+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 20, Issue 28, January 4, 2022. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 28 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: COLOR. 03: EVALUATION & TESTING. 04: EVENTS. 05: JAVASCRIPT. 06: MISCELLANEOUS. 07: TYPOGRAPHY. 08: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 09: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. Five 2022 Accessibility Trends By Sheri Byrne-Haber. "More of the same, with a few notable differences…" https://uxdesign.cc/five-2022-accessibility-trends-9b0fe09adef2 WCAG and Accessibility: What is a Statement of Partial Conformance? By Bureau of Internet Accessibility. "…a website may claim partial conformance as a part of their accessibility statement. Essentially, this statement says that the website doesn't fully conform with WCAG because of third-party content that the author cannot control…Third-party content can affect the accessibility of content you control, so if you have a large or dynamic website, you'll need to monitor third-party content regularly…" https://www.boia.org/blog/wcag-and-accessibility-what-is-a-statement-of-partial-conformance Podcasts Need Transcripts: December 2021 Lawsuit Against SiriusXM By Lainey Feingold. "This is an article about a lawsuit filed in the United States. The case was brought by the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) and deaf and hard of hearing people against three large podcast companies…" https://www.lflegal.com/2022/01/siriusxm-lawsuit/ University of Illinois Chicago Digital Accessibility Structured Negotiation By Lainey Feingold. "This is an article about a legal settlement. The settlement improves digital access for blind students and employees at the University of Illinois Chicago. The University worked with a blind employee and the Equip for Equality non-profit law office. There was no lawsuit. Instead, the parties worked in Structured Negotiation…" https://www.lflegal.com/2021/12/university-of-illinois/ Increasing Faculty's Competence In Digital Accessibility for Inclusive Education: A Systematic Literature Review By Way Kiat Bong and Weiqin Chen. "The use of information and communications technology (ICT) in higher education institutions has increased in the past 20 years. While ICT has brought many benefits to students and faculty, research shows that it also creates barriers and challenges for students with disabilities due to the inaccessibility of digital tools and learning materials…" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13603116.2021.1937344 Exhibit A for 21-cv-00017 Sole reliance on accessiBe will not be sufficient in ensuring full and equal access to a website By Karl Groves. "…This report demonstrates that implementing the accessiBe product onto a website cannot ensure full and equal access to a website as required by the ADA. As a result, clients must not rely solely on accessiBe and must instead take a more direct and strategic approach to managing their own accessibility." https://www.scribd.com/document/490740167/Exhibit-A-for-21-cv-00017 +02: COLOR. A Contrast of Errors By Andrew Somers. "Nearly three years ago, I began thread #695 on the WCAG Github, pointing out the several significant problems with the WCAG_2 contrast guidelines, including 1.4.3, and especially the WCAG_2 maths and methods for estimating contrast…" https://medium.com/tangledweb/a-contrast-of-errors-373c2665d42a +03: EVALUATION & TESTING. 49 UX Metrics, Methods, and Measurement Articles from 2021 By Jim Lewis and Jeff Sauro. "…We covered a lot of topics in 2021, including UX metrics, methods, rating scales, and UX industry benchmarks. Here's a summary of those articles with some takeaways from each…" https://measuringu.com/ux-2021/ User Research for Non-Existent Products (Video) By Therese Fessenden. "If your product doesn't exist yet, and you don't even have a prototype, you can (and should) still base design decisions on user research. Observational research methods can gather information about user needs and provide input to new-product ideation." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/user-research-non-existent-products/ +04: EVENTS. Trends in Digital Accessibility for 2022 January 27, 2022. Online. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-accessibility-experts-live-registration-111949261254 National ADA Symposium May 9-12, 2022. Online http://www.adasymposium.org/ 11th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) May 19, 2022. Global http://www.globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org +05: JAVASCRIPT. Add a Service Worker to Your Site By Chris Ferdinandi. "One of the best things you can do for your website in 2022 is add a service worker, if you don't have one in place already. Service workers give your website super powers…" https://css-tricks.com/add-a-service-worker-to-your-site/ Improving Accessibility: VoiceOver By Bas Broek. "Now that you've gotten some experience with VoiceOver, and made some improvements to make your app more accessible with VoiceOver, let's now take a look at what's still missing, and the extra steps you can take…" https://www.basbroek.nl/improving-voiceover +06: MISCELLANEOUS. Web3 is Centralized By Wesley Aptekar-Cassels. "…The funny thing is, web3, as it exists today and appears to be building towards, is actually more centralized than the web it seeks to replace…" https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/web3-centralized Metaphors We Web By By Maggie Appleton. "A history of our metaphorical understanding of the web…" https://maggieappleton.com/metaphors-web + 07: TYPOGRAPHY. Letter and Symbol Misrecognition in Highly Legible Typefaces for General, Children, Dyslexic, Visually Impaired and Ageing Readers By Thomas Bohm. "This paper identifies easily misrecognised letters and symbols in highly legible typefaces for general, children, dyslexic, visually impaired and ageing readers…" https://typography.guru/journal/letters-symbols-misrecognition/ +08: USABILITY. User-Experience Quiz: 2021 UX Year in Review By Raluca Budiu. "Test your usability knowledge by taking our quiz. All questions and answers are based on articles that we published last year." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-quiz/ UX-Maturity Stage 6: User-Driven By Kim Salazar. Consistently and systematically, these organizations have achieved UX maturity by making the internal changes necessary to be truly user-centered. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-maturity-stage-6/ How to Practice Empathy (Video) By Alita Joyce. "Understanding and sharing the needs and motivations of users will lead to better design decisions. Observational research should be non-judgmental while keeping an open mind and reducing bias." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/how-practice-empathy/ [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +09: 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 WebWaste & Sustainability Information. https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/webwaste.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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