+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 18, Issue 14, October 2, 2019. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 14 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. Closing the Accessibility Gap By Glenda Sims and Jennie Delisi. "Find in-depth information on what digital accessibility is, why it is important, and how to apply it to your work." http://mn.gov/mnit/media/blog/index.jsp?id=38-403322 Road to Digital Accessibility By Minnesota IT Services. "It is clear that digital accessibility is a good thing. What is not clear is what to do when you hit a rough patch. Learn how to keep moving down the road to digital accessibility." https://mn.gov/mnit/media/blog/?id=38-403317 Screen Reader User Survey #8 Results By WebAIM. "In August - September 2019, WebAIM surveyed preferences of screen reader users. We received 1224 valid responses. This was a follow-up to 7 previous surveys that were conducted between January 2009 and October 2017…" https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey8/ Accessibility and Usability By Sheri Byrne-Haber. "Tightly related but very independent UI/UX/CX concepts. Definitely NOT interchangeable." https://medium.com/@sheribyrnehaber/accessibility-and-usability-591d4534e3bc How We Do Our Work Matters: Accessibility and Inclusive Design By Derek Featherstone. "Many people use accessibility and inclusive design as interchangeable terms. However, they are not the same thing. Accessibility is an outcome, and inclusive design is a process…" https://levelaccess.com/how-we-do-our-work-matters-accessibility-and-inclusive-design/ TIO Team Completes Assessment of AI-Driven Transcription By Carlos Solís, Texas State University. "Technology Innovation Office embarked on a study to determine the cost of implementing an AI-driven platform that would leverage speech to text services to produce captions…The team put a random set of previously captioned files through the AI-driven speech to text services provided by AWS, Google Cloud Platform, IBM/Watson and Microsoft Azure, deriving accuracy and cost measures from the output…" http://doit.wp.txstate.edu/2019/08/09/tio-team-completes-assessment-of-ai-driven-transcription/ Enhancing the Clickable Area Size By Ahmad Shadeed. "Have you ever tried to click or tap on an element (e.g.: button, link) and you realize that it doesn't respond until you click on a specific area of it…" https://ishadeed.com/article/clickable-area/ Accessibility Statement - Accessibility Information Page By Mike Gifford. "…Accessibility statements can be useful as a step help defend yourself against accessibility lawsuits (especially in the USA) but what is important is demonstrating that you are actively working to reduce barriers for your users…" https://github.com/accessibility/Accessibility-Statement The Huge Cost of Ignoring Accessibility When Designing Your Website By Greg Williams. "Digital equality - or access to the internet by making it accessible to everyone, including those with disabilities - is a serious moral and ethical issue. If left unchecked, digital inaccessibility can also be expensive and harmful to your brand…" https://thenextweb.com/podium/2019/09/27/the-huge-cost-of-ignoring-accessibility-when-designing-your-website/ Blind Woman Files Employment Discrimination Suit against Amazon.com By National Federation of the Blind. "Maryann Murad, a blind Howell resident, and the National Federation of the Blind, the nation's oldest and largest organization of blind Americans, have filed suit in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against Amazon.com for employment discrimination…" https://www.nfb.org/about-us/press-room/blind-woman-files-employment-discrimination-suit-against-amazoncom Amazon Complaint and Demand for Jury Trial (PDF) By U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Southern Division. https://browngold.com/old-news-pdfs/1%20Complaint%20%20Jury%20Demand%2009.03.19%20ACE.pdf Core Accessibility Concerns for Human Resources By Karl Groves. "On September 3, 2019, Maryann Murad and the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) filed a lawsuit against Amazon.com for Employment discrimination…" https://karlgroves.com/2019/09/25/core-accessibility-concerns-for-human-resources Domino's Wants to Slice Away at the Americans With Disabilities Act By Richard Supple. "The possibility that the Supreme Court might decide that Domino's doesn't have to make its website accessible fills me with dread-and not because I love its pizza…" https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/supreme-court-dominos-web-accessibility-visually-impaired.html Claims For Trespass: A New Trend In Website Accessibility Cases Filed In Florida? By Cole Schotz. "…the plaintiff suing for trespass, in a website accessibility case, essentially alleges that his computer or cellular phone contains personal information and browsing history and that each time the plaintiff would have visited a given defendant's website, that defendant would have employed software analytics present on the website, which the plaintiff navigated, software which the plaintiff will maintain he did not consent to or know of given his inability to fully view and access the website…" https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/claims-for-trespass-a-new-trend-in-33751/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Wanna fix about 35 to 40% of navigation accessibility issues for sighted keyboard users at once? By Denis Boudreau. "Go to your CSS and get rid of every occurrence of: {outline: none;} or {outline: 0;}. Stop taking the visible focus indicator away from end users. Yeah. It's really that simple." https://twitter.com/dboudreau/status/1179180738995982336 Mozilla Developer (Hat tip to Jen Simmons) By Mozilla. New YouTube channel about web design and development - tools and techniques, what's new, best practices…" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh5UlGiu9d6LegIeUCW4N1w +03: EVALUATION & TESTING. How To Get Development on Board With Accessibility Testing By Dylan Barrell. "…Once developers are motivated and understand the importance of accessibility and are equipped with the right tools, accessibility can transform from a burden into the only way to code." https://www.deque.com/blog/how-to-get-development-on-board-with-accessibility-testing/ How to Analyze Qualitative Data from UX Research: Thematic Analysis By Maria Rosala. "Identifying the main themes in data from user studies - such as: interviews, focus groups, diary studies, and field studies - is often done through thematic analysis." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/thematic-analysis/ Five Scales to Measure Customer Satisfaction By Jeff Sauro. "While customer satisfaction may be thought of as one concept, there's isn’t a single 'official' way to measure it…" https://measuringu.com/csat-scales/ 10 Things to Know About the Microsoft NSAT Score By Jeff Sauro. "…Here are ten things to know about this measurement of satisfaction…" https://measuringu.com/microsoft-nsat/ +04: EVENTS. Growing Accessibility and Inclusion Through Design Systems October 8, 2019. Online. https://levelaccess.zoom.us/webinar/register/7015680806762/WN_MG5l9d2HTkazcBS_ig0kfg 2019 Central Wisconsin IT Conference October 12, 2019 Stevens Point, Wisconsin, U.S.A. https://cwitc.org/ ffconf November 9, 2019. Brighton, England, United Kingdom https://2019.ffconf.org/ 2019 National Federation of the Blind of Texas Convention November 15-17, 2019. Austin, Texas, U.S.A. https://www.nfbtx.org/events.php?id=57 The Best Way to Create Audio Description November 21, 2019. Online https://go.3playmedia.com/wbn-11-21-2019-equalentry +05: HTML. WHATWG Accessibility GitHub Team By Anne van Kesteren. "…in order to make following accessibility-related matters easier across WHATWG standards there's a GitHub team named whatwg/a11y that's open to anyone to join and will be copied on relevant issues…" https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-apa/2019Sep/0061.html Short Note on When is a Table a Table? By Steve Faulkner. "Did u know that some browsers make 'an educated guess' to determine if a