+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 17, Issue 33, February 7, 2019. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 33 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: HTML. 06: MISCELLANEOUS. 07: NAVIGATION. 08: TOOLS. 09: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 10: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. How My Brain-Damaged Mother Changed How I Look at Interface Design (Hat tip to Jim Allan) By John Brownlee. "Her technical expertise launched a billion phone calls, yet now she is routinely thwarted by what many hail as one of the most accessible UIs on the planet…" https://magenta.as/how-my-brain-damaged-mother-changed-how-i-look-at-interface-design-9d2a06f042a1 Takeaways from Digital Accessibility - Guide to Trustworthy Free Online Resources By Deborah Edwards-Onoro. "At yesterday's free Digital Accessibility Support - Guide to Trustworthy Free Online Resources webinar hosted by The Paciello Group, Shawn Henry from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the World Wide Web Consortium shared a wealth of information about the digital accessibility resources available on the WAI website…" https://www.lireo.com/takeaways-digital-accessibility-guide-trustworthy-free-online-resources/ Complete Guide to Accessible Video and Audio for the Web By Stefany Newman. "…Captions, transcript, audio description, non-seizure/migraine inducing content, keyboard functions, accessible player - it all ties together to create an incredible experience for abled and disabled users. But all the inventions in the world are useless without the ultimate ingredient - desire. A desire to share your content and to make it in a way as many people as possible will be able to enjoy. Not only will you reap enormous benefits, but you will get the best gain ever - making the world a better place…" https://codepen.io/Stefany93/post/complete-guide-to-accessible-video-and-audio-for-the-web Make Your Hashtags Accessible By Bureau of Internet Accessibility. "…To make your hashtags more accessible, capitalize the first letter of each word (sometimes called "camel case" or "camel backing")…" https://www.boia.org/blog/make-your-hashtags-accessible AcceDe Web Guidelines (Hat tip to Nicolas Hoffmann) By Atalan. "The AcceDe Web guides are written from the perspective of each of the key project stakeholders and cover the full Web project cycle…" https://www.accede-web.com/en/guidelines/ 7 Things You Should Know About Accessibility Policy By EDUCAUSE. "Accessibility policies frame standards and expectations for how a college or university's programs, services, and facilities serve the needs of people with disabilities…" https://library.educause.edu/resources/2019/2/7-things-you-should-know-about-accessibility-policy Due Process and Primary Jurisdiction Defenses to Website Accessibility Claims Fall Like Dominoes in the Ninth Circuit By Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. "…Consistent with the DOJ's position in its September 25, 2018 letter regarding website accessibility, the court noted that public accommodations are provided 'maximum flexibility in meeting the [ADA's] requirements.' Nonetheless, conformance to WCAG 2.0 or 2.1 likely remains the only predictably safe standard to ensure that websites comply with the ADA." https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/due-process-and-primary-jurisdiction-63209/ Websites Need to be More Accessible for Disabled People By S.E. Smith. "A recent wave of lawsuits - some of them controversial - is bringing the issue to the fore…" https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/2/5/18210912/websites-ada-compliance-lawsuits +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. A Guide To CSS Support In Browsers By Rachel Andrew. "It can be frustrating when you want to use a feature and discover that it is not supported or behaves differently across browsers. In this article, Rachel Andrew details the different types of browser support issues, and shows how CSS is evolving to make it easier to deal with them. …" https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/02/css-browser-support/ +03: EVALUATION & TESTING. Research Questions Are Not Interview Questions By Erika Hall. "The most significant source of confusion in design research is the difference between research questions and interview questions…" https://medium.com/mule-design/research-questions-are-not-interview-questions-7f90602eb533 What Is the CE11 (And Is It Better than the NPS)? By Jeff Sauro. "For measuring the user experience, I recommend using a mix of task-based and study-level measures that capture both attitudes (e.g. SUS, SUPR-Q, SEQ, and NPS) and actions (e.g. completion rates and times)…" https://measuringu.com/ce11-nps/ How to Effectively Address the Usability Debt Within Your Product By Catriona Shedd. "Many companies fall into a dreaded pattern of continuing to ship new features without going back and iterating upon things that were previously shipped based on research and insights…" https://medium.com/iq-design/how-to-effectively-address-the-usability-debt-within-your-product-6b8693e6e853 +04: EVENTS. ARIA: Apply Sparingly March 25, 2019. Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. https://www.meetup.com/Accessibility-Twin-Cities/events/257427546/ #PerfMatters Conference April 2-3, 2019. Redwood City, Califorina, U.S.A. https://perfmattersconf.com/ University of Illinois WebCon April 3-5, 2019. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A. http://webcon.illinois.edu/ AIGA Design Conference April 4-6, 2019. Pasadena, California, U.S.A. https://designconference.aiga.org/ DrupalCon Seattle April 8-12, 2019. Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. https://events.drupal.org/seattle2019 Funka Accessibility Days April 9-10, 2019. Stockholm, Sweden https://www.funka.com/en/we-offer/funka-accessibility-days/ ABLE Summit April 11-12, 2019. Beirut, Lebanon https://sites.aub.edu.lb/able/ +05: HTML. Revisiting the abbr Element By Ire Aderinokun. "…I've gotten some feedback on some accessibility-related issues to the implementation. Scott O'Hara in particular raised a lot of important concerns…" https://bitsofco.de/revisiting-the-abbr-element/ How Do You Figure? By Chris Coyier. "…The point is that you can't write it once because
and alt do different things." https://css-tricks.com/how-do-you-figure/ Reconsidering Pre and Reflow By Wayne Dick. "I think the time of Pre has passed for everything except 'typewriter art'. We entered the computer era with all literature text files, end of line, spaces and return symbols. That is 'preformatted text'…" https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2019JanMar/0032.html +06: MISCELLANEOUS. Paying Tribute to the Web with View Source By David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH). "…The web is just a marvel of a platform. So unique. So empowering. It's easy to just fall into the trap of 'what can the web do for me, for my business, for my customers'. Some times it's worth taking a step back and ask yourself: What can I do for the web? One answer: Protect and promote View Source." https://m.signalvnoise.com/paying-tribute-to-the-web-with-view-source/ +07: NAVIGATION. Léonie Watson on Why Semantic HTML Document Landmarks Assist Her Using a Screenreader (Video) By Léonie Watson. An excerpt from February 5 Smashing Webinar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUCYPM6up9M +08: TOOLS. WCAG 2.1 Color Contrast Analyzer By Rakesh Paladugula. "…The new CCA tool is developed by The Paciello Group. Additional information of the tool can be found at the Color contrast analyzer page. The code and other information including Mac and Windows versions are at download CCA page…" https://www.maxability.co.in/2019/02/wcag-2-1-color-contrast-analyzer/ +09: USABILITY. The Immutable Rules of UX (Video) By Jakob Nielsen. "Jakob Nielsen's keynote at the Las Vegas UX Conference discussed the foundational principles of user experience that are stable decade after decade." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/rules-ux/ How to Report Errors in Forms: 10 Design Guidelines By Rachel Krause. "Help users recover from errors by clearly identifying the problems and allowing users to access and correct erroneous fields easily." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/errors-forms-design-guidelines/ Status Trackers and Progress Updates: 16 Design Guidelines By Maria Rosala. "Status trackers are pull; progress updates are push. Both are used to track the delivery of a product or service. When they work together effectively, users are informed and in control." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/status-tracker-progress-update/ Search UX: 6 Essential Elements for 'No Results' Pages By Edward Scott. "During our large-scale Search usability testing, many users at some point encountered a 'No Results' page as they searched for products…" https://baymard.com/blog/no-results-page Use and Convenience Replace Trust and Security By Gerry McGovern. "…Those that make it simple and easy are ruling the world. Those that understand what people do, rather than what people say, are ruling the world. For good or ill, you can't craft an effective customer experience on a website or app, 'if you don't first and foremost truly understand your customers. Facebook knows this. Google knows this. But nine out of ten organizations that I deal with don't. And then we wonder why Facebook and Google have become so dominant?" http://gerrymcgovern.com/use-and-convenience-replace-trust-and-security/ [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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