+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 10, Issue 51, June 13, 2013. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 51 CONTENTS. SECTION ONE: New references. What's new at the Web Design Reference site? http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/ New links in these categories: 01: ACCESSIBILITY. 02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. 03: EVENTS. 04: HTML5. 05: JAVASCRIPT. 07: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS. 08: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 09: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. Call for Review - HTML5 Image Description Extension (longdesc) Updated By Shawn Henry. "An updated Working Draft of HTML Image Description Extension is available for review to determine if there are any outstanding issues before it progresses to Last Call..." http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2013AprJun/0262.html Google Petitioned on Accessibility By Media Access Australia. "Software giant Google has been petitioned by J.P. Shandra, a blind user, to make each of its products usable for people with disability..." http://www.mediaaccess.org.au/latest_news/general/google-petitioned-on-accessibility Google - Include Accessibility in All Products By J.P. Shandra. "I'm starting this petition in complete frustration. Google has declared to the world it's dedication to accessibility. This is a disingenuous statement on the company's part. The only Google products that have accessibility in mind are the ones you must provide by law. That includes browsers and email. The rest were either half -hearted attempts or no attempt at all..." http://www.change.org/petitions/google-include-accessibility-in-all-products-2 Custom UI Widget Accessibility Problems By Karl Groves. "In this 33 second video, I demonstrate the differences between a native UI element vs. a custom UI widget..." http://www.karlgroves.com/2013/06/06/custom-ui-widget-accessibility-problems/ Requirements for Accessible PDF part Four - Proper Conversion Process By Denis Boudreau. "In the first three parts of this series, we've looked at ways through which content can be optimized directly in the authoring source document, so accessibility is built right in from the very beginning. We've argued why it was preferable to build accessibility right in, rather than waiting until the document had been converted from an authoring source to bolt it on the resulting PDF..." http://www.deque.com/accessible-pdf-proper-conversion-process Accessibility Requirements for eDMs: Part 1 By accessiq. "Many people believe web accessibility begins and ends with their organisation's website. In reality, it should encompass all communications. This includes your Word templates, your PDF's and your eDM's." http://www.accessiq.org/create/content/accessibility-requirements-for-edms-part-1 +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. CSS Stacking with display:table By Ian Devlin. "With responsive design, one of the things that we often want to do is to change the stack order of certain elements, moving the aside on the left below the main text which we want to bring to the top. CSS3's Flexbox will do this for us, but there is a quicker, if dirtier, way which we can use now..." http://www.iandevlin.com/blog/2013/06/css/css-stacking-with-display-table +03: EVENTS. DrupalCamp Austin June 21-23, 2013. Austin, Texas, U.S.A. http://2013.drupalcampaustin.org/ +04: HTML5. How Patents are Ruining the Adoption of HTML5 Video By Vu Tran. "There are a lot of video containers out there: avi, mp4, ogg, flv, mkv, etc. One of the biggest headaches we're trying to solve with Framebase is being able to upload any video and have it play across all browsers and devices without heavy reliance on Flash. When explaining Framebase, sometimes we get questions like, 'Why can't you just use the