteria, but not the three content criteria. In my judgment, a site with significant content-accessibility problems can not be considered accessible to people with cognitive disabilities..." http://tinyurl.com/3y4hdyy HTML Validation with ARIA By Michael Cooper. "A HTML 4 plus WAI-ARIA DTD is available from http://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/schemata/. This can be used to validate pages that use ARIA and otherwise are intended to conform to HTML 4. Note this is just a draft DTD and is not meant to be directly referenced, it should be downloaded. It is not expected to have official standing in HTML 4 since that language is not being maintained anymore..." http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2010AprJun/0016.html The Challenges of Internet Users with Low or Limited Vision By Tom Babinszki. "Once or twice while surfing the Net, you may have felt your eyesight become blurred or find it hard to focus on the screen. This is normally not a problem as you can always rest for a while to regain your perfect vision. But try to imagine yourself having limited vision all the time. What do you think are the challenges you may face as you browse web pages? How can they be solved?..." http://www.evengrounds.com/blog/challenges-of-low-vision-internet-users "