+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 18, Issue 29, January 14, 2020. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 29 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: TYPOGRAPHY. 09: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 10: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. Checking 3rd Party Vendors' Product Accessibility By Nicolas Steenhout. "You are looking at acquiring a new system for your site. You know it needs to be accessible, but you don't know much about accessibility - and you aren't really a 'techie.' How can you improve your chances of procuring an accessible product from a 3rd party vendor?…" https://knowbility.org/blog/2020/third-party-vendor-accessibility-check/ Under Discussion: Web Accessibility By Anne-Laure Civeyrac. "We talked to company manager Aurélien Levy and front-end developer Hidde de Vries about accessibility, better known as a11y…" https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/btc-discussion-web-accessibility-a11y EdTech and HigherEd: Considerations for Digital Accessibility (Video) By Zarina Mustapha. Zarina's A11yNYC presentation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7c1JSpQxHs My Priority of Methods for Labeling a Control By Adrian Roselli. "Here is the priority I follow when assigning an accessible name to a control: 1.) Native HTML techniques, 2.) aria-labelledby pointing at existing visible text, 3.) Visibly-hidden content that is still in the page, 4.) aria-labe.…" https://adrianroselli.com/2020/01/my-priority-of-methods-for-labeling-a-control.html Accessibility Guidelines Summary By Jean-Francois Hector, TheAppBusiness. "…This summary is a simplification. If you're not sure how a guideline applies, check the official WCAG 2.1…" https://theappbusiness.github.io/accessibility-guidelines/ Courtney Reintroduces the Bill For Students With Disabilities By Eduvoice Correspondent. "The reintroduced bill is for the improvement of higher ed-tech access for students with disabilities…" https://eduvoice.in/courtney-reintroduces-bill-for-students-with-disabilities/ What's More Expensive than Getting Sued Over Inaccessibility? By Sheri Byrne-Haber. "Getting sued *twice* over the same (or different) inaccessibility…" https://medium.com/@sheribyrnehaber/whats-more-expensive-than-getting-sued-over-inaccessibility-8013f2113712 Websites: A Growing Compliance Concern - CCPA, HIPAA, Accessibility, State Laws… By Joseph J. Lazzarotti. "…Although not yet adopted by the Department of Justice, which enforces Title III of the ADA, guidelines established by the Website Accessibility Initiative appear to be the more likely place courts will look to access the accessibility of a website to which Title III applies…" https://www.natlawreview.com/article/websites-growing-compliance-concern-ccpa-hipaa-accessibility-state-laws Top 'Accessibility in the News' Topics of the Year (2019) By Jack McElaney. "As we ring in the new year, I would like to look back at 2019, focusing on accessibility news stories that received significant coverage…" https://www.microassist.com/digital-accessibility/top-accessibility-in-the-news-topics-of-the-year-2019/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. State Of CSS 2019 By Sacha Greif and Raphaël Benitte. "…join us to find out which CSS features are used the most, which tools are gaining adoption, and much more… https://2019.stateofcss.com/ +03: EVALUATION & TESTING. Would You Publish Without Spellchecking? By Mike Gifford. "I have been promoting use of automated accessibility tools for years. There has been a lot of controversy around them because publishers want them to be more than they are…" https://medium.com/@mgifford/would-you-publish-without-spellchecking-9166ce8b00de Should All Scale Points Be Labeled? By Jeff Sauro and Jim Lewis. "To have a reliable and valid response scale, people need to understand what they're responding to…" https://measuringu.com/scale-points-labeled/ Just-Right Personas: How to Choose the Scope of Your Personas By Kim Flaherty. "Narrow and broad scope personas achieve different goals. Success depends upon knowing the tradeoffs and structuring your personas' scope based on what you are trying to achieve." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/persona-scope/ +04: EVENTS. Roadmapping Your Accessibility Program January 15, 2020. Online https://zoom.us/webinar/register/7415760943265/WN_lVqyKbJ8QPGKW_uKNBzxSw Giving Back: Live Mini A11y Testing Sessions to Benefit Local Orgs January 21, 2020. Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. https://www.meetup.com/a11yBoulder/events/266955392/ UtahA11y Meetup #5 January 22, 2020. Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A. https://www.meetup.com/UtahA11y/events/267584785/ Motivating Faculty to Embrace Accessibility January 23, 2020. Online. https://go.3playmedia.com/wbn-01-23-20-motivating-faculty Making Social Media Accessible January 27, 2020. Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. https://www.meetup.com/Accessibility-Twin-Cities/events/267300309/ Accessibility in Design Systems February 12, 2020. Denver Colorado, U.S.A. https://www.meetup.com/a11yDenver/events/267089424/ Ignite UX March 24, 2020. Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. http://www.igniteuxmi.com/ The Art of the Alt Tag March 30, 2020. Minneapolis, Minnesota U.S.A. https://www.meetup.com/Accessibility-Twin-Cities/events/267302427/ +05: HTML. HTML is a Living Language (Podcast) By Chris Ferdinandi. "In today's episode, I talk about how HTML is a living language…" https://vanillajspodcast.com/html-is-a-living-language/ +06: JAVASCRIPT. Debunking the Myth: Accessibility and React By Mark Steadman. "…Here are some tips and tricks that can help you achieve the most accessible React application possible…" https://www.deque.com/blog/debunking-the-myth-accessibility-and-react/ Putting Devs Before Users: How Frameworks Destroyed Web Performance By cheatmaster30. "…So creatives, stop being so focused on your CV or personal convenience. Stop putting your own interests above those of your users, and wasting hundreds of kilobytes on stuff no one cares about. You are likely not Facebook or Google, and you shouldn't be designing or building things as if you are…" https://uxdesign.cc/putting-devs-before-users-how-frameworks-destroyed-web-performance-6b2c2a506aab OK ARIA! Role=feed is Here and It's Not Ready for Prime Time By Raghavendra Satish Peri. "It was a day of nightmares; it was a day of darkness in my digital world. I felt this as my fingers and the tab key of my keyboard were in a war with the ever-scrolling content in a shopping site…" https://www.digitala11y.com/ok-aria-rolefeed-is-here-its-not-ready-for-prime-time/ Multi-Thumb Sliders: Particular Two-Thumb Case By Ana Tudor. "…In this two-part article, we'll go through the how, step-by-step, first building an example with two thumbs, then identify the issues with it. We'll solve those issues, first for the two-thumb case then, in part two, come up with a better solution for the multi-thumb case…" https://css-tricks.com/multi-thumb-sliders-particular-two-thumb-case/ +07: MISCELLANEOUS. Accessibility and IoT / Smart and Connected Communities By John Rochford. "The Internet of things (IoT) has unlimited potential to empower the lives of everyone. IoT devices increasingly appear in homes and power smart and connected communities. Related user experience design efforts must involve and consider people with disabilities, including the world's rapidly aging population of seniors…" https://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol11/iss4/5/ Saying Goodbye to Joe O'Connor By Deborah Edwards-Onoro. "Along with the accessibility and user experience communities, I'm mourning the loss of one of our own, Joe O'Connor, who died January 3, 2020 after a chronic illness…" https://www.lireo.com/saying-goodbye-to-joe-oconnor/ Passing of Joseph O'Connor By Dennis Lembree. I'm deeply saddened to hear that Joseph O'Connor, tremendous accessibility advocate, recently died. http://www.webaxe.org/passing-of-joseph-oconnor/ +08: TYPOGRAPHY. Is it Better to use ems/rems than px for Font-Size? By Chris Coyier. "…it's still worth setting all your type (both font-size and line-height) in relative units because…" https://css-tricks.com/is-it-better-to-use-ems-rems-than-px-for-font-size/ +09: USABILITY. The Role of Animation and Motion in UX By Page Laubheimer. "Animation in UX must be unobtrusive, brief, and subtle. Use it for feedback, state-change and navigation metaphors, and to enhance signifiers." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/animation-purpose-ux/ Listen To Me And Not Google By Heydon Pickering. "…We have to stop confusing the excesses of capitalism with the hallmarks of quality. Sometimes Google aren't better, they're just more pervasive…" https://heydonworks.com/article/listen-to-me-not-google/ Why Does So Much Software Suck? By Gerry McGovern. "…Software and technology are still caught up in the features arms race, the power, bandwidth, storage arms races. So few of us take the time to stand back and say: What do we actually need this thing to do?" https://gerrymcgovern.com/why-does-so-much-software-suck/ [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +10: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? Accessibility Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/accessibility.html Association Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/associations.html Book Listings. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/books.html Cascading Style Sheets Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/css.html Color Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/color.html Drupal Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/drupal.html Evaluation & Testing Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/testing.html Event Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/events.html HTML Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/html.html Information Architecture Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/architecture.html JavaScript Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/javascript.html Miscellaneous Web Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/misc.html Navigation Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/navigation.html PHP Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/php.html Sites & Blogs Listing. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/sites.html Standards, Guidelines & Pattern Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/standards.html Tool Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/tools.html Typography Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/type.html Usability Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/usability.html XML Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/xml.html [Section two ends.] ++END NOTES. + SUBSCRIPTION INFO. 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