+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 14, Issue 22, November 27, 2015. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 22 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: COLOR. 04: EVALUATION & TESTING. 05: EVENTS. 06: HTML5. 07: JAVASCRIPT. 08: MISCELLANEOUS. 09: NAVIGATION. 10: PHP. 11: TOOLS. 12: TYPOGRAPHY. 13: USABILITY. 14: XML. SECTION TWO: 15: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. WCAG 2.0 Parsing Criterion is a PITA By Steve Faulkner. "The WCAG 2.0 Parsing Criterion is a Pain In The Ass (PITA) because the checking of it throws up lots of potential errors that if required to fix, may result in a lot of extra work (in some cases busy work) for developers. This is largely due to the lack of robust tools for producing a set of specific issues that require fixing..." https://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/11/wcag-2-0-parsing-criterion-is-a-pita/ 3.3.4 Error Prevention (Legal, Financial, Data) By Rakesh Paladugula. "For Web pages that cause legal commitments or financial transactions for the user to occur, that modify or delete user-controllable data in data storage systems, or that submit user test responses, at least one of the following is true: (Level AA) Reversible: Submissions are reversible..." http://www.maxability.co.in/2015/11/3-3-4-error-prevention-legal-financial-data/ Mobile Browser Support for ARIA Roles, States, and Properties By Jonathan Avila. "Last month I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the 1st Annual IAAP Access 2015 Conference, including a session I presented on the current state of mobile browser support for ARIA. After the session a number of people asked me to share the test results and related content which I am outlining in this post..." http://www.ssbbartgroup.com/blog/mobile-browser-support-for-aria-roles-states-and-properties/ Labeled With Love By Aaron Gustafson. "Forms exist on pretty much every site on the web in one form or another. They are the primary mechanism by which we gather information from our users.1 Of course, before anyone can fill out a form, they need to know what it's asking for. Labeling is key..." https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/labeled-with-love/ Accessible Names - Label All the Things! (Part 2) By Michelle Williamson. "Native accessible name properties that we discussed in part 1 are all great, but there are situations where these don't suffice..." http://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/accessible-names-label-all-things-part-2 National Federation of the Blind and Scribd Agree to Collaborate and Make-Reading Subscription Service Accessible By National Federation of the Blind. "...As part of an agreement between the two organizations, Scribd will rearchitect its website to make most subscription content compatible with screen access software for the blind..." https://nfb.org/national-federation-blind-and-scribd-agree-collaborate-make-reading-subscription-service-accessible McLennan County, Texas Agrees to Website Accessibility By Deborah Edwards-Onoro. "...According to the settlement agreement, the Department of Justice (DOJ) found McLennan County violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), specifically Title II, which prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities by state and local governments..." http://www.lireo.com/mclennan-county-texas-agrees-to-website-accessibility/ Fall 2015 Update - More Delay for DOJ Web Regulations By Lainey Feingold. "...As the agency has done many times before, the update boils down to a five letter word: Delay. Probably until 2018 for private sector websites..." http://lflegal.com/2015/11/doj-fall-2015/ Justice Department Delays Web Accessibility Regulations For At Least Three More Years, Leaving Businesses in Turmoil By Seyfarth Shaw. "In an astonishing move, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it will not issue any regulations for public accommodations websites until fiscal year 2018-eight years after it started the rulemaking process with an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking..." http://www.adatitleiii.com/2015/11/justice-department-delays-web-accessibility-regulations-for-at-least-three-more-years-leaving-businesses-in-turmoil/ U.S. Department of Justice Further Delays ADA Title III Rulemaking on Website Accessibility By Kenneth J. Yerkes, et al. "...entities subject to either title II or title III of the ADA are well-advised to proactively address the accessibility of their websites." http://www.natlawreview.com/article/us-department-justice-further-delays-ada-title-iii-rulemaking-website-accessibility Let's Talk about Disabilities, Technology, and Design By Sarah Horton. "We don't always know what words to use when talking about disabilities, and this keeps us from having important conversations and making progress..." http://sarahhortondesign.com/2015/11/19/lets-talk-about-disabilities/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS By W3C CSS Working Group. "That should be corrected if anyone invents a time machine..." https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes +03: COLOR. Finding the Right Color Palettes for Data Visualizations By Samantha Zhang. "While good color palettes are easy to come by these days, finding the right color palette for data visualizations is still quite challenging..." https://medium.com/graphiq-engineering/finding-the-right-color-palettes-for-data-visualizations-fcd4e707a283#.yfuwi1kh8 +04: EVALUATION & TESTING. 5 Mistakes People Make When Writing Usability Tasks By Markus Pirker. "While running Userbrain, we noticed 5 common mistakes that we would like to share with you in the interest of learning. And also to tell you how to avoid making those same usability mistakes." https://userbrain.net/blog/5-mistakes-people-make-when-writing-usability-tasks Beginner's Guide to Test Automation Tools and Frameworks for Mobile Platforms By Mohammed S. Sayeed. "Wouldn't it be great if all the popular Test Automation tools and frameworks for mobile platforms are listed under one umbrella instead of having to google for a particular tool or framework?..." https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/beginners-guide-test-automation-tools-frameworks-mobile-sayeed?trk=hp-feed-article-title-like +05: EVENTS. Functional Accessibility Evaluator, AInspector Sidebar and Accessibility Bookmarklets Webinars December 3, 2015. Online. http://easi.cc/clinic.htm#december +06: HTML5. HTML5 is the New Flash By Steven Pemberton. "...The web is the way now that we distribute information. We will need the web pages we create now to be readable in 100 years time, just as we can still read 100-year-old books. Requiring a webpage to depend on a particular 100-year-old implementation of Javascript is not exactly evidence of future-thinking...." http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2015/11-06-xml-amsterdam/ +07: JAVASCRIPT. I Turned Off JavaScript for a Whole Week and It Was Glorious By Klint Finley. "There's another web out there, a better web hiding just below the surface of the one we surf from our phones and tablets and laptops every day..." http://www.wired.com/2015/11/i-turned-off-javascript-for-a-whole-week-and-it-was-glorious/ +08: MISCELLANEOUS. Understanding the Web with Jeremy Keith By Jeremy Keith. "A transcript of an interview on The Web Ahead podcast, episode 110." https://adactio.com/articles/9843 Design of HTML (Mosaic) Pages to Increase their Accessibility to Users with Disabilities Strategies for Today and Tomorrow, Version 1.0 (January 1995) By Gregg C. Vanderheiden. "When discussing the accessibility of Mosaic, it is important to break the problem down into the three basic components..." http://trace.wisc.edu/archive/html_guidelines/version1.html +09: NAVIGATION. Picking the Right Methods to Improve Navigation By Jeff Sauro. "Despite improvements in search technology, most users still take a browse-first approach to find products and information on websites. That makes navigation important..." http://www.measuringu.com/blog/methods-navigation.php +10: PHP. PHP vs Ruby - Let's All Just Get Along By Phil Sturgeon. "Quite often you see developers who have a lot of experience in one language try to play with another, then make a rather quick comparison between the two. This comparison is usually quite worthless, but the clickbait titles get them a lot of traffic..." http://www.sitepoint.com/php-vs-ruby-lets-all-just-get-along/ +11: TOOLS. Paul Adam Bookmarklets For Accessibility By Rakesh Paladugula. "Paul J Adam the well known expert in the accessibility industry has published bookmarklets for testing the accessibility bugs on web pages. These bookmarklets are easy to use. All that you need is a web browser and internet connection to use them..." http://www.maxability.co.in/2015/11/paul-adam-bookmarklets-for-accessibility-2/ +12: TYPOGRAPHY. The Letterform in a World Without Handwriting By Dmitry Fadeyev. "As handwriting gets replaced by typing, and as students move from the pen to the computer, the essence of the letterform undergoes a change..." http://fadeyev.net/the-letterform-in-a-world-without-handwriting/ +13: USABILITY. Simplicity Wins over Abundance of Choice By Hoa Loranger. "As the number of choices increases, so does the effort required to collect information and make good decisions. Featuritis can be an exhausting disease for users. " http://www.nngroup.com/articles/simplicity-vs-choice/ World Usability Day 2015 Videos Now Available By David Rosen. "...If you weren't able to make it to the event, or if you want to revisit something that you saw, videos of the day's events are available on this page..." http://it.umn.edu/usability-services/news/world-usability-day-2015-videos-now The State Of Airline Websites 2015: Lessons Learned By Joshua Johnson. "With this article, we start exploring various industries and study the current state of front-end, UX and performance of relatively complex websites. First up are airline websites..." http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/airline-websites-2015-front-end-performance-ux-lessons-learned The Homepage is Dead. Long Live the Homepage. By Marcus Lillington. "Or, more precisely, the homepage is not as popular as it once was..." http://headscape.co.uk/web-development/the-homepage-is-dead/ Evaluation of a Game Used to Teach Usability to Undergraduate Students in Computer Science By Fabiane Barreto Vavassori Benitti and Leonardo Sommariva. "There is a growing recognition of the importance of teaching usability, which has been discussed in various forms in undergraduate courses in areas related to Information Technology..." http://uxpajournal.org/usability-game-computer-science-students/ +15: XML. Tips for Creating and Exporting Better SVGs for the Web By Sara Soueidan. "Working with SVG in a RWD workflow usually involves a design phase and a development phase. The design phase is usually handled by designers who may or may not know how to code..." http://sarasoueidan.com/blog/svg-tips-for-designers/ How To Adjust The Baseline Alignment Of SVG Text By Steven Bradley. "When you set coordinates to position SVG text, you're setting the location of the left edge of the text and you're setting the location of the baseline of the font..." http://vanseodesign.com/web-design/svg-text-baseline-alignment/ [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +15: 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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