+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
- Volume 17, Issue 45, May 2, 2019.
An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development.
++ISSUE 45 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: EVALUATION & TESTING.
03: EVENTS.
04: HTML.
05: JAVASCRIPT.
06: MISCELLANEOUS.
07: NAVIGATION.
08: USABILITY.
SECTION TWO:
09: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site?
[Contents ends.]
++ SECTION ONE: New references.
+01: ACCESSIBILITY.
Maps for All
By Minnesota IT Services.
"Maps are a great way of sharing complex information, but resources to make these maps accessible were not always easy to find. Until now."
https://mn.gov/mnit/media/blog/?id=38-382609
Audio Description Using the Web Speech API
By Terrill Thompson.
"…Able Player performs a quick check to see if the user's browser supports it. If it doesn't, it falls back to the old way of doing things using ARIA live regions. But if it does, the browser reads the description text in a pre-defined synthesized voice, keeping the screen reader free to do other things…"
http://terrillthompson.com/1173
Revisiting prefers-reduced-motion, The Reduced Motion Media Query
By Eric Bailey.
Eric revisits prefers-reduced-motion focusing less about the how and more about the why.
https://css-tricks.com/revisiting-prefers-reduced-motion-the-reduced-motion-media-query/
Updated: PDF Accessibility
By WebAIM.
"Our Acrobat PDF accessibility article has been updated and greatly expanded."
https://webaim.org/techniques/acrobat/
Six Ways to Make your Site More Accessible
By Hidde de Vries.
"A presentation at WordCamp Rotterdam in April 2019…"
https://talks.hiddedevries.nl/lMxtx5/six-ways-to-make-your-site-more-accessible
This Open Source Software Could Make Museum Websites More Accessible
By Claire Voon.
"Earlier this year, dozens of New York City art galleries were hit with lawsuits filed separately by two legally blind plaintiffs…"
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-open-source-software-museum-websites-accessible
The Role of Design in Accessibility
By Adrian Roselli.
Adrian's Slides from his a11yTO Meet-up presentation.
http://adrianroselli.com/2019/04/slides-the-role-of-design-in-accessibility-a11yto-meet-up.html
New Developments in Ongoing Website Accessibility Litigation
By Elizabeth J. Rho-Ng, Cathie L. Fields, Sharon J. Ormond.
"A federal district court in Massachusetts recently ruled against Harvard University in an ongoing lawsuit filed on behalf of disabled individuals challenging the accessibility of online video content on the university's websites…"
https://www.aalrr.com/EdLawConnectBlog/new-developments-in-ongoing-website-accessibility-litigation
+02: EVALUATION & TESTING.
Usability Testing with Minors: 16 Tips
By Alita Joyce.
To guarantee an effective study with users under 18-years old, recruit extra participants, design a child-friendly lab, prepare a plethora of age-appropriate tasks, and avoid being too authoritative."
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/usability-testing-minors/
Embedding Accessibility into the DevOps Process
By Dylan Barrell.
"…focus on continually shifting accessibility testing 'further left' earlier in the development cycle to enhance quality while maintaining velocity. The sooner you detect and fix accessibility issues, the less likely these are to become more deeply baked into the software, making them more difficult and time-consuming to undo…"
https://devops.com/embedding-accessibility-into-the-devops-process/
+03: EVENTS.
Minnesota Digital Accessibility Law Celebration
May 7, 2019.
Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MNIT/bulletins/2411727
Accessibility of Course Materials & Your University
May 9, 2019.
Online
http://aem.cast.org/about/events/2019/05/quality-indicators-for-higher-ed.html
Accessibility and Social Media
May 9, 2019.
Online
https://go.3playmedia.com/wbn-05-09-2019-social
Accessible Documents and You!
May 9, 2019.
Online
https://iod.unh.edu/event/accessible-documents-and-you
Web4All Hackathon 2019
May 15-16, 2019.
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfn4f-qdLHD4UQ0QeeJpHKul1KIcjGeamVyfSWSpBEqT8uR8g/viewform
Celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day @ Illinois
May 16, 2019.
Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A.
https://www.disability.illinois.edu/academic-support/accessible-it-group/gaad2019
Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2019
May 16, 2019.
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/a11ychi/events/261052295/
Best Practices for Accessible Social Media
May 21, 2019.
Online
http://www.cast.org/whats-new/events/2019/05/best-practices-social-media-accessibility.html
Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide
May 22-24, 2019.
Washington, D.C, U.S.A.
http://www.ppdd.org/conferences/ppdd2019/
Boston UX Conference
July 15-19, 2019.
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
https://www.nngroup.com/training/boston/
+04: HTML.
Details / Summary Are Not [insert control here]
By Adrian Roselli.
"…we need to be careful of christening this new-to-us interaction as the solution to all our coding struggles…"
http://adrianroselli.com/2019/04/details-summary-are-not-insert-control-here.html
Short Note on fieldset and legend Semantics
By Steve Faulkner.
"…Using a