+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 10, Issue 45, May 1, 2013. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 45 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: EVENTS. 04: HTML5. 05: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. 06: JAVASCRIPT. 07: MISCELLANEOUS. 08: PHP. 09: TOOLS. 10: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 11: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. Google Docs Accessibility with Shawn Lauriat By Elle Waters. "Derek: You've probably heard this before: 'Accessibility is easy'. And there are parts of accessibility that are easy. But at the same time, some people are tackling really tough problems, like Shawn Lauriat who works on Google Docs Accessibility..." http://simplyaccessible.com/article/shawn-lauriat/ Low Vision Survey Results By Jared Smith. "Results of WebAIMs recent survey for those with low vision are now available at http://webaim.org/projects/lowvisionsurvey/. A few highlights are found below. The results of our motor disabilities survey will be available soon." http://webaim.org/blog/low-vision-survey-results/ Accessible Forms 1 - Labels and Identification By Roger Hudson. "The first in this series of articles about improving the accessibility of web page forms..." http://usability.com.au/2013/04/accessible-forms-1-labels-and-identification/ Using a Transparent Image as an Icon Fallback By Roger Johansson. Sometimes designs contain button styling that is difficult to create with CSS alone. The 'official' way of dealing with this is to either use an image button () or put the image in a button element (). http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/201304/using_a_transparent_image_as_an_icon_fallback/ Accessible Audio Descriptions for HTML5 Video By James Edwards. "A client recently asked me to produce an accessible video player, and one of the features she was very keen to have is audio descriptions. Audio descriptions are intended for people who are blind or have impaired vision, providing additional spoken information to describe important visual details." http://www.sitepoint.com/accessible-audio-descriptions-for-html5-video/ Requirements for Accessible PDF part 3 - Authoring Best Practices By Deque Systems. "While this post is not meant as tutorial on creating accessible content with Microsoft Word or OpenOffice, keeping the following pointers in mind will help build accessibility right in the source documents - this list covers a few of the most important things to keep in mind. And as we saw in the previous posts, building accessibility in our source document is usually better than bolting it on top of the document once it has been converted to PDF..." http://www.deque.com/accessible-pdf-best-practices Be Careful While Using HTML 5 Semantics and ARIA Roles By Rakesh Paladugula. "HTML 5 the next generation hyper text mark-up language for developing web pages and ARIA Accessible Rich Internet Applications for accessibility are the hot topics in the front-end community. In the process of making the mark-up more semantic and robust HTML 5 have come up with new tags such as
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