+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
- Volume 16, Issue 08, August 16, 2017.

An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. 

++ISSUE 08 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: BOOKS.
03: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
04: EVALUATION & TESTING.
05: EVENTS.
06: HTML.
07: JAVASCRIPT.
08: MISCELLANEOUS.
09: TYPOGRAPHY.
10: USABILITY.


SECTION TWO: 
11: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site?

[Contents ends.]


++ SECTION ONE: New references.

+01: ACCESSIBILITY.

Inclusive Design Principle: Be Consistent
By Heydon Pickering.
"This article is one in a series of articles on The Paciello Group blog aimed at unpacking each of the Inclusive Design Principles. This time the principle is Be Consistent..."
https://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2017/08/inclusive-design-principle-be-consistent/

Inclusive Design Posters from Barclays
By Henny Swan.
"Our friends at Barclays have designed some beautiful posters of the Inclusive Design Principles shared under Creative Commons..."
https://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2017/08/inclusive-design-posters-from-barclays/

Inclusive Design 24 (#ID24) November 2017
By Léonie Watson.
"We had so much fun in June we're doing it again. Inclusive Design 24 (#ID24) is on Thursday 16 November 2017, and the call for presentations is open!..."
https://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2017/08/inclusive-design-24-id24-november-2017/

Inaccessible YouTube Embeds
By Adrian Roselli.
"Most of us in the accessibility biz (do we call it that? I think we call it that…) already know that YouTube's default embed code is problematic. Specifically, the fact that the <iframe> does not have a title attribute is an automatic WCAG 2.0 AA failure..."
http://adrianroselli.com/2017/08/inaccessible-youtube-embeds.html

#CaptionFail: Did You Catch That? (QUIZ)
By Sofia Enamorado.
"Automatic captions are easy, free, and convenient. But too many times automatic captions are wrong, wrong, and wrong..."
http://www.3playmedia.com/2017/08/11/captionfail-did-you-catch-that/

How to Structure Headings for Web Accessibility
By Amani Ali.
"When is a heading not a heading? Serious question, the answer lies behind one of the most common accessibility problems on the web..."
https://www.nomensa.com/blog/2017/how-structure-headings-web-accessibility

Reply to "Building Accessible Single Page Apps" 
By Dennis Lembrée.
"For dynamic screen changes in an SPA, I highly recommend setting focus to the region with new content, preferably to a top-level heading within the new content. An ARIA live region will read new content to a screen reader user but the keyboard focus will remain in a illogical location on the screen, and very often focus will be lost entirely since content is removed. Reading out all the new content may also be overwhelming for the user."
https://medium.com/@dennisl/for-dynamic-screen-changes-in-an-spa-i-highly-recommend-setting-focus-to-the-region-with-new-38e48ebf2b2c

Spokane Schools Swept up in Nationwide Barrage of ADA Website Accessibility Complaints
By Eli Francovich.
"A civil rights complaint filed by a Michigan woman is prompting Spokane Public Schools to make its website accessible for users with disabilities. The complaint is one of more than 1,700 that education-activist Marcie Lipsitt has single-handedly filed nationwide in a year and a half blitz..."
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/aug/09/spokane-schools-swept-up-in-nationwide-barrage-of-/

New York Court Chides Other Approaches to Web Accessibility 
By Alexis Kramer.
"A federal district court has added fuel to an ongoing debate among courts over the extent to which the Americans With Disabilities Act covers business websites..."
https://www.bna.com/new-york-court-b73014462895/

Memorandum and Order on Defendant's Motion To Dismiss (Blick Case) (PDF)
By Jack B. Weistein, Senior United States District Judge. 
http://www.adatitleiii.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/121/2017/08/Andrews-v.-Blick-Art-Materials-LLC-17-cv-00767-Memorandum-and-Order....pdf


+02: BOOKS.

Andrew, Rachel. The New CSS Layout, A Book Apart, 2017.


+03: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.

The Difference Between Explicit and Implicit Grids 
By Manuel Matuzovic.
"...This article doesn't cover everything there is to know about the explicit and implicit grid, but it should give you more than a solid understanding of the concept. Knowing why and how implicit lines and tracks a created is vital for working with Grid Layout."
https://css-tricks.com/difference-explicit-implicit-grids/


+04: EVALUATION & TESTING.

Why Testing Designs with Users Is Still a Major Challenge for Companies
By Markus Pirker. 
"The good folks at UXPin have just released their annual Enterprise UX Industry Report..."
https://userbrain.net/blog/testing-designs-users-still-major-challenge-enterprises

How to Conduct User Interviews
By Tiffany Cheng.
"Over the past couple of weeks, I've conducted a dozen user interviews to uncover insights on what customers do and why they do it. I'd like to share a guide on how to go about implementing them for those who are just getting started or those who want to brush up..."
https://medium.com/@tiff_cheng/how-to-conduct-user-interviews-d099f3688615

When To Go Guerrilla With UX Recruiting
By Amanda Stockwell.
"...While I'm a huge fan of pretty much anything that helps us pragmatically collect and integrate research, guerilla research has its time and place..."
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-go-guerrilla-ux-recruiting-amanda-stockwell


+05: EVENTS.

UX Conference Chicago
October 7-13, 2017.
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
https://www.nngroup.com/training/chicago/

Accessibility Bootcamp
October 10-11, 2017.
Linthicum, Maryland, U.S.A.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/baltimore-dc-accessibility-bootcamp-tickets-36398502902

Desert Code Camp
October 14, 2017.
Chandler, Arizona, U.S.A.
https://oct2017.desertcodecamp.com/

SmashingConf Barcelona
October 17-18, 2017.
Barcelona, Spain
https://smashingconf.com/barcelona-2017/

Web Accessibility Training
October 24-25, 2017.
Logan, Utah, U.S.A.
https://webaim.org/training


+06: HTML.

Proposal to Republish Previous Versions of HTML and XHTML as Obsolete Recommendations
By Coralie Mercier.
"W3C Advisory Committee Representatives received today a proposal to republish a series of HTML and XHTML W3C Recommendations as Obsolete Recommendations, in response to a request from the Web Platform Working Group as these specifications are superseded by new versions and are no longer recommended for implementation on the Web platform..."
https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6459


+07: JAVASCRIPT.

JavaScript and SEO: The Difference Between Crawling and Indexing
By Barry Adams.
"...If you care about SEO, less JavaScript means more efficiency. And more efficiency means higher rankings..."
http://www.stateofdigital.com/javascript-seo-crawling-indexing/


+08: MISCELLANEOUS.

A11y Rules Podcast Interview with Denis Boudreau - Part 1
By Nicolas Steenhout.
"This is the first part of my interview with Denis Boudreau. Denis talks about his understanding of accessibility, the importance of not approaching it as a 'checklist', its place in the UI/UX continuum, how becoming a parent helped him become more empathetic, and more..."
https://www.patreon.com/posts/a11y-rules-with-13790088


+09: TYPOGRAPHY.

Font-size: An Unexpectedly Complex CSS Property
By Manish Goregaokar.
"So there you have it. font-size is actually pretty complicated. A lot of the web platform has hidden complexities like this, and it's always fun to encounter more of them."
https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/08/10/font-size-an-unexpectedly-complex-css-property/


+10: USABILITY.

Data-Informed Design: Minimize the Website Redesign Debate
By Jennifer Leigh Brown.
"Does the prospect of a website redesign fill you with excitement or overwhelm you with dread? More than an online property, a website is a reflection of a company's brand and its customer experience-and everyone has an opinion when it's time for a redesign. When the discussions and debates start about what to do and how to do it, the person with data has a defensible answer to share and not just another opinion..."
http://www.uxbooth.com/articles/data-informed-design-minimize-the-website-redesign-debate/

Above the Fold is a Myth 
By Rob Lafratta.
"Because it's not 1997 anymore."
http://abovethefold.fyi/

Troubleshooting Group Ideation: 10 Fixes for More and Better UX Ideas
By Kate Meyer.
"Groups can bias individuals and impact collaborative ideation. A focus on getting as many ideas as possible can mitigate some of the negative group effects."
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/group-ideation/

Float Label Pattern in UX Form Design
By CanvasFlip.
"A comparison of all trends in form labels..."
https://uxplanet.org/float-label-pattern-in-ux-form-design-7ab5e33010ab

Tracking User Behavior with Big Data: A Model for Detecting Pain Points in the User Experience
By Li Wei.
"...In general, users experience positive or negative emotions towards a product and brand by using and feeling the details of a product. By building user behavior models to capture data on business objectives, we can assess user attitudes towards our products and take further action to make improvements."
http://uxpamagazine.org/tracking-user-behavior/

[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.]


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Laura L. Carlson
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