+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 12, Issue 04, July 18, 2013. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 04 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: DREAMWEAVER. 04: EVENTS. 05: HTML5. 06: JAVASCRIPT. 07: MISCELLANEOUS. 08: NAVIGATION. 09: PHP. 10: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 11: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. Accessibility Expert Warns - Stop Using Carousels By Craig Grannell. "Jared Smith slams UI elements that are detrimental to users...they combine so many usability, accessibility, and content issues for all users into one widget. Even if made technically accessible or compliant, functionally, the end user experience is unlikely to be a good one. And hopefully shouldiuseacarousel.com has prompted thought about this and other usability and accessibility concerns." http://www.netmagazine.com/news/accessibility-expert-warns-stop-using-carousels-132875 Easy Checks - A First Review of Web Accessibility By W3C. "This page helps you assess the accessibility of a web page. With these simple steps, you can get an idea whether or not accessibility is addressed in even the most basic way." http://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/preliminary The Blind Community's Fight for a More Accessible Web By Tim Sampson. "...accessibility for websites is like accessibility for a building: It's a few key changes that can make all the difference..." http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/blind-internet-users-screen-reader-captcha/ Making an Accessible Form with ARIA, Part 1 By Lisa Seeman. "This blog is part of my series on using ARIA. It will look at forms and some easy things you can do with ARIA states and properties to make forms accessible..." http://www.deque.com/making-accessible-form-aria-part-1 10 Milestones in the Mainstreaming of Accessibility By Scott Hollier. "Lecturer and W3C Advisory Committee member Scott Hollier takes a look at the milestones that have pushed accessibility into the mainstream and continue to impact on the way we work " http://www.netmagazine.com/features/milestones-mainstreaming-accessibility WP Accessibility By Joe Dolson. "This plug-in helps correct a variety of common accessibility problems in WordPress themes. While most accessibility issues can't be addressed without directly changing your theme, WP Accessibility adds a number of helpful accessibility features with the minimum amount of setup or expert knowledge...." http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-accessibility/ Call for Review - HTML5 Image Description Extension (longdesc) Last Call By Mark Sadecki. "The HTML Accessibility Task Force, which is a joint task force of the Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) and the HTML Working Group (HTML WG), invites your comments on the Last Call Working Draft of the HTML5 Image Description Extension..." http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2013JulSep/0018.html +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Height Equals Width with Pure CSS By Marc Hinse. "I was looking for a solution for flexible elements which remain the aspect ratio when resized. Until now I used some Javascript for resizing the elements. But using the resize event and recalculate the height of an element is some kind of nasty and never felt right. Recently I found a solution in an article from A List Apart and a topic on StackOverflow, which works quite well..." http://www.mademyday.de/css-height-equals-width-with-pure-css.html Writing DRYer Vanilla CSS By Harry Roberts. "When dealing with code, we often strive to make things DRY. DRY code usually means two things..." http://csswizardry.com/2013/07/writing-dryer-vanilla-css/ CSS Regions - New Working Draft By Radu Stavila. "On May 28th 2013, we published a new W3C working draft for CSS Regions, one of the features proposed by the Adobe Web Platform team. Here are the most important changes you should be aware of:" http://blogs.adobe.com/webplatform/2013/07/15/css-regions-new-working-draft/ +03: DREAMWEAVER. Using the SSI Extension in Dreamweaver to Create Page Headers By Veeresh Hiremath. "Before you begin, quit Dreamweaver if it is running. Next, download the sample files. Uncompress the ZIP file and save the folder named ssi_extension to your desktop. You'll define a site using this sample files folder as the site's local root folder." http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/ssi-extension.html +04: EVENTS. BlogHer '13 July 25-27, 2013. Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. http://www.blogher.com/blogher-13 +05: HTML5. Essential Audio and Video Events for HTML5 By James Edwards. "The