+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 17, Issue 39, March 21, 2019. 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: EVALUATION & TESTING. 04: EVENTS. 05: HTML. 06: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. 07: JAVASCRIPT. 08: MISCELLANEOUS. 09: NAVIGATION. 10: TOOLS. 11: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 12: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. Your Accessibility Toolbar Doesn't Help By Joe Dolson. "Mr. Borghi is not certain whether adding this unidentified WordPress plug-in made him fully compliant - but I can readily suggest an answer: No, it didn't…" https://www.joedolson.com/2019/03/your-accessibility-toolbar-doesnt-help/ WCAG 2.1 Accessibility Checklist By Access W3. "Dynamic Checklist with Success Criteria copied from WCAG 2.1 Standard…" http://accessw3.com/wcag21-accessibility-checklist.html Collecting Dates in an Accessible Way By Graham Armfield. "…this post looks at the pros and cons of a variety of methods for collecting date, and our views on the best practices…" https://www.hassellinclusion.com/blog/collecting-dates-accessible/ Accessibility, a Powerful Design Tool By Hubert Florin. "…Accessibility is not a constraint: It is a design philosophy that encourages you to make better choices for your users, and helps you focus on what really matters. Simplicity will always be the most difficult target to reach in a design, and accessibility can be one of the best tools to get you there…" https://slack.design/accessibility-a-powerful-design-tool-22f5e6d46278 Diversity and Design By Dana Morgan. "How inclusive design and accessibility can make a difference with everyday products…" https://medium.com/@morgan.dana/diversity-and-design-4a768ac2d162 Summary of CSUN ATC 2019 By Dennis Lembrée. "…few announcements made, photos, and some fun tweets! Lastly, links to past CSUN events are listed…" http://www.webaxe.org/summary-of-csun-atc-2019/ Great Big List - CSUN 2019 Presentation Links By Dennis Lembrée and Christopher Phillips. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CupKIhw9CZXbbOw48Upw_V4F5soEsLvblnbwZXqAvX4/ Top 36 Web Accessibility Resources for Digital Marketing Companies By Kim Krause Berg. "…The purpose of this article is to provide you with: The best tools for accessibility testing. Recommendations for trusted accessibility testing companies. A list of reputable people and resources in the accessibility industry…" https://www.searchenginejournal.com/web-accessibility-resources-digital-marketing-companies/297271/ Q&A: The Forest and the Trees: Scaling for Enterprise-Level Digital Accessibility By Samantha Sauld. "…Kathryn Weber-Hottleman, who serves as UCONN's IT Accessibility Coordinator, discusses how institutional accessibility impacts the procurement process and pre-existing standalone digital products. Below is the Q&A portion of the webinar…" https://www.3playmedia.com/2019/03/19/qa-digital-accessibility/ The Web We Broke By Ethan Marcotte. "I read something last Monday, and I can't stop thinking about it…" https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-web-we-broke/ Perpetuating Harm By Winston Hearn. "I've been thinking about the people that use the websites I build. I've been thinking about them, because I've been learning how much who they are differs from who I imagine them to be…" https://www.winstonhearn.com/wrote/2019/perpetuating-harm/ Holy Cross Settles Lawsuit Over Website Accessibility for Blind Users By Scott O'Connell. "The College of the Holy Cross has reached a settlement with a New York man who sued the college, saying its website was not accessible to visually impaired users like himself, court records show…" https://www.telegram.com/news/20190312/holy-cross-settles-lawsuit-over-website-accessibility-for-blind-users +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. How to Keep Your CSS Grid Layouts Accessible By Anna Monus. "…CSS Grid can also lead to accessibility issues, mainly for screen reader and keyboard-only users. This guide will help you avoid those issues…" https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/a-guide-to-css-grid-and-accessibility--cms-32857 Stacked 'Borders' By Eric A. Meyer. "…It turns out there are a number of tricks to create the effect of stacking one border atop another by combining a border with some other CSS effects, or even without actually requiring the use of any borders at all. Let's explore, shall we…" https://css-tricks.com/stacked-borders/ Why Can't I Set the Font Size of a Visited Link? By James H. Fisher. "…This security hole has been plugged by not allowing a:visited to set the font-size…" https://jameshfisher.com/2019/03/08/why-cant-i-set-the-font-size-of-a-visited-link/ +03: EVALUATION & TESTING. Perform an Accessibility Review on Your Website By Indiana University. "These documents are intended for web developers, and provide a holistic process for performing an initial pass of evaluating your website for accessibility…" https://kb.iu.edu/d/atmv Keep Your Opinions Out of an Expert Design Review (Video) By Aurora Harley. "Critiquing a design is not the same as criticizing a design. Keep opinions out of design reviews to remain objective and increase the value of the design assessment." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/opinions-expert-design-review/ Do Survey Grids Affect Responses? By Jeff Sauro. "…While using a grid allows for a more compact presentation, does combining the items into a grid of rating scales versus asking them in isolation affect responses…" https://measuringu.com/grids-responses/ +04: EVENTS. User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) Conference June 25-27, 2019. Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.A. http://uxpa2019.org/ Symposium on Eye Tracking Research June 25-28, 2019. Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. https://etra.acm.org/2019/ Patterns Day June 28, 2019. Brighton, England, United Kingdom https://patternsday.com/ AHEAD 2019, Equity & Excellence: Access in Higher Education July 9-13, 2019. Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. https://www.ahead.org/events-programming/conferences/2019-equity-and-excellence International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP) July 11-13, 2019. Linz, Austria https://www.icchp.org/ Design & Content Conference July 17-19, 2019. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada https://content.design/ HCI International July 26-31, 2019. Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. http://2019.hci.international/ +05: HTML. About the HTML Epidemic, WebAIM 'Millions' Report, and Teach Access By Dennis Lembree. "It's been about a dozen years since I first realized that there is a world-wide HTML epidemic…" http://www.webaxe.org/html-epidemic-webaim-millions-report-teach-access/ +06: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. Why Website Information Architecture is the Ultimate Digital Team Sport By Ian Roddis. "…The question I asked at work (in a room of 20 people) was 'who owns IA?'. As I'll say at the end, this was the wrong question, but it stimulated a lot of views and caused a lot of reflection on my part…" https://medium.com/@ianroddis/why-website-information-architecture-is-the-ultimate-digital-team-sport-40370974d888 +07: JAVASCRIPT. The OpenJS Foundation Officially Formed for the JavaScript Community By Christina Cardoza. "The Linux Foundation today announced the formation of a new JavaScript community…" https://sdtimes.com/webdev/the-openjs-foundation-officially-formed-for-the-javascript-community/ The 'Developer Experience' Bait-and-Switch By Alex Russell. "we cannot continue to use as much JavaScript as is now 'normal' and expect the web to flourish…" https://infrequently.org/2018/09/the-developer-experience-bait-and-switch/ +08: MISCELLANEOUS. Canary in a Coal Mine: How Tech Provides Platforms for Hate By Tatiana Mac. "Like a mine can fill up with toxic gasses, technology can become a toxic platform for hate. As the people building the web, we have an ethical responsibility for how these products are used-whether we intended it or not. ALA's own Tatiana Mac lays this out using her own experience as a woman of color in tech." https://alistapart.com/article/canary-in-a-coal-mine-how-tech-provides-platforms-for-hate Accessibility within AR/VR: Jonathan Avila on the AT Banter Podcast By Jonathan Avila. "I recently had the pleasure of being a guest on AT Banter: An Assistive Technology Podcastf…" https://accessibility.dev/accessibility-within-ar-vr-jonathan-avila-on-the-at-banter-podcast/ Q&A With Léonie Watson, Accessibility Engineer and Director, TetraLogical By Equal Entry. "Léonie Watson is Director of TetraLogical, an inclusive design company focused on emerging and existing technologies, customer experience, and research and development, combined with a mix of traditional accessibility consultancy…" https://equalentry.com/qa-with-leonie-watson-accessibility-engineer-and-director-tetralogical/ I Used The Web For A Day On Internet Explorer 8 By Chris Ashton. "IE8 was released a decade ago today. Chris Ashton tries it out against the modern web, and considers how we can build our sites to last…" https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/03/web-on-internet-explorer-ie8/ +09: NAVIGATION. Contextual Menus: Delivering Relevant Tools for Tasks By Anna Kaley. "Contextual menus are displayed on demand and contain a small set of relevant actions, related to a control, a piece of content, a view in an app, or an area of the UI. When designed right, they deliver relevant tools for completing tasks without adding clutter to the interface." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/contextual-menus +10: TOOLS. CC Converter Tool: Convert Captions or Subtitle Files to Different Formats Online By 3PlayMedia. "The caption format converter lets you convert from SRT (SubRip subtitle) or from SBV to Flash DFXP, SMI or SAMI (Windows Media), SCC, CPT.XML (Flash Captionate XML), QT (QuickTime), STL (Spruce Subtitle File), and WebVTT (HTML5 media players). Note that for the SCC format, your input file must have 32 characters or less per line…" https://www.3playmedia.com/solutions/features/tools/captions-format-converter/ Microsoft Open Sources Accessibility Insights By Keith Ballinger. "Today we're announcing the open sourcing of Accessibility Insights for Windows and Accessibility Insights for Web, a set of two free tools to help developers easily find and fix common accessibility issues early in the dev cycle…" https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/03/12/microsoft-open-sources-accessibility-insights/ Accessibility Insights https://accessibilityinsights.io/ Axe Enters into New Forays By Sathish Kumar. "…In a recent joint press release at CSUN 2019, Deque Systems and Microsoft have announced their partnership to release Axe for Android and iOS…" https://www.digitala11y.com/axe-enters-into-new-forays/ +11: USABILITY. Teenager's UX: Designing for Teens By Alita Joyce and Jakob Nielsen. "Teens are (over)confident in their web abilities, but they perform worse than adults. Lower reading levels, impatience, and undeveloped research skills reduce teens' task success and require simple, relatable sites. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/usability-of-websites-for-teenagers/ [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +12: 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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