+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 16, Issue 10, August 31, 2017. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 10 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: DRUPAL. 04: EVALUATION & TESTING. 05: EVENTS. 06: HTML. 07: JAVASCRIPT. 08: MISCELLANEOUS. 09: NAVIGATION. 10: TOOLS. 11: TYPOGRAPHY. 12: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 13: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. What's New in WCAG 2.1 By Adrian Roselli. "…Everything below is pulled from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, W3C Working Draft dated 16 August 2017, but if you are reading this well after that date and don't care so much, just visit the latest release instead…" http://adrianroselli.com/2017/08/whats-new-in-wcag-2-1.html Inclusive Design - An Evening with Derek Featherstone (Video) By Derek Featherstone. "This presentation will touch on aspects of design that considers everyone. Then we'll open it up for an engaging Q&A session (bordering a roundtable discussion) on inclusive design and how it can be baked into our daily workflows…" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh-mWhxV77k Tooltips and Toggletips By Heydon Pickering. "…In this article, I'll be looking at situations which might call for a tooltip or else a toggletip, and formulating inclusive implementations for each…" https://inclusive-components.design/tooltips-toggletips/ Auto-Captions vs. Editing Auto-Captions vs. Re-Captioning in Post-Production By Patrick Loftus. "…for organizations that want to both accommodate the needs of those who watch video without sound and those who cannot hear, it is in their best interests to seek the most efficient and scalable captioning solution that works for their purposes. Whether it's in-house, through a third-party service, or a combination of both, what matters most is that your process produces captions that are accurate and high-quality." http://www.3playmedia.com/2017/08/25/recaptioning-vs-editing-live-captions-and-autocaptions/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Screen Readers and CSS: Are We Going Out of Style (and into Content)? By John Northup. "Developers often ask how various CSS declarations translate to the screen reader experience…" http://webaim.org/blog/screen-readers-and-css/ Problem Space By Jeremey Keith. "…I very much appreciate the efforts that people have put into coming up with great naming systems and methodologies, even the ones I don't necessarily agree with. They're all aiming to make that overlap of HTML and CSS less painful. But the really hard problem is where people overlap." https://adactio.com/journal/12759 +03: DRUPAL. Accessibility Issues in Drupal + What You Can Do to Fix Them (Video) By Damien McKenna. "Last month we talked about what the accessibility issues are in Drupal core...this month our speaker Damien McKenna will talk about the next steps in resolving these issues…" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqDFJedf1pI +04: EVALUATION & TESTING. Order Effects in Usability Questionnaires By Stephanie B. Linek. "…The presented empirical study investigated order effects for the arrangement of the usability evaluation of the components of a website…" http://uxpajournal.org/order-effects-usability-questionnaires/ Revisiting the Factor Structure of the System Usability Scale By James (Jim) R. Lewis and Jeff Sauro. "…Because a distinction based on item tone is of little practical or theoretical interest, we recommend that user experience practitioners and researchers treat the SUS as a unidimensional measure of perceived usability, and no longer routinely compute Usability and Learnability subscales…" http://uxpajournal.org/revisit-factor-structure-system-usability-scale/ Usability Testing of Spoken Conversational Systems By Susan L. Hura. "…The purpose of this editorial is to share practical experience, introduce concerns particular to speech, and point out potential issues…" http://uxpajournal.org/usability-spoken-systems/ When to Provide Assistance in a Usability Test By Jeff Sauro. "…Here are ten things to consider when deciding when an assist is warranted in a usability test…" https://measuringu.com/usability-assistance/ Vanity Metrics Need to Die By Kristina Bjoran. "…Let's all do ourselves a favor: fight the good fight against vanity. Fight for truth in data." http://www.uxbooth.com/articles/vanity-metrics-need-to-die/ Build-Low-Cost-User-Research-Lab By Bernard Tyers. "This is a short guide to our approach to build a low-cost user research studio…" https://ei8fdb.github.io/Build-Low-Cost-User-Research-Lab/ +05: EVENTS. Buffalo Accessibility Meetup September 20, 2017. Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. https://www.meetup.com/buffa11y/events/242406691 Accessibility Scotland September 22, 2017. Edinburgh, Scotland http://accessibility.scot/ Revised Section 508 Chapter 5 Software (including Mobile) September 26, 2017 Online. https://www.accessibilityonline.org/cioc-508/session/?id=110615 International Day of People with Disability December 3, 2017. Everywhere http://www.idpwd.com.au/ Digital Summit Dallas December 5-6, 2017. Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. http://dallas.digitalsummit.com/ +06: HTML. Mapping in HTML - a Proposal for a New Element By Terence Eden. "This is a sketch of a proposal for a new HTML element to simplify displaying maps on a website. I'd like your comments and criticisms before I submit it…" https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/08/mapping-in-html-a-proposal-for-a-new-element/ Firefox 57 Will be Less Chatty to Screen Readers in Some Situations By Marco Zehe. "Over the last few days, I landed two changes to Firefox which change how we expose implicit landmarks of some HTML5 elements. This is to make screen readers a bit less chatty in certain situations. For many years, Firefox has exposed certain new HTML5 elements like
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