+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 18, Issue 05, July 30, 2019. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 05 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: TOOLS. 10: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 11: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. ACT Rules Format 1.0 is a W3C Proposed Recommendation By Shadi Abou-Zahra. "…The Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.0 and resulting ACT Rules are intended to help reduce conflicting interpretations in accessibility testing. Writing rules according to a common standard facilitates exchange and harmonization among developers. This allows for more transparency and reliability of accessibility testing, and helps increase adoption and implementation…" https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2019JulSep/0055.html Truths About Digital Accessibility By Eric Bailey. "Creating, maintaining, or evaluating accessible technology? Here are some things to keep in mind…" https://ericwbailey.design/writing/truths-about-digital-accessibility.html Create Custom Keyboard Accessible Radio Buttons By Lindsey Kopacz. "Hey friends! Today we'll be creating custom keyboard accessible radio buttons…" https://www.a11ywithlindsey.com/blog/create-custom-keyboard-accessible-radio-buttons/ WCAG 2.0 Checklist for UX Designers (PDF) By Doug Collins. "Section 1: Make Site Perceivable…" http://www.denveruxer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/WCAG-2.0-Guidelines-for-UX-Designers-3.pdf Primer: Designer's A11y Responsibility By Hala Anwar. "A presentation at #a11yTO Conference in October 2018…accessibility is a team effort that starts with the researchers and the designers.…" https://noti.st/hala-anwar/dz10Bj/slides We've Made the GOV.UK Design System More Accessible By Amy Hupe and Dave House. "We've made some changes to the GOV.UK Design System to make it more accessible…We've changed the focus style for all components to make sure they meet the new WCAG 2.1 level AA requirements for contrast and non-text contrast…" https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2019/07/29/weve-made-the-gov-uk-design-system-more-accessible/ Web Accessibility for Seizures and Physical Reactions By austin-2019, et al. "Seizures caused by light are known as photosensitive epilepsy. Content that flickers, flashes, or blinks can trigger photosensitive epilepsy. Web technologies that use video, gifs, animated SVGs, Canvas, and CSS or JavaScript animations are all capable of content that can induce seizures or other incapacitating physical reactions…" https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/Seizure_disorders Understanding Assistive Technology: How Does a Deaf or Hard of Hearing Person Use Technology? By Level Access. "…"Today, we are focusing on people who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing…" https://levelaccess.com/understanding-assistive-technology-how-does-a-deaf-or-hard-of-hearing-person-use-technology/ Screen Reader User Survey #8 By WebAIM. "The following survey is a follow-up to previous WebAIM Screen Reader User Surveys conducted December 2008, September 2009, December 2010, May 2012, January 2014, July 2015, and October 2017…" https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey8/ Roy Payan, Portia Mason, NFB, and NFB California, Inc., Plaintiffs, versus Los Angeles Community College District, Defendant By United States District Court, C.D. California. "Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law… Based on the Court's findings of fact and conclusions of law set forth above, the Court holds that LACCD violated Title II and Section 504 by discriminating against Plaintiffs through (1) the inaccessible handbook issued in Professor Daniel's course, (2) the inaccessible LACC website, and (3) the inaccessible LACC library databases…" https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20190522816 A Blind Man Couldn't Order Pizza from Domino's. The Company Wants the Supreme Court to Say Websites Don't have to be Accessible By Tucker Higgins. "…The Supreme Court will decide whether to hear the case, Domino's Pizza v. Guillermo Robles, when the justices return from their summer recess in the fall." https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/07/25/dominos-asks-supreme-court-to-say-disability-protections-dont-apply-online.html Domino's Petition to the US Supreme Court (PDF) https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-1539/102950/20190613153319483_DominosPetition.pdf Ethics in the Digital Accessibility Legal Space: ADA Enforcement Cases or Something Else? By Lainey Feingold. "…This post shares my thoughts about how to distinguish ethical disability rights cases from litigation I consider unethical…" https://www.lflegal.com/2019/07/ethics-2/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Making Things Better: Redefining the Technical Possibilities of CSS By Rachel Andrew. Rachel's July 29 Event Apart slides, code and resources. https://noti.st/rachelandrew/ClxWtN/making-things-better-redefining-the-technical-possibilities-of-css Don't Comma-Separate :focus-within If You Need Deep Browser Support By Chris Coyier. "I really like :focus-within. It's a super useful selector that allows you to essentially select a parent element when any of its children are in focus…" https://css-tricks.com/dont-comma-separate-focus-within-if-you-need-deep-browser-support/ Flexbox and Padding By Chen Hui Jing. "…this is a really short one, which was borne out of a discussion with my mate, Wei, about use of padding in a flex formatting context…" https://www.chenhuijing.com/blog/flexbox-and-padding/ Gradient Magic By Jordan Marshall. "A Gallery of fantastic and unique CSS gradients…" https://www.gradientmagic.com/ +03: EVALUATION & TESTING. Formative vs. Summative Evaluations By Alita Joyce. "Formative evaluations are used in an iterative process to make improvements before production. Summative evaluations are used to evaluate a shipped product in comparison to a benchmark." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/formative-vs-summative-evaluations/ Practical Guidance on Measuring Design with Expert Researcher, Leanne Waldal (Video) By Leanne Waldal. "…In this video, independent design director Leanne Waldal explains how frameworks like Google HEART, UMUX-LITE, and SUS can help benchmark the user experience of a product. She also explains why it is important to be consistent over time with the frameworks that are used." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woL9BpHuseY Where Do UX Research Methods Come From? By Jeff Sauro. "…When you understand the fields where the methods originally came from and how they've been adapted, you can effectively use them in UX research. Here are twelve UX research methods and some of their interesting roots…" https://measuringu.com/ux-methods-history/ +04: EVENTS. Intro to Accessibility July 26-August 24, 2019. Online. "In honor of the 29th anniversary of the #ADA, Microassist will be offering free access to our Intro to Accessibility course for the next 29 days." https://twitter.com/A11yNews/status/1154798802764795905 How to Read a VPAT August 5, 2019. Online https://zoom.us/meeting/register/8efedc6d9f06f54b7c24e00bf0acd2b8 Mobile Accessibility Testing Workshop August 9, 2019. Stanford, California, U.S.A. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mobile-accessibility-testing-workshop-tickets-65872334927 Practicing Agile Accessibility in Large Organizations August 13, 2019. Online https://webinars.devops.com/practicing-agile-accessibility-in-large-organizations Atlanta UX Conference November 4-8, 2019. Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. https://www.nngroup.com/training/atlanta/ World Usability Day - Designing for the Future We Want November 14, 2019. Minneapolis, Minnesota U.S.A. https://uxpamn.org/event-3492831 +05: HTML. Datalist is for Suggesting Values Without Enforcing Values By Chris Coyier. "…Not a