+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 16, Issue 50, June 5, 2018. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 50 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: TYPOGRAPHY. 07: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 08: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. WCAG 2.1 is a Web Standard "W3C Recommendation" By Shawn Henry. "The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1) as a W3C Recommendation…" https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2018AprJun/0138.html New Accessibility Recommendation Published By Information Technology Systems & Services, University of Minnesota Duluth. "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 address gaps in WCAG 2.0…" https://itss.d.umn.edu/news/wcag21-published Survey of Web Accessibility Practitioners #2 Results By WebAIM. "The results of the April 2018 WebAIM Survey of Web Accessibility Practitioners are now available. A summary of notable results is available at on the WebAIM blog." https://webaim.org/projects/practitionersurvey2/ How to Add Alternative Text to Facebook Photos By Deborah Edwards-Onoro. "Last week when I asked my friends on Twitter and Facebook whether they added alternative text (alt text) to the photos they post on Facebook, every person replied said they didn't know they could…" https://www.lireo.com/how-to-add-alternative-text-to-facebook-photos/ How to Create Video Captions By John Espirian. "Do you create video for YouTube, your website or your social media accounts? If so, adding captions (text subtitles) will improve the viewing experience for your audience…" https://espirian.co.uk/create-video-captions/ 5 Tips for Speeding Up the Captioning Process By Sofia Enamorado. "Captioning in-house can take up a lot of time. Fortunately, there are a couple of tips and tricks you can try to help speed up the process…" https://www.3playmedia.com/2018/05/31/5-tips-for-speeding-up-the-captioning-process/ Making WSJ.com More Accessible By Matthew Ström. "…As we continue our pursuit of accessibility across all of WSJ.com, I’d like to share the work we’ve done to get here…" https://matthewstrom.com/writing/wsj-accessibility.html Education Department Sued Over New Approach to Civil Rights Complaints By Christina Samuels. "The U.S. Department of Education can't just ignore and fail to investigate civil-rights complaints from those who repeatedly file such complaints, says a lawsuit filed against the department from three advocacy organizations…" https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/speced/2018/05/education_department_sued_over.html In Seeking to Decrease 'Burden' of Complaints, Education Department is Closing 'Meritorious' Civil Rights Cases, Federal Lawsuit Says By Mark Keierleber. "The NAACP and other civil rights organizations have filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education and Secretary Betsy DeVos, seeking to reverse a recent department policy that has effectively dismissed hundreds of complaints it views as an unreasonable burden…" https://www.the74million.org/in-seeking-to-decrease-burden-of-complaints-education-department-is-closing-meritorious-civil-rights-cases-federal-lawsuit-says/ CA Court Rules Unruh Act Requires Website to Conform to WCAG 2.0 AA, But Denies Damages for Multiple Visits to Website By Kristina M. Launey & Minh N. Vu. "On May 21, a California state court in Los Angeles held on summary judgment that the Whisper Lounge restaurant violated California's Unruh Act by having a website that could not be used by a blind person with a screen reader, and ordered the restaurant to make its website comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Level 2.0 AA…" https://www.adatitleiii.com/2018/06/ca-court-rules-unruh-act-requires-website-to-conform-to-wcag-2-0-aa-but-denies-damages-for-multiple-visits-to-website/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. How to Make Your CSS Consistent Across Browsers By Nesha Zoric. "Maybe this post should be the first of the first because it's about how to start your CSS…" https://dev.to/neshaz/how-to-make-your-css-consistent-across-browsers--2hff The State of Changing Gradients with CSS Transitions and Animations By Ana Tudor. "Back in 2012, Internet Explorer 10 came out and, among other things, it finally supported CSS gradients and, in addition to that, the ability to animate them with just CSS! No other browser supported this at the time, but I was hopeful for the future…" https://css-tricks.com/the-state-of-changing-gradients-with-css-transitions-and-animations/ +03: EVALUATION & TESTING. Top 10 Questions When Recruiting Participants For User Tests By Loop11. "Some of the most common questions we receive at Loop11 from customers revolve around participant recruitment…" https://medium.com/@Loop11/top-10-questions-when-recruiting-participants-for-user-tests-8b8091892ad5 +04: EVENTS. Access Technology Higher Education Network (ATHEN) Virtual Conference June 8, 2018. Online https://athenpro.org/content/athen-virtual-conference Re-imagining Accessibility Guidelines June 28, 2018. Toronto, Ontario, Canada https://www.meetup.com/a11yTO/events/249643016/ Document Accessibility Course July 2, 2018 and onward. Online https://webaim.org/services/training/a11ydocs/ Midwest JS August 8-10, 2018. Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. http://midwestjs.com/ Digital Summit August 22-23, 2018. Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. https://minneapolis.digitalsummit.com/ Barcelona UX Conference September 3-7, 2018. Barcelona, Spain https://www.nngroup.com/training/barcelona/ National Association of Government Web (NAGW) Conference September 12-13, 2018. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. https://nagw.org/conference/2018 Cascadia PHP 2018 September 14-15, 2018. Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. https://www.cascadiaphp.com/ +05: JAVASCRIPT. The Cult of the Complex by Jeffrey Zeldman. "'Tis a gift to be simple. ALA's Zeldman bemoans our industry's current fetish for the needlessly complicated over the straightforward. Escape the cult of the complex! Get back to improving lives, one interaction at a time" https://alistapart.com/article/cult-of-the-complex Cards By Heydon Pickering. "Some of the components I've explored here have specific standardized requirements in order to work as expected…" https://inclusive-components.design/cards/ Empathy Driven Development By Marcy Sutton. https://github.com/marcysutton/empathy-driven-development aria-placeholder (property) By Rakesh Paladugula. "Aria-placeholder property is new in ARIA 1.1 specifications. This property is used to provide a short hint for text input fields when it does not have any text…" http://www.maxability.co.in/2018/06/aria-placeholder-property/ WAI-ARIA (Presentation Slides) By Patrick Lauke. "An introduction to Accessible Rich Internet Applications…" https://patrickhlauke.github.io/aria/presentation/ +06: TYPOGRAPHY. How to Find Fonts Used in a Web Page (Video) By Rob Hope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bHxY5Unpiw +07: USABILITY. Hick's Law for Choice Reaction Time: A Review By Robert Proctor and Darryl Schneider. "In 1952, W. E. Hick published an article in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, “On the rate of gain of information.” It played a seminal role in the cognitive revolution and established one of the few widely acknowledged laws in psychology, relating choice reaction time to the number of stimulus–response alternatives (or amount of uncertainty) in a task…" http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17470218.2017.1322622 Visibility of System Status By Aurora Harley. "Communicating the current state allows users to feel in control of the system, take appropriate actions to reach their goal, and ultimately trust the brand." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/visibility-system-status/ Persuasive Techniques for B2B and Intranets (Video) By Therese Fessenden. "Tips for simplifying decision-making and engagement on B2B and intranet sites." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/persuasive-techniques-b2b-intranets/ [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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