+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 19, Issue 14, October 1, 2020. 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? https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/ New links in these categories: 01: ACCESSIBILITY. 02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. 03: COLOR. 04: DRUPAL. 05: EVALUATION & TESTING. 06: EVENTS. 07: HTML. 08: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. 09: JAVASCRIPT. 10: MISCELLANEOUS. 11: NAVIGATION. 12: TOOLS. 13: TYPOGRAPHY. 14: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 15: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. How Screen Readers Navigate Data Tables By Léonie Watson. "When a table is created using the appropriate HTML elements (or ARIA roles) screen readers can inform users about the characteristics of the table, and users have access to keyboard commands specifically for navigating tabular content…" https://tink.uk/how-screen-readers-navigate-data-tables/ Comica11y By Paul Spencer. "ComicA11y is an experiment that aims to achieve an all-inclusive online comic reading experience. Because comics should be universal…" https://comica11y.humaan.com/ New WCAG 2.2 Release Impacts 2021 Web Accessibility By Essential Accessibility. "The second update of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) since 2018 is expected to be published in November 2020…" https://www.essentialaccessibility.com/blog/new-wcag-22-release-impacts-2021-web-accessibility Gutenberg Accessibility Costs WordPress the W3C Work By Adrian Roselli. "…Studio24 cited accessibility as the deciding factor…" https://adrianroselli.com/2020/09/gutenberg-accessibility-costs-wordpress-the-w3c-work.html On Not Choosing WordPress for the W3C Redesign Project By Simon R Jones. "…For us, and the requirements from W3C, the delivery of accessible HTML/CSS pages that meet user needs is the most important part of this project - and where we are focussing our time…" https://w3c.studio24.net/updates/on-not-choosing-wordpress/ W3C Is Prioritizing Accessibility Over Its Open Source Licensing Preferences By Amanda Rush. "…Until Gutenberg gets to a point where it's as easy to use as the classic editor, (if it ever does), organizations who either employ or want to employ people with disabilities are going to continue to drop WordPress over it. And telling them to fork WordPress or to maintain the classic editor plugin after WordPress stops doing that isn't a solution to the problem. It's about the most obtuse thing that could be said." https://www.customerservant.com/w3c-is-prioritizing-accessibility-over-its-open-source-licensing-preferences-why-is-that-a-bad-thing-again/ The W3C Drops WordPress from Consideration By Joe Dolson. "…Gutenberg does not provide adequate accessibility for the organization that defines standards for web site accessibility and the accessibility of authoring tools. If we're looking at a small organization, or an environment where you know exactly who is administering or authoring within your admin environment, then yes - WordPress offers an adequate level of accessibility, within a defined set of parameters. For a large organization, and for this one in specific, WordPress is in no way adequate…" https://www.joedolson.com/2020/09/the-w3c-drops-wordpress-from-consideration/ Marketing Accessibility Based on Human Life Experiences By Kim Krause Berg. "Learn why inclusive web design trumps AI-based accessibility remediation solutions and the importance of marketing with people - not sales - in mind…" https://www.searchenginejournal.com/marketing-accessibility-based-on-human-life-experiences/381605 It's Time To Escalate The Naming And Shaming Of Inaccessible Websites By Gus Alexiou. "Last week marked a watershed moment in the relatively short history of the drive for universal web accessibility…" https://www.forbes.com/sites/gusalexiou/2020/09/28/its-time-to-escalate-the-naming-and-shaming-of-inaccessible-websites/ Burnet County Named in Complaint Over Elections Website Accessibility By Alex Copeland. "Burnet County was named in a systemic class complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice on Sept. 4. The complaint was filed by the advocacy group Disability Rights Texas (DRTx). It alleges that more than 80 county election websites in Texas do not comply with federal laws requiring the sites be accessible to people with disabilities…" https://www.dailytrib.com/2020/09/14/burnet-county-named-in-suit-over-elections-website-accessibility/ RadioShack Sued for Alleged ADA Website Accessibility Violation By Christina Tabacco. "…Cindy Lucius filed an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) complaint against General Wireless Operations Inc., which does business as RadioShack. The plaintiff brought the case seeking, among other things, injunctive relief requiring RadioShack to make its commercial website usable for the visually impaired…" https://lawstreetmedia.com/tech/radioshack-sued-for-ada-website-accessibility-violation/ Industry Leading HR and Payroll Company, ADP, Sued for Discrimination Against Blind Employees By Disability Rights Advocates. "On September 17,2020, San Francisco's LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired (LightHouse) and two of its employees filed a lawsuit against payroll processing and HR giant ADP for failing to make its industry-leading products and services accessible to blind managers and line staff…" https://dralegal.org/press/industry-leading-hr-and-payroll-company-adp-sued-for-discrimination-against-blind-employees/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Writing Even More CSS with Accessibility in Mind (Video) By Manuel Matuzović. "If you love CSS, have a look at CSS Café - Online Meetup…" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm8GAB5SF5c Finding The Root Cause of a CSS Bug By Ahmad Shadeed. "…In this article, I will go through the process of fixing a bug from the root and explore some common CSS issues and how fixing them from the outside can result in more issues.…" https://ishadeed.com/article/finding-the-root-cause/ Linearly Scale font-size with CSS clamp() Based on the Viewport By Pedro Rodriguez. "…we're going to explore a different way to linearly scale text between a set of minimum and maximum sizes as the viewport's width increases, with the intent of making its behavior at different screen sizes more predictable - All in a single line of CSS, thanks to clamp()…" https://css-tricks.com/linearly-scale-font-size-with-css-clamp-based-on-the-viewport/ +03: COLOR. Color Within Constraints By Linzi Berry. "A scalable color system for digital products…" https://medium.com/tap-to-dismiss/color-within-constraints-d6f777a3b72d Color Choices That are Accessible By Manisha Gupta. "…Color is a foundational element in any creative work. When I took the challenge to design the Color Accessibility feature for Adobe Color, it wasn't a linear path…" https://blog.adobe.com/en/2020/09/16/color-choices-that-are-accessible.html 04: DRUPAL. CMS Selection Report By Marie Manandise. …One name that kept cropping up in conversations is Drupal…The Drupal community has made a commitment to accessibility since version 7 (it is currently on version 9). We had initially not considered Drupal because, from our experience with it, the complexity of its configuration is a liability; even more so in large projects…Looking at accessibility, although it has a good reputation and accessibility is part of its development process, it is not fully accessible. To make it meet the required standards would mean contributing to the code (doing it ourselves), for which we don't currently have the resources, or getting the community to work on it. Unfortunately, due to the size of the Drupal community and the fact that it is decentralised, this process would take a very long time…" https://w3c.studio24.net/docs/cms-selection-report/#the-large-open-source-option +05: EVALUATION & TESTING. How to Code Errors in Unmoderated Studies By Jeff Sauro and Jim Lewis. "Errors can provide a lot of diagnostic information about the impacts of UI problems on the user experience and their root causes…" https://measuringu.com/error-coding-unmoderated/ Simplifying the UMUX-LITE By Jeff Sauro and Jim Lewis. "It seems like every few years a new standardized UX measure comes along.…" https://measuringu.com/modified-umux-lite-usefulness-item/ +06: EVENTS. UX Measurement Boot Camp October 13-16, 2020. Online https://measuringu.com/events/ux-bootcamp-2020/ What's in the WCAG 2.2 Draft? October 20, 2020. Online https://www.meetup.com/Nebraska-Digital-Accessibility-Meetup/events/273615021/ Closing The Gap October 28-November 11, 2020. Online https://www.closingthegap.com/conference/ Disability Rights Advocates Virtual Gala October 29, 2020. Online https://app.mobilecause.com/e/ucpeYA Front-End Accessibility Masterclass November 6-20, 2020. Online https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops/workshops/marcy-sutton-nov/ UX Conference November November 9-20, 2020. Online https://www.nngroup.com/training/november/ World Usability Day November 12, 2020. Everywhere https://worldusabilityday.org/ +07: HTML. The Failed Promise of Web Components By Lea Verou. "Web Components had so much potential to empower HTML to do more, and make web development more accessible to non-programmers and easier for programmers. …" https://lea.verou.me/2020/09/the-failed-promise-of-web-components/ How to Use HTML5 Sectioning Elements to Create Useful Accessible Landmarks By Graham Armfield. "Using HTML5 sectioning elements - such as
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