+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 16, Issue 07, August 10, 2017. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 07 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: BOOKS. 03: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. 04: COLOR. 05: EVALUATION & TESTING. 06: EVENTS. 07: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. 08: JAVASCRIPT. 09: MISCELLANEOUS. 10: NAVIGATION. 11: TYPOGRAPHY. 12: USABILITY. 13: XML. SECTION TWO: 14: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. 10 Guidelines to Improve Your Web Accessibility By Aerolab. "We put together a list of ten web accessibility guidelines that will guarantee access to your site to any person, in spite of their disabilities..." https://aerolab.co/blog/web-accessibility/ Accessibility for the Future You By Andrea Fercia. "...I'd like to share my thoughts on why accessibility is for everyone, including the future you... https://yoast.com/dev-blog/accessibility-future-you/ Accessibility for Teams By Rob Dodson. "...This article outlines criteria for each of the major disciplines (project manager, UX designer, and developer) so that they can work to incorporate accessibility best practices into their process..." https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/accessibility/a11y-for-teams Best Practices for Conducting an Accessibility Review By Deborah Edwards-Onoro. "At the July 2017 joint meetup of the UX Chicago and Chicago Digital Accessibility and Inclusive Design groups, Joe Welinske, accessibility specialist at Blink UX, presented a case study of their accessibility review of the new VeriCite product..." https://www.lireo.com/best-practices-for-conducting-an-accessibility-review/ Why Automatic Captions Don't Protect You From an ADA Lawsuit By Elisa Edelberg. "...Automatic captions, like YouTube's, only average 60-70% accuracy and therefore will not protect you from a lawsuit. Your content has to be captioned understandably and must meet the standards and requirements outlined in WCAG 2.0 AA in order to be accessible and protect you from the law." http://www.3playmedia.com/2017/08/04/automatic-captions-dont-protect-ada-lawsuit/ Two New York Federal Judges Refuse to Dismiss Website Accessibility Cases By Kristina M. Launey & Minh N. Vu. "Two New York federal judges recently said that the ADA covers websites (even those not connected to a physical place) and one held that working on improving the accessibility of one’s website does not make the ADA claim moot..." http://www.adatitleiii.com/2017/08/two-new-york-federal-judges-refuse-to-dismiss-website-accessibility-cases/ Companies are Losing Web Cases: Spend Money on Web Access, not Lawyers By Law Office of Lainey Feingold. "In less than two months, four different federal judges have said “Yes” to website accessibility. These cases, from Florida, California, and New York, are a wake-up call to every business in the United States that serves the public..." http://www.lflegal.com/2017/08/ny-web-cases/ +02: BOOKS. Kalbag, Laura. Accessibility for Everyone, A Book Apart, 2017. +03: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Changes to the Grid Spec and taking on Multi-Column Layout By Rachel Andrew. "Last week I was in Paris for the CSS Working Group face to face meeting..." https://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2017/08/08/changes-to-the-grid-spec-and-taking-on-multi-column-layout/ CSS Inheritance: An Introduction By Asha Laxmi. "It’s common to see inheritance in action in real life. Unless some other factor comes into play, it’s often the case that tall parents have tall children, and so on. We can see something similar in CSS..." https://www.sitepoint.com/css-inheritance-introduction/ +04: COLOR. What It's Like Being a Color Blind Designer By Lis Andramaioli. "I met Andrei Gomes when I worked for one of the biggest school chains in Brazil, in 2011, coordinating a post-graduate course about digital media..." https://medium.com/uxpressocafe/what-its-like-being-a-color-blind-designer-7a89f025e782 +05: EVALUATION & TESTING. 5 Provocative Views on Usability Testing By David Travis. "...In this article, I'll argue that these 5 common beliefs about usability are false." http://www.userfocus.co.uk/articles/5-provocative-views.html The Illusion of Measuring What Customers Want By Alan Klement. "...there's nothing wrong with using numbers to describe customer preference. It's just necessary to know that these data are qualitative, not quantitative. They are not values themselves, they are descriptions of value. However, too many people either forget this or don't know. So they end up doing things with them that they shouldn't..." https://jtbd.info/the-illusion-of-measuring-what-customers-want-3672a7892eb Heuristic Analysis UX in the Design Process By Norbert Gaal. "...We need to clarify the 3 most important usability inspection methods and understand the relationships between them..." https://blog.intellyo.com/research/heuristic-analysis-ux-in-the-design-process Personas vs. Jobs-to-Be-Done By Page Laubheimer. "Jobs-to-be-done focus on user problems and needs, while well-executed personas include the same information and also add behavioral and attitudinal details." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/personas-jobs-be-done/ How to Present Scientific Findings Online By Kate Meyer. "To appeal to experts, provide concise titles and summaries, use clear headings, charts and figures, and don't overdo visual design." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/scientific-findings-online/ I Want a Pony! - or the Critical Difference Between User Research and Market Research By Leisa Reichelt. "...Both qualitative and quantitative research is important and necessary, but in service design, we should always start with rich, qualitative insights." https://www.dta.gov.au/blog/i-want-a-pony/ Cleaning Data From Surveys and Online Research By Jeff Sauro. "...This process helps ensure we're obtaining higher quality results and valid findings from our studies..." https://measuringu.com/cleaning-data/ +06: EVENTS. UX & Accessibility: How We Work Together, Benefits, Tips & Tricks August 15, 2017. Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. https://www.meetup.com/a11yTC/events/242199979/ Inclusive Design - An Evening with Derek Featherstone Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. August 29, 2017. https://www.meetup.com/a11ychi/events/242228587/ CONNECT.TECH September 20-22, 2017. Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. http://www.connect.tech/ Generate London September 20-22, 2017. London, England, United Kingdom https://www.generateconf.com/london Web Unleashed September 24-26, 2017. Toronto, Canada http://fitc.ca/event/webu17/ +07: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. What is Information Architecture? By Optimal Workshop. "Learn all the basics of IA and more..." https://www.optimalworkshop.com/guides/what-is-information-architecture Does the Fidelity of a Prototype Affect Results? By Jeff Sauro. "...low-fidelity prototypes are reasonable, although not perfect substitutes, for high-fidelity or full products for identifying usability problems and are able to generate reliable estimates of subjective ease ratings but less accurate for task times and aesthetic measures." https://measuringu.com/prototype-fidelity/ +08: JAVASCRIPT. The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Fatigue: Realities of our Industry By Lucas Fernandes da Costa. "My first advice for anyone suffering from JS Fatigue...stay aware that you don't need to know everything" http://lucasfcosta.com/2017/07/17/The-Ultimate-Guide-to-JavaScript-Fatigue.html +09: MISCELLANEOUS. A Brief History of Women in Computing By Faruk Ateş. "...You can’t cherry-pick a couple of scientific studies you like and use them to justify your arguments against diversity programs, while carefully ignoring the mountains of other scientific studies that show both how and why diversity programs are good, beneficial to all, and worth investing in..." http://farukat.es/journal/2017/08/a-brief-history-of-women-in-computing/ +10: NAVIGATION. Don't Mistake Common UI Patterns for Best Practices By Callie de Roussan. "A hard look at how the browse experience translates in the digital space..." https://medium.com/ruxers/dont-mistake-common-ui-patterns-for-best-practices-4a1c8d4bef9a 6 Ways Innovative Navigation Enhances UX By Paddi MacDonnell. "There are two aspects to designing navigation: How will the content be structured, and how will that structure be presented to the user..." https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2017/08/6-ways-innovative-navigation-enhances-ux/ +11: TYPOGRAPHY. Jump Start Responsive Web Design - Chapter 4: Responsive Text By Chris Ward. "This is a sample chapter from the Second Edition of Chris Ward's book Jump Start Responsive Web Design..." http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2017/08/jump-start-responsive-web-design.php +12: USABILITY. Principles for Mobile Design By Steven Hoober. "Using design principles means adding a layer of structure and meaning to your design tactics to help you to make better design decisions." http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2017/08/principles-for-mobile-design.php Stopwords in the User Interface By Ilya Birman. "The words that usually signal problems with the user interface..." https://uxplanet.org/stopwords-in-the-user-interface-ce5268d0530 +13: XML. Accessible SVG Tables By Léonie Watson. "SVG has no native semantics for representing structures like tables, but ARIA1.1 introduces a number of roles that can be used to polyfill the necessary semantic information..." https://tink.uk/accessible-svg-tables/ [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +14: 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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