+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 8, Issue 03, July 17, 2009. 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? http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/webdesign/ New links in these categories: 01: ACCESSIBILITY. 02: EVENTS. 03: JAVASCRIPT. 04: PHP. 05: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS. 06: TOOLS. 07: USABILITY. 08: XML. SECTION TWO: 09: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. Relationship Between Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) By Alan Chuter and Yeliz Yesilada, Editors. "This technical report helps Web developers meet both Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 (MWBP). It describes the similarities and differences between requirements in WCAG and MWPB. It is designed primarily to help Web developers who have worked with either WCAG or MWBP to learn about the additional requirements in the other." http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-mwbp-wcag-20090709/ Your Page Title Matters More Than You Think By Skye. "...The page title is the first thing that screen reader users hear when they get to a page, so it's great if it actually tells them what the page is. If every page on your blog has just the name of the home page, that's not so helpful and could even be disorienting if a reader goes from your home page to one of your posts, or vice versa..." http://tinyurl.com/noqxze Keyboard Accessibility in Web Applications, part 2 By Mihai Sucan. "...In the first part of the article we added keyboard shortcuts to a simple paint application. Now we will implement a way to move the pointer inside the drawing canvas using keyboard shortcuts..." http://tinyurl.com/l7rfnc Representative Markey Introduces 21st Century Communications & Video Accessibility Act of 2009 to Make Broadband More Accessible By Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology (COATS). "Before Congress adjourned on June 26, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) introduced the "21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009" (H.R. 3101). This comprehensive measure would modernize disability accessibility mandates in the Communications Act, bringing existing requirements up to date as TV and phone services connect via the Internet and use new digital and broadband technologies..." http://www.coataccess.org/node/4011 +02: EVENTS. The HTML 5 Experiments - Bruce Lawson July 23, 2009. Stanford University Palo Alto, California, U.S.A. http://events.stanford.edu/events/198/19845/ EuroIA Summit '09 September 24-26, 2009. Copenhagen, Denmark http://www.euroia.org Human Work Interaction Design '09 Working Conference on Usability in Social, Cultural and Organizational Contexts October 7-8, 2009. Pune University, India http://hcdc.cdac.in/hwid/ Web Directions South 2009 October 6-9, 2009. Sydney, Australia http://south09.webdirections.org/ +03: JAVASCRIPT. Native Drag and Drop By Remy Sharp. "Along with an army of JavaScript APIs, HTML 5 comes with a Drag and Drop (DnD) API that brings native DnD support to the browser making it much easier to code up..." http://html5doctor.com/native-drag-and-drop/ +04: PHP. More on PHP Performance By Stas Malyshev. "After writing the post criticizing Google's 'performance advice' for PHP beginners, I started thinking Ð OK, I don't like Google's advice, what would I propose instead?..." http://php100.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/php-performance/ +05: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS. HTML5 - The Section Element By Virginia DeBolt. "...The section element is a new semantic element. It groups related content. This might be a part or chapter in a book, a section in a chapter, or anything that had its own heading in HTML 4. Each section may include other new semantic elements such as header and footer, and well as various kinds of HTML elements such as images, paragraphs, list, etc..." http://www.webteacher.ws/2009/07/10/html5-the-section-element/ Semantic Navigation With the Nav Element By Tom Leadbetter. "One of the new elements for HTML 5 is the