+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 18, Issue 45, May 6, 2020. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 45 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: COLOR. 04: EVALUATION & TESTING. 05: EVENTS. 06: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. 07: JAVASCRIPT. 08: NAVIGATION. 09: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 10: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. Avoid aria-roledescription By Adrian Roselli. "…if the mis-use continues and screen readers are forced to override specified behavior as a result, you can expect this attribute to be deprecated in the future. In my opinion, that may be the best outcome given where we are today." https://adrianroselli.com/2020/04/avoid-aria-roledescription.html Results of Labeling Lists By Scott O'Hara. "…Developers can label a list by using an aria-label or aria-labelledby on the containing list element (e.g., ol, or ul). Doing so will give the list an accessible name, which can be situationally helpful (more on that later). https://www.scottohara.me//note/2020/05/02/labelled-lists.html Challenges with Accessibility Guidelines Conformance and Testing, and Approaches for Mitigating Them Janina Sajka and Michael Cooper, editors. "This document explores how testability and page-based conformance verification of the WCAG 2.0 and 2.1 accessibility guidelines are challenging to apply to a broad range of websites and web applications. It also explores approaches for mitigating these challenges, to realize as accessible a site as possible…" https://www.w3.org/TR/accessibility-conformance-challenges/ 1.2.7 - Extended Audio Description (Pre-recorded) By Luke McGrath. "Provide extended audio description for pre-recorded videos…" https://wuhcag.substack.com/p/127-extended-audio-description-pre Accessible Datepickers Roundup By Raghavendra Satish Peri. "…Denis from Webaxe has a good collection here which I also listed below… all of these date pickers seem to work well with JAWS & Chrome browser& you might want to customize them further according to your needs…" https://www.digitala11y.com/accessible-datepickers- A Future Date (Videos) "That's a wrap! All twenty (yes, TWENTY) A Future Date sessions are now posted…" https://www.youtube.com/c/AFutureDate/videos Restaurant Website Accessibility Falls Short at a Critical Time By Karl Groves. "…Last week, we decided to do some research. We grabbed the URLs of 15,000 of the top-ranked restaurant websites in the United States. The results were… interesting…" https://blog.tenon.io/restaurant-website-accessibility-falls-short-at-a-critical-time The Curve Has Flattened for Federal Website Accessibility Lawsuits By Kristina M. Launey. "We've sheltered in place and finished our tally. The numbers are in for total website accessibility lawsuit filings in federal courts in 2019, they show a small decrease from 2018…" https://www.adatitleiii.com/2020/04/the-curve-has-flattened-for-federal-website-accessibility-lawsuits/amp.html/ The Digital Accessibility Legal Summit 2020 (Video) "…An update on the team putting together the Digital Accessibility Legal Summit. This video features talks on the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on legal issues for people with disabilities working and studying from home; new laws from Canada on digital accessibility and their impacts for US-based practice; and on Inclusion trends in the current marketplace…" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN4OaJDRTyM +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. An Introduction to CSS Grid By Chris Ferndinandi. "CSS Grid is an insanely powerful way to build layouts. But because it can do so much (and because most tutorials love to show you all the fancy stuff it can do), learning the basics can feel overwhelming…" https://gomakethings.com/an-introduction-to-css-grid/ A Complete Guide to CSS Functions By Chris Coyier. "In programming, functions are a named portion of code that performs a specific task…" https://css-tricks.com/complete-guide-to-css-functions/ No-Comma Color Functions in CSS By Chris Coyier. "…This is a nice change that makes CSS a bit more clear. Before, every single color function actually needs two functions, one for transparency and one without, this eliminates that need and brings the syntax more-inline with CSS grammar overall…" https://css-tricks.com/no-comma-color-functions-in-css/ A .Button is a Button is a Link By Jonathan Snook. "You're working on a project and in it you see a button. It looks like a button, it acts like a button. It is a button. It is a