+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 15, Issue 46, May 11, 2017. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 46 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: COLOR. 04: DRUPAL. 05: EVALUATION & TESTING. 06: EVENTS. 07: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. 08: MISCELLANEOUS. 09: NAVIGATION. 10: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 11: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. May 18: Global Accessibility Awareness Day By ITSS, University of Minnesota Duluth. "Celebrate the occasion in 30 different ways..." https://itss.d.umn.edu/news/a11y-gaad-2017 Inclusive Design Fundamentals By Caitlin Geier, Matt Isner, and Dennis Lembree. Caitlin, Matt, and Dennis' CSUN 2017 workshop materials. https://isner.github.io/inclusive-design-fundamentals/ Accessibility By Meggin Kearney, Dave Gash, Alice Boxhall, and Rob Dodson. "This document set is a text-based version of part of the content covered in the Udacity course on Accessibility..." https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/accessibility/ IBM Accessibility Checklist By International Business Machines. "This is the IBM Accessibility Checklist - Version 7.0. It will replace IBM Accessibility Checklist for Software - Version 6.1, IBM Accessibility Checklist for Web and Web-based Documentation - Version 6.1 and Documentation checklist version 2.1 on July 18, 2017..." http://www-03.ibm.com/able/guidelines/ci162/accessibility_checklist.html How Many People With Disabilities Use My Website? By Tim Frick. "Want to know how many people with disabilities use your site? In this post, we'll explore why that may not be as easy as you might think..." https://www.mightybytes.com/blog/how-many-people-with-disabilities-use-my-website/ Accessibility and PDF Table of Contents By Gershon Blackmore. "If there is a Bible for PDF accessibility, it is the 14th chapter of ISO 32000_2008, the ur-text of the PDF standard. For any Scripture, of course, there is commentary, and the latest is ISO 14298-1-2016..." https://www.ssbbartgroup.com/blog/table-of-contents/ Slides: Accessibility as a Focus for People-First Design By David Sloan. "I gave a talk at the first UX in the City conference in Manchester, UK, on May 5th 2017, exploring the connection between people-first design and accessibility and inclusive design..." https://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2017/05/slides-accessibility-as-a-focus-for-people-first-design/ 2017 Federal ADA Title III Lawsuit Numbers 18% Higher than 2016 By Minh Vu, Kristina M. Launey & Susan Ryan. "The increase of ADA Title III lawsuits in federal court shows no signs of stopping. From January 1 through April 30, 2017, 2629 lawsuits were filed - 412 more than during the same period in 2016..." http://www.adatitleiii.com/2017/05/2017-federal-ada-title-iii-lawsuit-numbers-18-higher-than-2016/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. CSS Toggle Switch By Ionut Colceriu. "Accessible CSS toggle switch using standard form controls..." https://ghinda.net/css-toggle-switch/ +03: COLOR. How to Check for Accessible Colors (Video) By Rob Dodson. "The main goal of building any website is to convey some information to the user..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBmLspdAtxM The Truth About Button Color on Websites (According to NASA and Eye Tracking) By Kurtis Morrison. "It's one of the oldest debates in web design and digital marketing: which color should you use for call to action buttons?..." http://www.eyequant.com/blog/button-color-on-websites +04: DRUPAL. Section 508 Refresh, Accessibility & the Law in the USA (Video) By Mike Gifford. (Hat tip to Jennifer Sutton) Mike's April 2017 DrupalCon Baltimore presentation. https://events.drupal.org/baltimore2017/sessions/section-508-refresh-accessibility-law-usa +05: EVALUATION & TESTING. 10 Concepts Management Needs to Know about UX Measurement By Jeff Sauro. "...Here are ten key concepts for managing and measuring UX..." https://measuringu.com/managing-ux/ Automating Peace of Mind with Accessibility Testing & CI with Marcy Sutton (Video) By Chicago Digital Accessibility & Inclusive Design. "Did you know that accessibility test coverage and continuous integration (CI) go hand-in-hand? Automated tests can catch roughly 30-50% of accessibility issues with minimal effort, depending on your rule set..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBgZk3zgDHo 30 Days of Accessibility Testing By Matt Obee and Alon Fridman Waisbard. "Welcome to a new 30 Days of Testing Challenge..." https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/lessons/30-days-of-accessibility-testing +06: EVENTS. How to Help Your Users Find Personally Appealing Content June 12, 2017. St. Anthony, Minnesota, U.S.A. http://upamn.wildapricot.org/event-2546388 #a11yTO Conf September 28-29, 2017. Toronto, Ontario http://conf.a11yto.com/ EDUCAUSE Annual Conference October 31-November 3, 2017. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. https://events.educause.edu/annual-conference World Usability Day November 9, 2017. Everywhere http://www.worldusabilityday.org/ Accessing Higher Ground November 13-17, 2017. Westminster, Colorado, U.S.A. http://accessinghigherground.org/ +07: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. Wireframes Are Dead - Why I Haven't Used Wires in Over a Year. By Zakary Kinnaird. "What they are, why you shouldn't use them and what to do instead..." https://medium.muz.li/wireframes-are-dead-why-i-havent-used-wires-in-over-a-year-8027fcce1b3f +08: MISCELLANEOUS. The Inventor of the Web Tim Berners-Lee on the Future of the Internet, Fake News, and Why Net Neutrality is so Important By Mathias Dopfner. "Mathias Dopfner sat down with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, for a far-ranging conversation on the future of the internet, fake news, net neutrality, and the rising tide of censorship in countries across the world..." http://www.businessinsider.com/mathias-dopfner-tim-berners-lee-world-wide-web-interview-2017-5 +09: NAVIGATION. Tree Testing: Fast, Iterative Evaluation of Menu Labels and Categories By Kathryn Whitenton. "Follow these tips to effectively evaluate a site's navigation hierarchy and to avoid common design mistakes." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/tree-testing/ Anchors OK? Re-Assessing In-Page Links By Kathryn Whitenton. "While jump links have caused problems in the past, they can successfully be used to move users down long pages and directly to content, on any screen size." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/in-page-links/ Menus & Menu Buttons By Heydon Pickering. "...Don't use ARIA menu semantics in navigation menu systems. On content heavy sites, don't hide structure away in nested dropdown-powered navigation menus. Use aria-expanded to indicate the open/closed state of a button-activated navigation menu. Make sure said navigation menu is next in focus order after the button that opens/closes it. Never sacrifice usability in the pursuit of JavaScript-free solutions. It's vanity." https://inclusive-components.design/menus-menu-buttons/ An Introduction to Taxonomies By Sarah Khan. "...This article will explore what taxonomies are, how to gather the information for them and visually display them, and how they're useful for digital products..." http://www.uxbooth.com/articles/introduction-to-taxonomies/ +10: USABILITY. Less Is More (Video) By Jakob Nielsen. "Jakob Nielsen talks about why having a feature-rich interface can make navigation difficult to learn and overly complex." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dntokZAGr_c Icon or Label? By Adrian Narloch. "...Combining icons and labels together allows us to take advantages from both approaches so if we don't have ( or we don't need ) regular, loyal audience it could be the best solution." https://blog.prototypr.io/icon-or-label-1486425252bd The Customer is Now the Advertiser By Gerry McGovern. "...An essential element of the Web is that it gives us more control..." http://gerrymcgovern.com/the-customer-is-now-the-advertiser/ UX Designers Hate Scrum for a Reason By Dragan Kovacevic. "...There are many problems when running user experience design in a Scrum team..." http://kovacevic.io/ux-designers-hate-scrum-for-a-reason.html [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +11: 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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