+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 18, Issue 26, December 23, 2019. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 26 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: BOOKS. 03: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. 04: COLOR. 05: DRUPAL. 06: EVALUATION & TESTING. 07: EVENTS. 08: HTML. 09: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. 10: JAVASCRIPT. 11: MISCELLANEOUS. 12: TYPOGRAPHY. 13: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 14: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. Accessible Products: Beyond Code By Shell Little. "First I'd like to dispel this common belief: if your website's code is compliant, you have an accessible site…" https://www.24a11y.com/2019/accessible-products-beyond-code/ WCAG 2.1 Meets STEM: Application, Interpretation, and Opportunities for FurtherStandard Development By Jason White. "This paper offers an overview of changes introduced in the recent Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 standard that have implications for the accessibility of content in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines…" https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1225251 WCAG 2.1 and the Current State of Web Accessibility in Libraries By Carli Spina. "…This article examines the new success criteria in the recently released WCAG 2.1, considers the opportunity they present for libraries to improve the user experience for users with a broad range of disabilities, and proposes steps to improve compliance with WCAG and online accessibility more broadly…" https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/weave/12535642.0002.202/--wcag-21-and-the-current-state-of-web-accessibility?rgn=main;view=fulltext Creating Accessible Documents with Adobe InDesign (PDF) By InDesign Accessibility Community of Practice - State of Minnesota. "This guide covers the basics for making documents accessible when using InDesign, an industry-standard page layout software offered as part of Adobe's Creative Cloud software suite…" https://mn.gov/mnit/assets/indesign-accessible-documents_tcm38-413703.pdf How Accessible is the HTML Video Player? By Scott Vinkle. "…relying on native video players should be used with caution. This is my opinion stemming from experience, but I found most to have poor keyboard and screen reader support, which may lead to frustrated users…" https://scottvinkle.me/blogs/blog/how-accessible-is-the-html-video-player The Many Laws of Accessibility, Part 1: Conventions & Treaties By Amy Carney. "Say the word 'legislation' and my eyes immediately start to glaze over. When laws, preambles, and articles are mentioned, my mind starts to panic…" https://100daysofa11y.com/2019/12/17/ The Many Laws of Accessibility, Part 2: Laws & Regulations By Amy Carney. "In this post, I'll continue my learning about accessibility laws after covering conventions and treaties in Part 1: Conventions & Treaties…" https://100daysofa11y.com/2019/12/18/the-many-laws-of-accessibility-part-2-laws-regulations/ UsableNet Releases its 2019 ADA Web Accessibility and App Lawsuit Report By UsableNet. "…To create this report, the UsableNet research team monitors and documents all federally filed ADA based website and app lawsuits. The report itself depicts trends found in Website and App lawsuit cases. Data and images from this report can be shared when citing UsableNet as a source and linking to our Website…" https://blog.usablenet.com/usablenet-releases-its-2019-ada-web-accessibility-and-app-lawsuit-report +02: BOOKS. Gilbert, Regine M. "Inclusive Design for a Digital World: Designing with Accessibility in Mind (Design Thinking)" Apress, 2020. +03: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. CSS Guidelines By Harry Roberts. "High-level advice and guidelines for writing sane, manageable, scalable CSS…" https://cssguidelin.es/ Flexible Captioned Slanted Images By Eric A. Meyer. "…our designer thought it would be interesting to have slanted images of speakers at the tops of pages. The end result looks like this. The interesting part is the images. I wanted to set up a structure like the following, so that it will be easy to change speakers from time to time while preserving accessible content structures…" https://24ways.org/2019/flexible-captioned-slanted-images/ +04: COLOR. Studies of WCAG Contrast Maths By Andrew Somers. "This page is a live experiment into the issues relating to contrast, perception, legibility, and accessibility in web design." http://myndex.com/WEB/W3Contrastissue Color Theory and Contrast Ratios By Christopher Schmitt. "…Color, at its core, is a relative and personal experience…" https://www.24a11y.com/2019/color-theory-and-contrast-ratios/ How to Check your Brand's Colour Contrast for Accessibility By Matthew Deeprose. "…In this post Matthew Deeprose, Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) Manager at the University of Southampton shares a method he is using both to ensure colour choices are accessible and inline with an institutional brand…" https://abilitynet.org.uk/news-blogs/guest-blog-how-check-your-brands-colour-contrast-accessibility +05: DRUPAL. Keyboard Accessibility in Drupal 8.8's Media Library (Video) By WishDesk. "…The newly released Drupal 8.8 is great in this arena - it introduces keyboard accessibility for quickly adding media from Media Library to CKEditor's content with no mouse…" https://wishdesk.com/blog/keyboard-accessibility-in-drupal-8-8-media-library +06: EVALUATION & TESTING. 10 Things to Know About the Post Study System Usability Questionnaire By Jeff Sauro. "…Here are 10 things to know about this influential measure…" https://measuringu.com/pssuq/ Remote Ideation - Synchronous or Asynchronous? (Video) By Kate Moran and Aurora Harley. "Ideation in the UX design process can be conducted remotely: without having team members in the same room. This can be done synchronously (everybody participates at the same time) or asynchronously (people contribute at different times)." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/remote-ideation-synchronous-or-asynchronous/ iOS Accessibility Testing for Devs Using Voice Control (Video) By Chris McMeeking. "Learn how to use the Voice Control feature in iOS 13 to quickly and easily find accessibility bugs." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72YySyRkRh4 +07: EVENTS. Accessibility Ask Me Anything: Nic Steenhout January 15, 2020. Online https://blog.tenon.io/a11yama-nic-steenhout How Non-Profit Organizations Can Create Accessible Video January 16, 2020. Online https://go.3playmedia.com/wbn-societies iOS and Android Native App Accessibility January 23, 2020. Online https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ios-and-android-native-app-accessibility-virtual-workshop-powered-by-knowbility-tickets-80748678471 Section 508 Questions and Answers with the Access Board and GSA January 28, 2020. Online https://adata.org/event/section-508-questions-and-answers-access-board-and-gsa World IA Day February 22, 2020. Everywhere https://www.worldiaday.org/ ConFoo February 26-28, 2020 Montreal, Quebec, Canada https://confoo.ca/en/yul2020 Web4All 2020 April 20-21, 2020. Taipei, Taiwan http://www.w4a.info/2020/ +08: HTML. Your Poison Part 2: Test All the Things By Sarah Higley. "In part 1 of this deep dive, we took a broad look at both how the native