+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 21, Issue 03, July 13, 2022. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 03 CONTENTS. SECTION ONE: New references. What's new at the Web Design Reference site? https://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: HTML. 08: JAVASCRIPT. 09: MISCELLANEOUS. 10: USABILITY. 11: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. SECTION TWO: 12: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. Captions: Humans vs Artificial Intelligence: Who Wins? By Meryl K. Evans. "Captioner Mirabai Knight talks about the advantages and disadvantages of human and artificial intelligence captions." https://equalentry.com/caption-videos-human-vs-automatic-captions/ Survey: Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities By W3C's Cognitive Accessibility Task Force (COGA). "…To make the next version as useful as possible, we would like to understand how people are using the current version, and what might be missing…" https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSczlviGQgUNfdo9WXjK4qkY-liq9_gnlt4s76ho-4xhXYSJpg/viewform Android Accessibility: Roles and TalkBack By Graeme Coleman. "…This blog post looks at when it is acceptable for a role not to be announced, the roles that TalkBack does announce, and what this means for conformance to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)"…" https://tetralogical.com/blog/2022/07/07/android-accessibility-roles-and-talkback/ Synchronization Accessibility User Requirements (SAUR) Note Published By Shawn Lawton Henry. "W3C WAI announces the publication of Synchronization Accessibility User Requirements as a W3C Group Note…" https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-announce/2022JulSep/0001.html Accessibility Awareness on a Global Scale: Bringing Tech Professionals to Our Movement of Equality (Video) By Jennison Asuncion. Jennison's talks about Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), the GAAD Pledge, and open source in his July 2022 NFB National Convention presentation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdl0_xdIh9w&t=3744s An Accessibility-First Approach To Chart Visual Design By Kent Eisenhuth & Kai Chang. "Using a data visualization case study, we will explore how an accessibility-first approach led us down the path of creating a better visual design for charts. Throughout the article, we will highlight how we used the seemingly constraining Web Content Accessibility Standards (WCAG) to become an empowering factor in our design process. We will also discuss how this approach led us to an unexpected yet better outcome for everyone…" https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/07/accessibility-first-approach-chart-visual-design/ Guidance on Web Accessibility and the ADA (PDF) By U.S. Department of Justice. "This guidance describes how state and local governments and businesses open to the public can make sure that their websites are accessible to people with disabilities as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)…" https://beta.ada.gov/assets/_pdfs/web-guidance.pdf The Ultimate Guide to Debugging Accessibility Issues By Giovani Camara. "…This guide is meant to help anyone trying to debug an accessibility issue or discover why a problem is occurring…" https://giovanicamara.com/blog/ultimate-guide-to-debugging-accessibility-issues/ Change Management in Accessibility: Strategic Execution Framework By Michael Harshbarger. "This blog post is part five, our final post in a series on change management for accessibility…" https://www.deque.com/blog/change-management-in-accessibility-strategic-execution-framework/ Casey Leads Bipartisan Letter Demanding Answers from Department of Justice on Lack of Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities By The United States Senate Special Committee On Aging. "Today, U.S. Senate Aging Committee Chairman Bob Casey (D-PA) led a bipartisan group of Senators in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding information on web accessibility across the federal government…" https://www.aging.senate.gov/press-releases/casey-leads-bipartisan-letter-demanding-answers-from-department-of-justice-on-lack-of-web-accessibility-for-people-with-disabilities Professional Development Courses Must Be Accessible: New Lawsuit Settlement in Case Against SHRM By Lainey Feingold. "This is an article about a lawsuit settlement. Deaf and hard of hearing professionals sued a big company that offers professional development programs. The company is called The Society of Human Relations Management (SHRM). SHRM agreed it would provide captions and sign language interpreters for certain programs and events. It will also develop policies…" https://www.lflegal.com/2022/07/shrm-settlement/ Digital Accessibility Legal Updates on LFLegal (May 1 - July 10, 2022) By Lainey Feingold. "This article is about new things in the digital access legal space. It has links to other parts of this website…" https://www.lflegal.com/2022/07/july-legal-updates/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. It's Mid-2022 and Browsers (Mostly Safari) Still Break Accessibility via Display Properties By Adrian Roselli. "…Chrome cleaned itself up and has held steady for more than 20 versions. Firefox needs work, but at least saw a tiny improvement. Safari made one tiny improvement but has a much bigger deficit, and I don't trust it will improve much given its now twice-promised fix for display: contents…" https://adrianroselli.com/2022/07/its-mid-2022-and-browsers-mostly-safari-still-break-accessibility-via-display-properties.html The Future of CSS: Variable Units, powered by Custom Properties By Bramus Van Damme. "Recently the CSS Working Group approved to start work on the css-variables-2 specification. First planned addition is support for 'Custom Units'. Let's take a look…" https://www.bram.us/2022/07/08/the-future-of-css-variable-units-powered-by-custom-properties/ +03: COLOR. Why APCA as a New Contrast Method? By Andrew Somers. "Readability is a critically important aspect of web content, affecting 99% of internet users. For years, the WCAG 2.x contrast guidelines provided some guidance toward readability but are being replaced for the future WCAG 3.0. Here is an overview of the need for this change and discussion of the candidate replacement, the Accessible Perceptual Contrast Algorithm (APCA)…" https://git.apcacontrast.com/documentation/WhyAPCA +04: DRUPAL. Creating Content with Accessibility as the Default: Celebrating Drupal's Olivero Theme and Calling for More Blind Contributors (Video) By Mike Gifford. Mike's presentation at the National Federation of the Blind convention on July 10, 2022. Mike's presentation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdl0_xdIh9w&t=5813s +05: EVALUATION & TESTING. Finding UX Research Participants Free of Charge By Peter Veto. "…User panels…are lists of relevant participants who would be motivated to join your research and help you understand your target personas through their participation…" https://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2022/07/finding-ux-research-participants-free-of-charge.php Everything You Need to Know About A/B Testing By Toby Biddle. "In this guide, we'll be sharing everything you need to know about A/B testing…" https://www.loop11.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-a-b-testing/ UX and User Personas: How to Get it Right By Toby Biddle. "This blog post will help you create UX personas that not only work well for your website design, but are also capable of boosting revenue by basing personas on accurate and actionable customer insights…" https://www.loop11.com/ux-and-user-personas-how-to-get-it-right/ +06: EVENTS. Accessible Social Media July 14, 2022. Online https://go.3playmedia.com/wbnr-07-14-2022-social Boston Accessibility Meetup Online July 21, 2022. https://www.meetup.com/a11yboston/events/286879923/ Role-Based Analysis of WCAG 2.2 July 25, 2022. Online https://www.meetup.com/accessibility-twin-cities/events/286465246/ Implementing Accessibility Early July 26, 2022. Toronto, Ontario, Canada https://www.meetup.com/a11yto/events/287062791/ Interface Design Patterns UX Training September 9-October 7, 2022. Online https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops/workshops/vitaly-friedman-interface-design-patterns-live-ux-training-autumn/ Designing Better UX With Top Tasks UX with Gerry McGovern September 13-27, 2022. Online https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops/workshops/gerry-mcgovern/ +07: HTML. Why the HTML Outlining Algorithm Was Removed From the Spec - the Truth Will Shock You! By Bruce Lawson. "…it has never worked. No web browser has implemented that outlining algorithm. If you used

across your documents, it has always had a flat structure. Nothing has been taken away; this part of the spec has always been a wish, but has never been reality…" https://brucelawson.co.uk/2022/why-the-html-outlining-algorithm-was-removed-from-the-spec-the-truth-will-shock-you/ Two Levels of Customising By Hidde de Vries. "The proposed will have powerful styling options and full control over the different parts…" https://hidde.blog/custom-select-with-selectmenu/ +08: JAVASCRIPT. Statements Vs. Expressions By Josh W. Comeau. "…In this blog post, I'm going to share some of the epiphanies I've had about this distinction, and how we can use this information in our day-to-day work…" https://www.joshwcomeau.com/javascript/statements-vs-expressions/ Fundamentals Matter By Chris Ferdinandi. "…We're struggling with a lack of fundamental skills. Those websites that don't load on slow connections, or break completely when a JS file fails to load, or don't work for people with visual or physical impairments? That's not an issue of time. It's an issue of fundamentals. Fundamentals may change, but they always matter." https://gomakethings.com/fundamentals-matter/ +09: MISCELLANEOUS. Disabled And Here Collection By Affect The Verb. "This stock library is a disability-led effort to provide free and inclusive images from our own perspective, with photos and illustrations celebrating disabled Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC)." https://affecttheverb.com/collection/ Design Thinking Activities (Video) By Sarah Gibbons. The 6 stages of the design thinking process can be supported by a very wide range of UX methods and activities. Don't limit yourself to the most commonly mentioned methods. https://www.nngroup.com/videos/design-thinking-activities/ +10: USABILITY. Five Questions for University UX Professionals By Tanner Kohler. "Prospective university students decide whether to apply to a school based on a few basic questions. They expect university websites and advertisements to be personalized to their needs and questions." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/university-ux-professionals/ Writing Content for Generalists vs. Specialists (Video) By Kate Moran. "Content writers should always avoid jargon, but what counts as jargon depends on your audience. Determine whether a specific word is meaningless jargon or meaningful terminology." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/writing-digital-copy-specialists/ 7 Principles of Human Psychology for Improving Your Website's UX By David Morneau. "…In this article, we will guide you through 7 principles of human psychology that can help you boost your website's UX…" https://www.loop11.com/7-principles-of-human-psychology-for-improving-your-websites-ux/ +11: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. Water-mad Digital Devices By Gerry McGovern. "Making electronic devices is incredibly water intense…" https://gerrymcgovern.com/water-mad-digital-devices/ CPU Timeline in Web Inspector By WebKit. "…CPU usage timeline lets developers measure a page's CPU usage, estimate its energy impact, and more easily investigate sources of script execution that may be contributing to poor energy utilization…" https://webkit.org/blog/8993/cpu-timeline-in-web-inspector/ [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +12: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? Accessibility Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/accessibility.html Association Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/associations.html Book Listings. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/books.html Cascading Style Sheets Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/css.html Color Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/color.html Drupal Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/drupal.html Evaluation & Testing Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/testing.html Event Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/events.html HTML Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/html.html Information Architecture Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/architecture.html JavaScript Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/javascript.html Miscellaneous Web Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/misc.html Navigation Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/navigation.html PHP Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/php.html Sites & Blogs Listing. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/sites.html Standards, Guidelines & Pattern Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/standards.html Tool Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/tools.html Typography Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/type.html Usability Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/usability.html WebWaste & Sustainability Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/webwaste.html XML Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/xml.html [Section two ends.] ++END NOTES. + SUBSCRIPTION INFO. 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