+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 20, Issue 50, June 7, 2022. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 50 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: HTML. 06: JAVASCRIPT. 07: MISCELLANEOUS. 08: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 09: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. WCAG 3 Compliant? Check Again By Rachael Bradley Montgomery. "…WCAG 3 is still in draft. Nothing can conform or comply with WCAG 3 at this time while it is in draft. It should not even be cited as guidance at this time…" https://whollyaccessible.org/2022/06/02/wcag-3-compliant-check-again/ WCAG 2.2 and WCAG 3 Status Updates By Rachael Bradley Montgomery. "As a co-chair of the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG), I often read social media posts about the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) with concern. There is a lot of misunderstanding and miscommunication about the AGWG standards process…" https://whollyaccessible.org/2022/06/02/wcag-2-2-and-wcag-3-status-updates/ Keyboard-Only Scrolling Areas By Adrian Roselli. "I have spent a few years banging on about ensuring scrolling areas on a page are accessible to keyboard-only users…" https://adrianroselli.com/2022/06/keyboard-only-scrolling-areas.html Making Videos and Audio Accessible By Whitney Lewis. "When it comes to accessible video and audio content, we usually think about captions. But, there is more to it than just captioning…" https://blog.pope.tech/2022/06/01/making-videos-and-audio-accessible/ Sustaining Accessibility Efforts Through Accessibility-Related Appraisal Objectives By Matthew Deeprose and Tamsyn Smith. "How can IT departments sustain their accessibility efforts? While there are vital procedural and technical answers we should also consider the importance of cultural change. In this presentation, Tamsyn Smith and Matthew Deeprose will discuss early work at the University of Southampton on embedding accessibility within appraisal objectives." https://matthewdeeprose.github.io/objectives Smashing Podcast Episode 47 With Sara Soueidan: Why Does Accessibility Matter? By Drew McLellan. "In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we ask why accessibility really matters and why it is so important to get it right. Smashing's Vitaly Friedman talks in-depth to Sara Soueidan to find out." https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/05/smashing-podcast-episode-47/ Two US Government Agencies Warn about Hiring Technology that Discriminates Against Disabled Applicants By Lainey Feingold. "This is an article about technology and new US government guidance about that technology…" https://www.lflegal.com/2022/05/disability-discrimination-hiring-tech/ Legal Update May 2022 By Ken Nakata. "Here's my monthly legal update a day early! All things considered, May was a pretty slow month in my morning Lexis feed…" https://convergeaccessibility.com/2022/05/31/legal-update-may-2022/ +02: COLOR. Top Seven Free Color Contrast Checkers & Analyzers By Hampus Sethfors. "Here are seven great free tools that help you measure color contrasts and create beautiful, accessible color schemes that fulfill the contrast requirements in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)…" https://axesslab.com/top-color-contrast-checkers/ +03: EVALUATION & TESTING. Field Studies vs. Diary Studies (Video) By Maria Rosala. "Field studies and diary studies are two research methods that help you learn about your users' real-world context, which is important for good design. They have different advantages and downsides." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/field-studies-vs-diary-studies/ Use Good Prototype Specifications to Empower Team Collaboration By Leeloo Tang and Feifei Liu. "Three types of prototype specifications help explain how a design looks and is implemented. Clear prototype specifications empower team collaboration and lower communication costs." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/prototype-specifications/ +04: EVENTS. Accessibility Basics Webinar June 16, 2022. Online https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqdOmprD8iH9RTyaviNAIDqvxOzObTbR7d a11yTO Camp June 18, 2022. Toronto, Ontario, Canada https://camp.a11yto.com/ Stop Screaming Into the Void - Getting Your Accessibility Ideas Heard by Those Above You June 28, 2022. Online https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/webinar-details?id=a0A3p0000186nBcEAI dConstruct September 9, 2022. Brighton, England, United Kingdom https://2022.dconstruct.org/ Blue Beanie Day November 30, 2022. Online https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Beanie_Day International Day of People with Disability December 3, 2022. Global https://www.idpwd.com.au/ +05: HTML. The ‘Form' Element Created the Modern Web. Was It a Big Mistake? By Paul Ford. "A little HTML widget gave us all-powerful Amazon and Facebook. There's no closing Pandora's text box now." https://www.wired.com/story/form-element-modern-web-mistake/ XHTML Syntax is Still Worth Using By Martin Underhill. "…for me, many XHTML rules remain best practices for HTML…" https://www.tempertemper.net/blog/xhtml-syntax-is-still-worth-using +06: JAVASCRIPT. How to Format a Number as Currency With the Intl.NumberFormat API in Vanilla JavaScript By Chris Ferdinandi. "…Today, we're going to learn how to use that same API to format currency…" https://gomakethings.com/how-to-format-a-number-as-currency-with-the-intl.numberformat-api-in-vanilla-javascript/ +07: MISCELLANEOUS. Interview with Léonie Watson By Denis Boudreau. "…let's dive right into this week's interview with Léonie Watson (she/her). Léonie is blind and comes to us from England, United Kingdom…" https://inklusiv.ca/interview-with-leonie-watson/ How Can Tech Be More Inclusive? Salesforce's New VP of Accessibility & Inclusive Design Offers Answers By Christina Zhang. "…Engage and include disabled people as soon as possible in the design process…" https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/salesforce-product-accessibility-and-design-approach/ +08: USABILITY. 24 Hours of UX Returns June 8th By Deborah Edwards-Oñoro. "The world's largest UX community-led conference returns for the third year on June 8, 2022 for 24 hours of online user experience learning…" https://www.lireo.com/24-hours-of-ux-returns-june-8th/ [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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