+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 15, Issue 27, December 28, 2016. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 27 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: JAVASCRIPT. 05: MISCELLANEOUS. 06: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS. 07: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 08: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. Why Implementing Swipe Gestures Causes A Mobile Accessibility Issue By Jennison Asuncion. "...In short, swipe-based functionality is not accessible to all users. It is worth noting that while the focus here is on swipe gestures, this would hold true for any other gesture in use by any of these assistive software products..." https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-implementing-swipe-gestures-causes-mobile-issue-jennison-asuncion Accessible Emoji By Léonie Watson. "...These things are simple to fix though. We need to tell the browser to expose the emoji (or its container) as an image, then give it an accessible name..." http://tink.uk/accessible-emoji/ Inaccessible Websites Dent Business Profits, as Online Shoppers 'Click Away' By Tristan Parker. "...The report revealed that 71% of disabled customers with access needs will 'click away' from a website that they find difficult to use. A key finding from the survey was that the spending power of these online shoppers who click away is £11.75 billion - money which is then spent elsewhere by those same shoppers, on sites that they can access..." http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=1276 Web Accessibility in Healthcare By Catharine McNally. "...To tie this all together, having a 'blueprint' of the hospital build to evaluate accessibility compliance is just as important in a website build. Teams and stakeholders are able to anticipate potential accessibility barriers and fix it before time and money is spent." https://www.phase2technology.com/blog/web-accessibility-in-healthcare/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Learning from Lego: A Step Forward in Modular Web Design By Samantha Zhang. "...From what we've seen, this is a real game changer in how we think about and code our layouts. When web components are modular like Lego bricks down to the elements level, they become more versatile and easier to maintain. We believe it's the next step to take in modular web design..." http://alistapart.com/article/learning-from-lego-a-step-forward-in-modular-web-design CSS Vertical Centering - Everything You Need To Know By Vail Joy. "Getting content to center perfectly within an element and then ensuring it responds properly at different screen sizes is one of the biggest challenges that still face front-end designers..." http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/css-vertical-centering-everything-need-know CSS Writing Modes By Jen Simmons. "Since you may not have a lot of time, I'm going to start at the end, with the dessert. You can use a little-known, yet important and powerful CSS property to make text run vertically..." https://24ways.org/2016/css-writing-modes/ How to Avoid Chaos in Your Style Sheets By Eric An. "...Keeping a clean CSS file helps you implement design ideas without delay..." http://blog.invisionapp.com/design-css/ +03: EVENTS. Developer Week February 11-16, 2017. San Francisco, California, U.S.A. http://www.developerweek.com/ Webstock February 13-17, 2017. Wellington, New Zealand http://www.webstock.org.nz/17/ Mobile+Web DevCon March 1-3, 2017. San Francisco, California, U.S.A. http://mobilewebdevconference.com/san-francisco-2017/ Web Accessibility Training March 14-15, 2017. Logan, Utah, U.S.A. http://webaim.org/training/ AHEAD 2017 July 17-22, 2017. Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. https://www.ahead.org/meet/conferences/2017 DrupalCon Vienna September 25-29, 2017. Vienna, Austria https://events.drupal.org/vienna2017 An Event Apart San Francisco October 30-November 1, 2017. San Francisco, Califorina, U.S.A. https://aneventapart.com/event/san-francisco-2017 +04: JAVASCRIPT. aria-valuetext Property By Rakesh Paladugula. "Aria-valuetext property works similar to a aria-valuenow property..." http://www.maxability.co.in/2016/12/aria-valuetext-property/ +05: MISCELLANEOUS. Accessibility and Web Optimization (Video) By Chris Heilmann. "Awwwards Conference Amsterdam 2016 Chris Heilmann, Developer Evangelist at Microsoft gave a no-frills talk on the issues we need to tackle to keep the web from becoming the slow lane of information transport. He shares his developer's checklist." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH7YG_DKFmM +06: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS. Incubate All the Things By Brian Kardell. "There's a conversation going on right now on the mailing list public-w3process, it's exceptionally long and twisty at this point, it took me a few hours to get caught up and... Wait, what's that? You've never even heard of this mailing list? No worries, I'll fill you in and tell you why this is important..." http://bkardell.com/blog/Incubate-All-The-Things.html +07: USABILITY. 15 Guiding Principles for UX Researchers By Interaction Design Foundation. "We've found that a lot of first time UX researchers have similar questions and concerns when they start working in UX design. So, we thought we'd round up and tackle some of the most common questions to form a set of useful principles for UX researchers..." https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/15-guiding-principles-for-ux-researchers The Biggest UX Challenges Of 2017 By Mark Wilson. "UX is no longer just about user experience. It's about social justice..." https://www.fastcodesign.com/3066744/the-biggest-ux-challenges-of-2017 Designers Propose, Users Dispose (Video) By Jakob Nielsen. "The conclusion to my talk at the UX Conference in Las Vegas earlier this month, about the relative power of designers and users." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IoTsZGri4o Psychology Makes You a Better UX Designer (Video) By Hoa Loranger. "Why an understanding of psychology is necessary for good user interface design." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6fPKi9-ZG8 [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +08: 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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