+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 20, Issue 35, February 23, 2022. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 35 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: DRUPAL. 04: EVALUATION & TESTING. 05: EVENTS. 06: JAVASCRIPT. 07: MISCELLANEOUS. 08: TOOLS. 09: USABILITY. 10: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. SECTION TWO: 11: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. Column Headers and Browser Support By Adrian Roselli. "Data tables need column headers. What they probably do not need is a new set of column headers every few rows, particularly not when they change the meaning of the data…" https://adrianroselli.com/2022/02/column-headers-and-browser-support.html There is No Character Limit for "alt text" By Eric Eggert. "Myth Debunked…" https://yatil.net/blog/there-is-no-character-limit-for-alt-text Alternative Text (Video) By Jessica McKay. "Okay, Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us to our first ever Knowbility, 'Be a Digital Ally.' And today we are covering the topic of alternative text…" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gcv6oJ0Vdw What is the Difference Between WCAG Compliance Level A, AA, and AAA? By Rajesh Bhimani. "…The three conformance levels are a decisive factor in your website's success…" https://www.skynettechnologies.com/blog/what-difference-between-wcag-compliance-level-aa-and-aaa Inclusive Design Vs. Accessible Design: Understanding the Differences By Bureau of Internet Accessibility. "While inclusivity and accessibility have intersecting principles, they're fundamentally distinct: Inclusive design focuses on diversity of use cases with the goal of ensuring that users of all backgrounds, abilities, and experiences can enjoy an equal user experience. Accessibility focuses on outcomes - whether the content is useful for people who have disabilities…" https://www.boia.org/blog/inclusive-design-vs.-accessible-design-understanding-the-differences Accessibility and Inclusive Design Meetup Groups By Deborah Edwards-Onoro. "…The list contains over 40 meetup groups…" https://www.lireo.com/accessibility-inclusive-design-in-person-groups/ Accessibility: A New Standard Test By Steven Mason. "Having seen the testing landscape for the last 10 years, there is one trend that I have been noticing over the last number of years, accessibility testing…" https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/accessibility-new-standard-test-steven-mason/ Seven Years of Asking: I'm Still Waiting for WordPress.com to Publish Captioned Videos By Deborah Edwards-Onoro. "I'm writing a post I didn't think I would ever write. It's about a multimillion dollar company where I'm a 10+ year customer…" https://www.lireo.com/seven-years-of-asking-im-still-waiting-for-wordpress-com-to-publish-captioned-videos/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. A Complete Guide to CSS Cascade Layers By Miriam Suzanne. "This is your complete guide to CSS cascade layers, a CSS feature that allows us to define explicit contained layers of specificity, so that we have full control over which styles take priority in a project without relying on specificity hacks or !important. This guide is intended to help you fully understand what cascade layers are for, how and why you might choose to use them, the current levels of support, and the syntax of how you use them…" https://css-tricks.com/css-cascade-layers/ Flexbox Dynamic Line Separator By Ahmad Shadeed. "While working on a UI, I needed to add a line separator between two sections…" https://ishadeed.com/article/flexbox-separator/ +03: DRUPAL. Our Top Drupal Modules for 2022 By Evolving Web Team. "…Some of our favourite modules are Drupal mainstays, while others are lesser-known. They range from very simple to rather elaborate, but they're all worth considering as you plan your next project…" https://evolvingweb.ca/blog/our-top-drupal-modules-2022-0 +04: EVALUATION & TESTING. Handling Observers in User Research By Maria Rosala. "Design team members should observe user research sessions, but this should be planned and managed to avoid having the observers distract and bias the study participants." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/observers-person-and-remote-usability-studies/ Secondary Research in UX By Mayya Azarova. "Secondary research is an essential foundation for UX work, necessary to explore the problem space and scope of prior projects and to identify important questions and best practices in the field of study. It also helps to focus the scope of your own project and often saves money." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/secondary-research-in-ux/ Five Styles of Statistical Rhetoric By Jeff Sauro and Jim Lewis. "When learning statistics, you'll encounter many formulas based on principles of probability and mathematics. But statistics isn't just a formulaic process where you enter data and are told what to do. Statistics should guide, not dictate, decisions…" https://measuringu.com/five-styles-of-statistical-rhetoric/ Testing: User, Usability, and Others You Should Be Using By Noah Rue. "When it comes to testing your user experiences, there are plenty of methods you can use that will get you the information you need…" https://usabilitygeek.com/testing-user-usability-and-others-you-should-be-using/ +05: EVENTS. You Don't Understand Inclusion Until You Understand What It's Like to be Excluded - a Talk by Molly Watt March 8, 2022. Online https://publicsectorinsight.digileaders.com/talks/you-dont-understand-inclusion-until-you-understand-what-its-like-to-be-excluded/ UX Conference April April 23-29, 2022. Online https://www.nngroup.com/training/april/ TheWebConf 2022 April 25-29, 2022. Lyon, France https://www2022.thewebconf.org/ National ADA Symposium May 9-13, 2022. Online http://www.adasymposium.org/ Accessibility Conference May 24-26, 2022. Online https://opened.uoguelph.ca/accessibility-conference?_mid_=1718 +06: JAVASCRIPT. Making a Custom Clear Text Field Button By Scott O'Hara. "…Today I made a script to demonstrate how to add custom clear buttons to text fields…" https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2022/02/19/custom-clear-buttons.html How to Create a Search Page for a Static Website with Vanilla JS By Chris Ferdinandi. "I'm going to share how I built the search functionality for my site with vanilla JS. Let's dig in…" https://gomakethings.com/how-to-create-a-search-page-for-a-static-website-with-vanilla-js/ SPAs Were a Mistake By Chris Ferdinandi. "For years, a trend in our industry has been to build single-page apps, or SPAs…" https://gomakethings.com/spas-were-a-mistake/ Cookies At The Edge: Not A Baking Blog Post By Austin Gil. "I came across an interesting use case for edge compute the other day: cookie management at the edge…" https://austingil.com/cookies-at-the-edge/ +07: MISCELLANEOUS. Disability And Representation: A Community Perspective By Fable Tech Labs. "There has been a lot of discussion in the disability community over the past few years about terminology, representation, and identity, led by both grassroots organizations and individual advocates…" https://makeitfable.com/insights/disability-and-representation-a-community-perspective/ +08: TOOLS. WebPageTest By Catchpoint. "Instantly test your site's performance in real browsers, devices, and locations around the world…" https://webpagetest.org/ +09: USABILITY. Making Design Improvements vs. Upsetting (Video) By Page Laubheimer. "Even if a design change improves the overall user experience, it can frustrate existing users who are used to things working a certain way." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/making-design-improvements/ Let's Get Inclusive: Designing Products for Everyone By Kelly Byrom. "…the design choices we make can have real implications for our users' opportunities, safety, and sense of belonging. To honor our users, let's truly design for everyone." https://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2022/02/lets-get-inclusive-designing-products-for-everyone.php +10: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. The Elements of Earth Experience By Gerry McGovern. "…There is a gargantuan, heavy, polluting surveillance tracking web underneath the Web we see. As digital professionals, let us seek out truth, let us embrace truth, and let us embed truth in our designs and in every piece of code and content we write…" https://gerrymcgovern.com/the-elements-of-earth-experience/ [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +11: 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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