+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 20, Issue 38, March 16, 2022. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 38 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: EVALUATION & TESTING. 05: EVENTS. 06: JAVASCRIPT. 07: MISCELLANEOUS. 08: TOOLS. 09: TYPOGRAPHY. 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. Call for Participation in Low Vision Community Group By W3C Team. "The mission of the Low Vision Community Group is to work with and support the Low Vision Task Force of the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group to improve web accessibility for people with low vision…" https://www.w3.org/community/low-vision/ It Needs to Map Back to a Role By Eric Bailey. "…WCAG Success Criterion 4.1.2: Name, Role, Value is one of the most important rules of the whole document. If you are unfamiliar, it states that all interactive content needs to have the following…" https://ericwbailey.design/writing/it-needs-to-map-back-to-a-role/ The Future Of Web Accessibility: WCAG 3.0 By Ran Ronen. "Since its formation, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has transformed the internet as we know it…" https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2022/03/11/the-future-of-web-accessibility-wcag-30/?sh=4035ca507b99 Accessibly Insecure By Crystal Preston-Watson. "…As information security becomes more of a priority and concern for individuals, accessibility of solutions and applications must be at the forefront so that everyone can protect their information and data from risk." https://a11ysavvy.com/2022/01/31/accessibly-insecure/ Accessible Social By Alexa Heinrich. "Accessible Social is a free resource hub for digital marketers, communication professionals, content creators, everyday social media users, and anyone who wants to learn how to make their content inclusive and accessible for people with disabilities…" https://www.accessible-social.com/ Image Description (or alt text) Experience on Twitter By Twitter Accessibility. "We've gotten a lot of feedback about how to improve the image description (or alt text) experience on Twitter. Today, we're launching 2 features…" https://twitter.com/TwitterA11y/status/1501603777006260226 Inclusive Design 24 Returns September 22, 2022: Call for Speakers By Deborah Edwards-Oñoro. "…Launched in 2014, Inclusive Design 24 (ID24) is a free 24-hour online event of presentations about inclusive design and accessibility…" https://www.lireo.com/inclusive-design-24-returns-september-22-2022-call-for-speakers/ #FACILiti Will Get You Sued By Adrian Roselli. "FACIL'iti is one of many vendors that claims its accessibility overlay product can make your site 'accessible'…" https://adrianroselli.com/2022/03/faciliti-will-get-you-sued.html The Law on Website and Mobile Accessibility Continues to Grow at a Glacial Pace Even as Lawsuit Numbers Reach All-Time By Minh Vu, Kristina Launey and John Egan. "Website accessibility laws are evolving slowly and businesses are eager for guidance in this uncertain landscape…" https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_practice/publications/law_practice_magazine/2022/jf22/vu-launey-egan/ As the Winn-Dixie Saga Finally Concludes in Florida, 181 Advocacy Groups Urge DOJ to Issue Website Accessibility Regulations By Kristina M. Launey and Minh Vu. "The Eleventh Circuit has refused to reconsider its decision to vacate its prior order and the trial court's judgment because of mootness; meanwhile disability rights advocates demand regulatory action from DOJ on accessible websites.…" https://www.adatitleiii.com/2022/03/as-the-winn-dixie-saga-finally-concludes-in-florida-181-advocacy-groups-urge-doj-to-issue-website-accessibility-regulations/ The Implementation of Web Accessibility Standards by Dutch Municipalities, Factors of Resistance and Support (PDF) By Eric Martin Velleman. "… The result is a set of recommendations for local governments that help them identify processes that support or resist the actual implementation of web accessibility standards. This not only contributes to the accessibility of the web for people with disabilities, it may also be helpful for the implementation of other guidelines and (open) standards within local governments." https://www.accessibility.nl/files/2019-05/PROEFSCHRIFT_ERIC_VELLEMAN_def.pdf +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Giving New Meanings to the Color Functions in CSS By Alvaro Montoro. "…This article is a tongue-in-cheek review of some of the different ways to write a color in CSS. It is not an in-depth review and not really that funny anyway, but if it refreshes some knowledge (or provides a new one), I'll consider it a success…" https://alvaromontoro.com/blog/67999/a-new-meaning-for-color-functions-in-css Aligning Content In Different Wrappers By Ahmed Shadeed. "The other day, I was working on an article layout and I stumbled upon an interesting problem to solve…" https://ishadeed.com/article/aligning-content-different-wrappers/ When or If By Eric A. Meyer. "The CSSWG (CSS Working Group) is currently debating what to name a conditional structure, and it's kind of fascinating. There are a lot of strong opinions, and I'm not sure how many of them are weakly held…" https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2022/03/14/if-or-when/ +03: COLOR. First Impressions of Forced Colors Emulation By Melanie Richards. "…There is still some work left to do before forced colors emulation is great, but the addition of this feature is good news…" https://melanie-richards.com/blog/forced-colors-emulation/ +04: EVALUATION & TESTING. Eight Laws of Statistics By Jeff Sauro and Jim Lewis. "Statistics doesn't have a Magna Carta, constitution, or bill of rights to enumerate laws, guiding principles, or limits of power…" https://measuringu.com/abelsons-laws/ +05: EVENTS. Building a More Accessible Social Virtual Reality World April 12, 2022. Online https://www.meetup.com/a11yvr/events/284494637/ Pitfalls of Machine Generated PDFs June 9, 2022. Online https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/webinar-details?id=a0A3p0000183egREAQ Developing Industry Consensus Standards for Accessibility Reporting July 27, 2022. Online https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/webinar-details?id=a0A3p0000183eiXEAQ +06: JAVASCRIPT. How to Automatically Size a Textarea Based on Its Using Vanilla JavaScript By Chris Ferdinandi. "Last year, I wrote an article sharing Stephen Shaw's awesome trick for simple, autogrowing textarea elements…" https://gomakethings.com/how-to-automatically-size-a-textarea-based-on-its-using-vanilla-javascript/ +07: MISCELLANEOUS. Make It Boring By Jeremy Wagner. "A good case can be made for why boring can be preferable to exciting…" https://jlwagner.net/blog/make-it-boring/ +08: TOOLS. Want to Improve Developer Tools in Microsoft Edge? File an Issue on Github By Chris Heilmann. "Today we released a new GitHub repository for the Developer Tools in Microsoft Edge where you can file issues about problems, bugs and features you would like to see…" https://christianheilmann.com/2022/03/09/want-to-improve-developer-tools-in-microsoft-edge-file-an-issue-on-github/ +09: TYPOGRAPHY. Font Accessibility By Gareth Ford Williams. "If you are interested in font accessibility have a look at this study…20 Fonts, 2022 test participants, each font evaluated 16,800 times each over 7,000 study hours…" https://www.linkedin.com/posts/garethfordwilliams_dont-believe-the-type-axe-con-2021-activity-6904510195884445696-93xG +10: USABILITY. Carousels: No One Likes You. By Joni Halabi. "…The only person who wants a carousel on your site is you. That's it. It's a self-serving vanity project so that you can showcase all of your babies at the same time without telling the world which one is your favorite…Carousels are a desperate attempt to give the same level of importance to multiple pieces of content. If everything is important, nothing is important. So, think about what is actually important for your users to see…you decide, make that the focus of your page. Your users (and developers) will thank you." https://jhalabi.com/blog/carousels-no-one-likes-you Learning UX by Doing UX (Video) By Jakob Nielsen. "The best way to learn UX is by *doing* UX. Knowing some theory and concepts is key, but superior skills are built by reflecting upon the outcome of practicing the skill." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/learning-ux-doing-ux/ What Makes a Dark UI Pattern? By Alita Joyce. "Dark design patterns intentionally trick users into doing things they don't want to do. This is different than persuasive UX which nudges users without deception." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/what-makes-a-dark-ui-pattern/ Confirmation Bias in UX By Jennifer Junge. "People tend to prefer information that confirms their existing beliefs and to undervalue information that contradicts their beliefs. With the appropriate research methods, the confirmation bias can be recognized and avoided in UX design." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/confirmation-bias-ux/ The State of Ecommerce UX: COVID-19 and Direct-to-Consumer Retail Raise the Bar By Kate Moran and Kim Salazar. "User research for the 5th edition of our report series on ecommerce user experience report indicates that 'good' isn't good enough when it comes to online shopping." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/state-of-ecommerce-ux/ My Journey into Voice Prototyping By Jeff Villa. "Voice technology is one of the hottest trends right now…" https://www.uxbooth.com/articles/my-journey-into-voice-prototyping/ +11: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. Ethical, Fair Working Conditions By Gerry McGovern. "…Let there be no mistake. It is the rich Europeans and North Americans who are ravaging the climate. Caught up in our smugness and arrogance, we continue to colonize and destroy, just this time we think we have created an outsourcing model that allows us to claim plausible deniability…" https://gerrymcgovern.com/ethical-fair-working-conditions/ [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +12: 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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