+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 14, Issue 39, March 24, 2016. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 39 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: MISCELLANEOUS. 05: NAVIGATION. 06: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS. 07: TOOLS. 08: TYPOGRAPHY. 09: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 10: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. You Guys Need Captions! - Pharrell "Happy" Parody (Video) By 3Play Media. (Hat tip to Deborah Edwards-Onoro) "This video is meant to build awareness for closed captioning and accessibility..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQWlYYFXM2M Understanding WCAG & WCAG Techniques Updated March 2016 By Michael Cooper. "W3C WAI today published updates to two supporting documents for Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) 2.0..." https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2016JanMar/0176.html Call for Review - Accessibility Requirements for People with Low Vision By Shawn Henry. "The W3C WAI invites you to comment on the First Public Working Draft of Accessibility Requirements for People with Low Vision..." https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2016JanMar/0174.html Metzessible PDF/UA Series (Videos) By Jon Metz. "Since it can be super hard finding help on making a properly tagged accessible PDF, I've decided to make some videos to help you get started..." https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmfVOnJxeSEXsEKv2i20nYMHYuFEcl4fO Blind Customers and the Committee File Nationwide Class Action Lawsuit Challenging Sweetgreen's Failure to Make its Online Ordering Accessible to the Blind By Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. "Class action suit alleges sweetgreen violated the Americans with Disabilities Act..." http://www.washlaw.org/news-a-media/470-03-22-16-press-release-sweetgreen Will Apps Become the Next Disability Lawsuit Target? By Frank C. Morris, Jr. "...Because apps are a key link between the public and a business, the accessibility of apps to individuals with disabilities, especially those individuals who are blind or have low vision, is unfortunately likely to become the newest contested cyber battleground for claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and similar state and local laws..." http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/20/will-apps-become-the-next-disability-lawsuit-target/ WordPress Goes WCAG - What Does It Mean? By Joel Dolson. "I would love to be able to say that the recent announcement that WordPress has embraced WCAG 2 level AA as a guideline for new code means that WordPress is going to instantly become amazingly accessible. But that wouldn't be true..." https://www.joedolson.com/2016/03/wordpress-goes-wcag-mean/ Welcoming ALL Gifts By Scott Marshall. "Some of our campuses have policies that say our digital resources must be accessible to people with disabilities. Widespread lack of enforcement of these policies is not only unwelcoming, it might be insulting. At a minimum, it's oppressive..." http://campus-climate.umn.edu/content/welcoming-all-gifts +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Attribute Selectors: All the Bells and Whistles By Virginia DeBolt. "There are many types of selectors in CSS. If you're still making your way through the darkness with nothing more than a few element selectors, a few classes, some ids, and the occasional pseudo selector, you need to find your way into the light with attribute selectors..." http://www.webteacher.ws/2016/03/22/attribute-selectors-theyre-unicorns-and-rainbows/ Grid Layout and Flexbox City By Jeffery Zeldman. "CSS grid layout is nearly finalized. Which means it's time for designers and front-end developers to set the flags enabling their browsers to support the new specification, put CSS Flexbox through its paces, and see if anything breaks..." http://www.zeldman.com/2016/03/17/css-grid-layout-and-flexbox-city/ +03: EVENTS. UI21 October 31-November 2, 2016. Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. https://ui21.uie.com/ Accessing Higher Ground November 14-18, 2016. Westminster, Colorado, U.S.A. http://accessinghigherground.org/ +04: MISCELLANEOUS. The Great Big List from the 2016 CSUN International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference By Christopher Phillips. (Hat tip to Jennifer Sutton) "After missing last year, I'm excited to be back at the CSUN (California State University, Northridge) Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference. New resources will be added as they come in..." http://curbcut.net/events/csun16-disabilities-technology/ Learn From the Past, Enhance for the Future By Aaron Gustafson. "I had the great pleasure of delivering the closing keynote for the first EnhanceConf. I wanted to talk about voice and the future of 'headless' user interfaces. Here's what I had to say..." https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/learn-from-the-past-enhance-for-the-future/ D-Day: Ending or Milestone? By Elie Sloim. "So you've been working for months on the new version of your Website? I guess you're pretty sure that the day this new version will go online will be a very important date for the users, for your customers, or for the Web, maybe. But it won't. The day your new version goes online is not an ending but the beginning of a story with your users." http://openweb.eu.org/articles/d-day-ending-or-milestone +05: NAVIGATION. The Hamburger Icon Debate By Steven Bradley. "Type 'hamburger icon' into Google and once you scroll past the images of the icons, you'll notice a few articles about the history of the icon and a lot of articles debating if it's the solution for all our small screen navigation problems or if the hamburger icon will destroy humanity. " http://vanseodesign.com/web-design/hamburger-icon-debate/ +06: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS. Specref By Tobie Langel. "An Open-Source, Community-Maintained Database of Web Standards & Related References..." http://www.specref.org/ +07: TOOLS. Grackle Talks By grackledocs.com. "Grackle Talks automatically checks your Google Doc against accessibility standards and can create tagged PDF direct to your Drive..." https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/grackle-talks/cefmiobmlgfdpdgfcaghcdkhmokfkhla Check the Accessibility of a PDF Document By European Internet Inclusion Initiative. "The service is still being developed. If you discover a bug, have questions, or suggestions for improvement, please give us your feedback..." http://checkers.eiii.eu/en/pdfcheck/ +08: TYPOGRAPHY. Webfonts By Adam Morse. "...System fonts can be beautiful. Webfonts are not a requirement for great typography..." http://mrmrs.io/writing/2016/03/17/webfonts/ +09: USABILITY. How Chunking Helps Content Processing By Kate Meyer. "Chunking is a concept that originates from the field of cognitive psychology. UX professionals can break their text and multimedia content into smaller chunks to help users process, understand, and remember it better." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/chunking/ [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +17: 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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