+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 15, Issue 16, October 13, 2016. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 16 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: EVALUATION & TESTING. 04: EVENTS. 05: JAVASCRIPT. 06: NAVIGATION. 07: USABILITY. 08: XML. SECTION TWO: 09: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. Mobile Accessibility 101 (Video) By Sylvia Pellicore. "You've built a fantastic new mobile app or responsive site, but are you sure everyone can use it?..." This video is Sylvia Pellicore's NCDev Conference presentation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZNdmEiURSc Accessibility with Claire Kearney-Volpe and Chancey Fleet (Video) By Daniel Shiffman. "Claire Kearney-Volpe and Chancey Fleet visit the studio to talk about their work with coding and accessibility for low vision and blind people." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w_S17dZ2Do The Accessible Instructional Materials in Higher Education (AIM HE) Act (H.R. 6122) By The National Federation of the Blind (NFB). "The AIM HE Act: 1) Authorizes a purpose-based commission to develop accessibility guidelines... 2) Provides an incentive for schools to follow the guidelines by offering a safe harbor from litigation... 3) Restates that schools are still obligated to meet the equal access mandate under current law...The AIM HE Act addresses the problem of inaccessible instructional materials in post-secondary education..." https://nfb.org//aim_he Frequently Asked Questions on the Accessible Instructional Materials in Higher Education (AIM HE) Act By NFB. "Will colleges and universities have to follow the guidelines?..." https://nfb.org/aim-he-act-faqs Web Accessibility and the ADA By Philip R. Voluck. "In fact, as of this writing, some 60-70 web accessibility lawsuits are pending in federal courts across the country..." http://www.corpcounsel.com/id=1202769649491/Web-Accessibility-and-the-ADA +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. The Amazing Women of CSS By Rachel Andrew. "It is Ada Lovelace Day..." https://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2016/10/11/the-amazing-women-of-css/ Grid by Example (Videos) By Rachel Andrew. "A collection of usage examples for the CSS Grid Layout specification..." http://gridbyexample.com/video/ +03: EVALUATION & TESTING. 12 Tips For Writing Better Survey Questions By Jeff Sauro. "...Here's a summary of 12 useful guidelines we use, pulled from books and articles..." http://www.measuringu.com/blog/survey-questions.php +04: EVENTS. Accessibility Testing in Angular 1 and 2 October 19, 2016. Washington, D.C., U.S.A. http://www.eventbrite.com/e/accessibility-dc-accessibility-testing-in-angular-1-and-2-oct-19-tickets-28360047666 International Day of People with Disability December 3, 2016. Everywhere http://www.idpwd.com.au/ Las Vegas UX Conference December 3-9, 2016. Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. https://www.nngroup.com/training/las-vegas/ Mobile Accessibility 101 December 13, 2016. Online http://accessibility.deque.com/mobile-accessibility-webinar-dec-2016 +05: JAVASCRIPT. A (Not So) Short Note on ARIA to the Rescue By Steve Faulkner. "Native HTML elements don't require the addition of ARIA attributes to expose the semantics they have, as, for the most part, browsers expose this information..." https://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2016/10/a-not-so-short-note-on-aria-to-the-rescue/ Testing for Accessibility in Angular 1 and 2 (Video) By Marcy Sutton. This video is Marcy Sutton's Angular Connect Conference presentation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y2MnXo45cs Marcy's Slides: http://marcysutton.github.io/a11y-testing-with-angular/ We Have to Talk About JavaScript By John Allsopp. "It seems that almost weekly concerns about the complexity of the ecosystem around JavaScript, build tools and frameworks bubble over..." https://www.webdirections.org/blog/we-have-to-talk-about-javascript/ Does Progressive Enhancement Have a Place in Today's Web? (Video) By George Brocklehurst. "Single page Web apps are everywhere these days. Is Ruby now just a language of APIs? Is there even an alternative?..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuoMsxA9vOg Is jQuery Still Relevant? By T.J. VanToll, Jen Looper, Todd Motto, and Jeremy Likness. "Although jQuery's heyday may have passed, the library is still used at a staggering rate. But how of much of that usage is legacy? And how many developers are choosing to use jQuery in new applications?.." http://developer.telerik.com/featured/is-jquery-still-relevant/ +06: NAVIGATION. The Annoying Mobile Double-Tap Link Issue By Chris Coyier. "We had a question come up the other day on ShopTalk about regular ol' anchor links on iOS, and some weird situation where you couldn't just tap them once to go to the link, it required tapping the link twice. I've experienced this myself and have been pretty confounded..." https://css-tricks.com/annoying-mobile-double-tap-link-issue/ +07: USABILITY. Accessibility for User Experience Designers By Matt Isner. "...As user experience designers, you are in a unique position to make informed decisions about things like document structure, keyboard interactivity, and reading order, which have a huge impact on the accessibility (and therefore the usability) of the products you create. As a result, it's imperative that you apply some basic accessibility principles to your work in the interest of achieving success in those areas..." http://www.deque.com/blog/accessibility-user-experience-designers/ Designing Card-Based User Interfaces By Nick Babich. "In this article, I'll explain what cards mean to UI designers, and I'll review three popular card-based services. If you're interested in prototyping your own card-based user interface, you can download and test Adobe's Experience Design CC for free and get started right away." https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/10/designing-card-based-user-interfaces/ What Happy Meals Can Teach us about Good User Experience By Amy Ahearn. "...recommendations can be boiled down to reduce choice complexity and build smarter defaults..." http://plusacumen.org/blog/what-happy-meals-can-teach-us-about-good-user-experience/ Developing Usability Heuristics: A Formal or Informal Process By Daniela Quinones, Cristian Rusu, Silvana Roncagliolo, Virginica Rusu, and Cesar A. Collazos. "There are many methods to assess the usability of interactive software systems. The Heuristic evaluation is one of the methods that allow finding many usability issues, based on a set of usability principles (heuristics). However..." http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7587648/ +08: XML. SVG Filter Primitives-Input and Output By Steven Bradley. "...Today I want to focus on how filter primitives work, mainly how the output of one primitive can be used as the input for another inside the same filter..." http://vanseodesign.com/web-design/svg-filter-primitives-input-output/ [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +09: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? Accessibility Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/accessibility.html Association Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/associations.html Book Listings. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/books.html Cascading Style Sheets Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/css.html Color Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/color.html Drupal Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/drupal.html Evaluation & Testing Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/testing.html Event Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/events.html HTML Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/html.html Information Architecture Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/architecture.html JavaScript Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/javascript.html Miscellaneous Web Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/misc.html Navigation Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/navigation.html PHP Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/php.html Sites & Blogs Listing. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/sites.html Standards, Guidelines & Pattern Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/standards.html Tool Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/tools.html Typography Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/type.html Usability Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/usability.html XML Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/xml.html [Section two ends.] ++END NOTES. + SUBSCRIPTION INFO. 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