+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 20, Issue 01, July 02, 2021. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 01 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: 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. An Inclusive Approach to Video Production By Tetra Logical. "Step 1: Write a comprehensive text transcript… Step 2: Include a description of all informative visual content in the audio track… Step 3: Add captions to your video… Step 4: Add a text transcript to your page…" https://tetralogical.com/articles/an-inclusive-approach-to-video-production/ Screen Reader User Survey #9 Results By WebAIM. "In May - June 2021, WebAIM surveyed preferences of screen reader users. We received 1568 valid responses. This was a follow-up to 8 previous surveys that were conducted between January 2009 and September 2019…" https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey9/ Fundamentals and Gaps - Everyone has the Power to be Accessible By Jay Wyant. "…Regardless of whether you're writing a document or building a web application, make sure you use the basic building blocks of digital accessibility…" https://mn.gov/mnit/media/blog/?id=38-485847 Julieanne King Talks About Moving Content on Pages and ADHD By Nicolas Steenhout. "Julieanne says when she's information seeking, trying to accomplish a task, movement on the screen, that is not something that she causes to happen or choose to happen can absolutely derail her…" https://a11yrules.com/podcast/julieanne-king-talks-about-moving-content-on-pages-and-adhd/ ExtractTable: Convert Tabular Data From Images By Deborah Edwards-Onoro. "…I asked Amy (Carney) if I could interview her about her ExtractTable experience, why she considered it, what she learned, and any recommendations or concerns she had. She kindly accepted my invitation. It was my pleasure to chat with her about ExtractTable…" https://www.lireo.com/extracttable/ How to Ensure Telehealth is Accessible for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing By Meryl K. Evans. "After a whole year of the pandemic, it finally happened…" https://blog.diamond.la/how-to-ensure-telehealth-is-accessible-for-the-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing Will Accessibility Become Increasingly Important for SEO? By David Oltean. "…If the goal of your SEO strategy is to bring users to your website through search engines and encourage those users to take desired actions on your website property, then you should already be incorporating accessibility considerations into your SEO strategies and audits…" https://www.deque.com/blog/accessibility-importance-for-seo/ Log Jams By Dave Rupert. "Unblock your backlog with multidimensional accessibility audits…" https://daverupert.com/2021/06/log-jams/ The Unseen Benefits of Accessibility By Christian Heilmann. "A few days ago I posted a graph I found some time ago that jokingly explained the benefits of subtitles in movies and tweeted about it…" https://christianheilmann.com/2021/06/30/the-unseen-benefits-of-accessibility/ 5 Myths About Screen Readers That Can Hurt Accessibility By Bureau of Internet Accessibility. "…Here are some common myths about screen readers, along with the facts to help you design more effectively…" https://www.boia.org/blog/5-myths-about-screen-readers-that-can-hurt-accessibility National Convention Sponsorship Statement Regarding accessiBe By The National Federation of the Blind. "…accessiBe peremptorily and scornfully dismisses the concerns blind people…" https://nfb.org/about-us/press-room/national-convention-sponsorship-statement-regarding-accessibe Overreliance on Overlays is Counter to Enculturation of Accessibility By Anil Lewis. "…we will continue to call out those companies-all businesses, including the overlay companies-when they fall short of a truly accessible, usable experience. This will be so especially when they falsely advertise their product or service as a solution to a problem that plagues our ability to obtain equal access…" https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm21/bm2105/bm210510.htm 94% of the Largest E-Commerce Sites Are Not Accessibility Compliant By Alex Krzyminski. "Our rating of 33 top-grossing e-commerce sites against 4 core accessibility guidelines reveals that 94% of sites are incomplaint (WCAG 2.1 AA)…" https://baymard.com/blog/accessibility-benchmark-launch Another Big Win in the Domino's Pizza Accessibility Saga By Lainey Feingold. "This is an article about a judge's decision in the Domino's Pizza web access case. The judge ruled that Domino's violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. It violated the law because its website was not fully accessible to a blind customer. The judge ordered Domino's to fix the site. Domino's also must pay $4,000.00 to the blind person who filed the lawsuit. The judge also ruled that Domino's mobile app was covered by the ADA. But the judge did not have enough facts to decide who won that part of the case. This order is the next step after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in 2019 not to hear the case." https://www.lflegal.com/2021/06/dominos-june-2021/ Domino's Accessibility Lawsuit Update By Sheri Byrne-Haber. "Several significant rulings were made on 6/25/21 on competing Motions for Summary Judgment 20 months after the Supreme Court kicked the Robles case back down to the district court…" https://sheribyrnehaber.medium.com/dominos-accessibility-lawsuit-update-a66e7e592eab Court Finds Domino's Pizza Violated the ADA by Having an Inaccessible Website and Orders WCAG Compliance By Minh N. Vu. "California federal trial court grants summary judgment for plaintiff, finding Domino's violated the ADA by having a website that is inaccessible to the blind and orders Domino's bring its website into compliance with the WCAG 2.0 guidelines…" https://www.adatitleiii.com/2021/06/court-finds-dominos-pizza-violated-the-ada-by-having-an-inaccessible-website-and-orders-wcag-compliance/ Federal District Court Judge Rules that Domino's Violated Title III of the (ADA) By Marissa Sapega. "…the ruling ordered Domino's to 'bring its website into compliance with the WCAG 2.0 guidelines'…" https://www.tpgi.com/federal-district-court-judge-rules-that-dominos-violated-title-iii-of-the-ada/ Midyear Report - App & Web Accessibility Lawsuits on Track for Record By Jason Taylor. "Our bi-annual report is out and below are the highlighted trends we are seeing along with some color behind the numbers…" https://blog.usablenet.com/midyear-report-app-and-web-accessibility-lawsuits-on-track-for-record +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. prefers-reduced-motion and Browser Defaults By Bruce Lawson. "…I propose that browsers should never respect scroll-behavior: smooth; if a user prefers reduced motion, regardless of whether a developer has set the media query… until all browser vendors do my bidding (it only took 5 years for the element), please consider adding this to your CSS…" https://brucelawson.co.uk/2021/prefers-reduced-motion-and-browser-defaults/ Using CSS to Enforce Accessibility By Adrian Roselli. "I am a big proponent of the First Rule of ARIA (don't use ARIA). But ARIA brings a lot to the table that HTML does not, such as complex widgets and state information that HTML does not have natively…" https://adrianroselli.com/2021/06/using-css-to-enforce-accessibility.html inherit, initial, unset, revert By Chris Coyier. "There are four keywords that are valid values for any CSS property…" https://css-tricks.com/inherit-initial-unset-revert/ Organize Your CSS Declarations Alphabetically By Eric Bailey. "There are a few schools of thought when it comes to organizing your CSS declarations…" https://ericwbailey.design/writing/organize-your-css-declarations-alphabetically/ What Does 'font: 110%/1.4 system-ui' Mean? By Chris Coyier. "I use this line, or one like it, in a lot of quick demos. Not that it's not a production-worthy line of code-I just tend to be a bit more explicit on bigger projects…" https://css-tricks.com/what-does-font-110-1-4-system-ui-mean/ +03: EVALUATION & TESTING. Confidence Intervals, Margins of Error, and Confidence Levels in UX By Raluca Budiu. "A confidence-interval calculation gives a probabilistic estimate of how well a metric obtained from a study explains the behavior of your whole user population." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/confidence-interval/ Social Media UX: 3 Research Insights By Alita Joyce. "Companies should experiment with interactive social media content types, include relevant calls to action in posts, and avoid posting too frequently." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/social-media-research-insights/ The UMUX-Lite Usefulness Item: Assessing a 'Useful' Alternate By Jim Lewis and Jeff Sauro. "…The results of these studies have demonstrated the practical measurement equivalence of five alternative forms of the UMUX-Lite Perceived Usefulness item. UX researchers and practitioners can use any of them in place of the standard version when computing means. Pending planned replication, researchers should be aware of the possibility of small deviations when computing top-one-box scores with '{Product}'s functions meet my needs' and top-two-box scores with '{Product} is useful…'" https://measuringu.com/umux-lite-useful-alternative/ +04: EVENTS. WebAIM Virtual Web Accessibility Training July 21-22, 2021. Online https://webaim.org/training/virtual/ Online Celebration: ADA 31st Anniversary - Celebrating Resilience! July 26, 2021. Online https://celebrateadamn.com/ada-31-event-information/ New Approaches to Web Accessibility Requirements under WCAG3 July 27, 2021. Online https://www.accessibilityonline.org/training/session/?id=110939 The Fatal Flaw of Overlays July 28, 2021. Online https://groups.drupal.org/node/536440 Disability Rights Advocates' 2021 Virtual Gala October 7, 2021. Online https://app.mobilecause.com/e/w72R2Q +05: HTML. What Does a List Sound Like? By Rik Schennink. "…Use the '