+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 18, Issue 24, December 11, 2019. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 24 CONTENTS. SECTION ONE: New references. What's new at the Web Design Reference site? https://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: JAVASCRIPT. 07: MISCELLANEOUS. 08: NAVIGATION. 09: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS. 10: TYPOGRAPHY 11: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 12: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. Accessibility Tips for Web Developers By Addy Osmani. "It's awesome to build sites that are inclusive and accessible to everyone. There are at least six key areas of disability we can optimize for: visual, hearing, mobility, cognition, speech and neural. Many tools and resources can help here, even if you're totally new to web accessibility." https://dev.to/addyosmani/accessibility-tips-for-web-developers-4cn0 Able Player Examples By Terrill Thompson. "Able Player is a fully accessible cross-browser HTML5 media player designed from the ground up to meet the diverse needs and preferences of all users. Following are examples of Able Player in action. All demos use the '2020' skin unless otherwise indicated." https://ableplayer.github.io/ableplayer/demos/ 11 Web Accessibility Myths Debunked By HeX Productions. "We've heard it all before. Whether you're a sceptic, a newbie, or an advocate - you've probably got some preconceptions about accessibility. Digital creative agency (and accessibility champions) HeX Productions explain 11 common web accessibility myths." https://bighack.org/11-web-accessibility-myths-debunked/ POUR the Foundation First By Homer Gaines. "…These four sections are known as POUR, which is short for Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust. Understanding the guidelines in these sections will help teams identify the areas of their products that need to conform…" https://www.24a11y.com/2019/pour-the-foundation-first/ Understanding SC 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value By Raghavendra Satish Peri. "The intent of this success criterion is to make sure that assistive technologies receive the necessary semantic information from all the interactive elements present on the page…" https://www.digitala11y.com/understanding-sc-4-1-2-name-role-value/ Canvas Accessibility - Instructional Guide By Shawn Jordison. "This instructional guide features specific detailed directions on how to apply accessibility to a canvas page…" http://shawnjordison.com/canvas-accessibility-instructional-guide/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Inspecting the CSS Cascade using Firefox DevTools (Video) By Miriam Suzanne. "…Miriam Suzanne will show you how the cascade is represented in the inspector, and how to get the most out of these tools - from debugging code to writing and manipulating the cascade directly in the browser…" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp9ZfSvpf7A Z's Still Not Dead Baby, Z's Still Not Dead By Andy Clarke. "Andy Clarke digs deep into snow to find ways flat design can be brought back to life in CSS with the use of techniques to create a sense of depth. Like spring after an everlasting winter, perhaps it's time to let a different style of design flourish. What a relief." https://24ways.org/2019/zs-still-not-dead-baby-zs-still-not-dead/ +03: EVALUATION & TESTING. 1st Pillar of Usability Testing: Typical Users (Video 1 of 3) By Katie Sherwin. "The foundation of valid usability studies is to recruit representative test participants: you should test with users from your target audience." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/usability-testing-typical-users/ Accessibility Testing by People with Disabilities By Becky Gibson. "…This article will review the challenges and possible solutions…" https://www.24a11y.com/2019/accessibility-testing-by-people-with-disabilities/ The Perils of Client Recruiting Practical Usability By Jim Ross. "Sometimes your clients can be the best source of user-research participants…" https://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2019/12/the-perils-of-client-recruiting.php +04: EVENTS. The Web We Want and Holiday Social December 16, 2019. Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. https://www.meetup.com/a11ysea/events/266906380/ Giving Back: Live Mini A11y Testing Sessions to Benefit Local Orgs! (Part 1) December 17, 2019. Boulder Colorado, U.S.A. https://www.meetup.com/a11yBoulder/events/266950476/ Interaction 20 Conference February 5-7, 2020. Milan, Italy https://interaction20.ixda.org/ DevNexus Professional Developers Conference February 19-21, 2020. Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. https://devnexus.com/ Audio Description Institute February 22-24, 2020. Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.A. https://www.acb.org/2020-audio-description-institute University of Guelph Accessibility Conference May 26-27, 2020. Guelph, Ontario, Canada https://opened.uoguelph.ca/accessibility-conference +05: HTML. The Intersection of Markup, Content and Context in Accessibility By David A. Kennedy. "…I'll discuss markup, content and assistive technology users, how they intersect to create accessibility needs. Once you learn to spot those intersections, you can pick one, go deeper and get a sense of why it's that way. Then you're on your way to making better decisions around accessibility…" https://www.24a11y.com/2019/the-intersection-of-markup-content-and-context-in-accessibility/ Quoting in HTML: Quotations, Citations, and Blockquotes By John Rhea. "It's all too common to see the incorrect HTML used for quotes in markup. In this article, let's dig into all this, looking at different situations and different HTML tags to handle those situations…" https://css-tricks.com/quoting-in-html-quotations-citations-and-blockquotes/ +06: JAVASCRIPT. It All Starts with a Humble