+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 14, Issue 29, January 14, 2016. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 29 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: MISCELLANEOUS. 07: NAVIGATION. 08: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS. 09: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 10: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. Accessibility for Business and Pleasure By Sarah Horton and David Sloan. "...Can we rethink accessibility in more effective and sustainable terms-ones that generate a positive return on investment for providers and a pleasurable user experience for everyone?..." https://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2016/01/accessibility-for-business-and-pleasure/ 1.3.1 Info and Relationships By Rakesh Paladugula. "Web content is displayed on the pages in different presentational cues to convey meaning and relationship. Following are few example situations where presentation plays role to convey important information to the users." http://www.maxability.co.in/2016/01/1-3-1-info-and-relationships/ On Overlays as a Means of Resolving Website Accessibility Issues By Karl Groves. "...It is important that any overlay needs to be regarded as temporary, for one important reason: if the underlying UI code changes it will break the 'fix'." http://www.karlgroves.com/2016/01/07/on-overlays-as-a-means-of-resolving-website-accessibility-issues/ 10k Tweets Won't Make Images Accessible By Adrian Roselli. "... What's that? You can't see what he said unless you can download, and then see, and then read the image? To some, that (lazy) behavior justifies the move past 140 characters. To others, it doesn't solve the biggest issue in Twitter today - inaccessible images..." http://adrianroselli.com/2016/01/10k-tweets-wont-make-images-accessible.html Denny's Announces Digital Accessibility Initiative By Law Office of Lainey Feingold. "Denny's worked in Structured Negotiation on its digital accessibility initiative with the American Council of the Blind and blind customer Lisa Irving. (No lawsuit was filed or necessary)..." http://lflegal.com/2016/01/dennys-press/ Extensions to WCAG 2.0 By Rakesh Paladugula. "The WCAG 2.0 standards holds good even after 7 years since they are recommended in 2008..." http://www.maxability.co.in/2016/01/extensions-to-wcag-2-0/ How to Design for Accessibility By Emma Pratt. "This guideline will introduce accessibility thinking and how to design usable experiences for everyone." http://www.bbc.co.uk/gel/guidelines/how-to-design-for-accessibility Section 508, WCAG 2.0, Oh My! By Tracy Mitrano. "...Web accessibility standards play an extraordinary role in global disabilities rights..." https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/law-policy-and-it/section-508-wcag-20-oh-my +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Sass: @-Rules and Directives By Steven Bradley. "While CSS isn't a programming language, it includes some programming-like features..." http://vanseodesign.com/css/sass-at-rules-and-directives/ CSS Prefixed and Unprefixed Properties By Daniel Glazman. "I used to be quite a heavy user of Peter Beverloo's list of CSS properties, indicating all prefixed versions, but he stopped maintaining it a while ago, unfortunately. So I wrote my own..." http://www.glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?post/2016/01/13/CSS-Prefixed-and-unprefixed-properties +03: EVALUATION & TESTING. Remote User Research & Usability Methods By Anna Iurchenko. "If you're working with an audience across the globe, all under budget and time constraints, remote user testing can provide the rich data to help make informed decisions..." http://uxmag.com/articles/remote-user-research-usability-methods 7 Methods for Discovering Usability Problems By Jeff Sauro. "...These methods can be broken down into empirical (usability testing, surveys, and analytics) or inspection methods (expert review, heuristic evaluation, cognitive walkthrough, and guideline review). Each has their pros and cons but all can be a part of an organization's approach for uncovering problems and creating a better user experience..." http://www.measuringu.com/blog/discovering-problems.php +04: EVENTS. SVG Summit January 21, 2016 Online http://environmentsforhumans.com/2016/svg-summit/ 2016 UXDEVSummit Conference February 4-6, 2016. Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A. http://uxdsummit.com/ SustainableUX February 9, 2016. Online http://sustainableux.com/ React.js Conf February 22-23, 2016. San Francisco, California, U.S.A. https://conf.reactjs.com/ +05: JAVASCRIPT. ES6 Classes Have Inner Names By Axel Rauschmayer. "This blog post explains that classes have lexical inner names, just like named function expressions..." http://www.2ality.com/2016/01/classes-inner-names.html +06: MISCELLANEOUS. Adaptive Web Design - Designing Experiences for People By Aaron Gustafson. "A website built following the philosophy of progressive enhancement will be usable by anyone on any device, using any browser. It all begins with embracing the concept of experience as a continuum, as Aaron Gustafson explains in this chapter from Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement, 2nd Edition." http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx +07: NAVIGATION. The Navigation Bar Is an Affordance, Stop Removing It By UX Movement. "...The navigation bar is an affordance...What's the point of having a navigation if you're not going to make it easy for users to see?..." http://uxmovement.com/navigation/the-navigation-bar-is-an-affordance-stop-removing-it/ +08: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS. Of Patterns and Power - Web Standards Then and Now By Jeffrey Zeldman. "...too many developers and designers in our amnesiac community have begun to believe and share bad ideas-ideas, like CSS isn't needed, HTML isn't needed, progressive enhancement is old-fashioned and unnecessary, and so on. Ideas that, if followed, will turn the web back what it was becoming in the late 1990s: a wasteland of walled gardens that said no to more people than they welcomed. Let that never be so. We have the power. As Maimonides, were he alive today, would tell us: he who excludes a single user destroys a universe. Web standards now and forever." http://www.zeldman.com/2016/01/05/13913/ +09: USABILITY. User-Experience Quiz - 2015 UX Year in Review By Raluca Budiu. "Test your usability knowledge by taking our quiz. All questions and answers are based on articles that we published last year." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-quiz/ [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +10: 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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