+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 19, Issue 47, May 19, 2021. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 47 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: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. 07: MISCELLANEOUS. 08: NAVIGATION. 09: TOOLS. 10: USABILITY. 11: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. SECTION TWO: 12: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. For Wide Review: WCAG 2.2 Working Draft (Announcement) By Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). "The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AG WG) has published an updated Working Draft of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 for wide review…Please submit comments by 4 June 2021." https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/9052 What's New in WCAG 2.2 Working Draft By WAI at W3C. Shawn Lawton Henry, Editor. "This page lists the proposed new success criteria in the Working Draft of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2…" https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/new-in-22/ We Need to Talk About WCAG By Rian Rietveld. "…My point is: focus first on education and on making the guidelines accessible, understandable, findable and indisputable. Wait with the WCAG 2.2 roll out. First we need to give web creators all the help they need. Because they obviously do need it…" https://level-level.com/blog/we-need-to-talk-about-wcag First Steps to an Accessible Website (Part 4) By Jeff Singleton. "…Headings on a webpage or not meant for visual styling. Headings play a critical role for users of assistive technology and are one of the easily discoverable "issues" that is identified by accessibility scanning tools…" https://convergeaccessibility.com/2021/05/10/first-steps-to-an-accessible-website-part-4/ Automated Accessibility Testing Gets You on the Way, But Doesn't Find All the Problems By Christian Heilmann. "…The main thing to remember is that automated tests are a great way to get started and find the most obvious flaws. But they are not the end of the process if you really want to create accessible products." https://chrisheilmann.medium.com/you-cant-automate-accessibility-testing-9f278ab6b7a Proving Accessibility Is Worth It With Analytics By Josh Harrison. "… I asked three questions: How do you know when an accessibility update is actually being used? How can you track what changes are most successful? How do you prove time spent towards a code change has value?…" https://blogs.intuit.com/blog/2021/05/06/proving-accessibility-is-worth-it-with-analytics/ Accessibility for All - Three Things You Can Do for Global Accessibility Awareness Day By Mike Mooney. "…1. Review the WCAG and 508 compliance checklists… 2. Evaluate your website for WCAG oversights… 3. Start identifying how you can integrate accessibility into each phase of your digital product development process…" https://www.tpgi.com/global-accessibility-awareness-day/ Examining Visual Semantic Understanding in Blind and Low-Vision Technology Users By Venkatesh Potluri, Tadashi E Grindeland, Jon E. Froehlich, and Jennifer Mankoff. "…Findings show that participants could benefit from access to visual semantics for collaboration, navigation, and design. To learn this information, our participants used trial and error, sighted assistance, and features in existing screen reading technology like touch exploration. Finally, we found that missing information and inconsistent screen reader representations of user interfaces hinder learning…" https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3411764.3445040 Screen Reader User Survey #9 By WebAIM. "The following survey is a follow-up to previous WebAIM Screen Reader User Surveys conducted December 2008, September 2009, December 2010, May 2012, January 2014, July 2015, October 2017, and September 2019…" https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey9/ 4 Helpful Accessibility Resources from the Web Accessibility Initiative By Deborah Edwards-Onoro. "As someone who's been an accessibility advocate for over 15 years, I'm often asked questions from fellow web designers, developers, and colleagues about web accessibility resources…" https://www.lireo.com/helpful-accessibility-resources-from-the-web-accessibility-initiative/ How to Open a Budget Accessibility Simulation Lab By Andreea Vlad. "An Accessibility Simulation Lab (sometimes known as an Accessibility Empathy Lab) is a space that allows employees and visitors to experience how people with varied impairments and abilities may interact with technology and online services…" https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2021/05/17/how-to-open-a-budget-accessibility-simulation-lab/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Learn CSS By Andy Bell et al. "An evergreen CSS course and reference to level up your web styling expertise…" https://web.dev/learn/css/ Support (Not) Unknown By Miriam Suzanne. "Adding Container Query tests to CSS @support…" https://www.oddbird.net/2021/05/14/support-unknown/ CSS Zen Garden Turns 18 By Bruce Lawson. "Saturday 8 May was the 18th birthday of the famous CSS Zen Garden…" https://brucelawson.co.uk/2021/css-zen-garden-turns-18/ +03: EVALUATION & TESTING. Classifying Survey Questions into Four Content Types By Jeff Sauro and Jim Lewis. "…Robinson and Leonard (2018) offered a more compact framework with four types of questions that contain the groups identified by Schaeffer and Dykema. Their framework seems to work well for the survey questions we typically encounter in CX and UX research. We further built on their classification system to describe four types of questions that should encompass all types of survey questions: attributes, behaviors, abilities, and thoughts/sentiments…" https://measuringu.com/four-types-of-survey-content/ +04: EVENTS. Fostering an Enterprise-wide Culture of Inclusion - How University of Cincinnati Sustains an Ongoing Commitment to Inclusion and Accessibility Compliance (Host Derek Featherstone) May 20, 2021 Online https://www.levelaccess.com/resources/fostering-enterprise-culture-inclusion/ Siteimprove's GAAD 2021 May 20, 2021. Online https://siteimprove.com/en-us/gaad-2021/ ACCESS at Home - Let's talk about the world beyond the pandemic June 7-10, 2021. Online https://www.3playmedia.com/access/ Web Accessibility Techniques and Testing (Virtual) August 26, 2021. Online https://events.humanitix.com/web-accessibility-techniques-and-testing-virtual-august-vision-australia Overcoming Obstacles to Manual Accessibility Testing October 12, 2021. Online https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/content.asp?admin=Y&contentid=756 +05: HTML. Enough With the Role-Play - Let's Get Back to the Basics By Ian Lloyd. "…If it looks like a button, it can be clicked like a button, and it smells like a button… then it should probably be a