+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 20, Issue 51, June 15, 2022. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 51 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: MISCELLANEOUS. 07: TOOLS. 08: USABILITY. 09: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. SECTION TWO: 10: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. WCAG SC 1.4.4 Resize Text & 1.4.10 Reflow By Eric Eggert. "There seems to be a confusion about the relationship and how to test for the WCAG 2.1 Success Criteria 1.4.4 Resize Text and 1.4.10 Reflow…" https://yatil.net/blog/resize-text-reflow How to use Headings for Website Accessibility By UsableNet. "…Headings, when constructed well, serve as a guide to a website. Like in an outline for a paper, headings should be used to organize the parts of a website into related groups, not to lend a decorative feel to your webpage…" https://blog.usablenet.com/how-to-use-headings-for-website-accessibility Are You Ignoring Digital Accessibility at Your Job? By Preety Kumar. "…average homepage has 50.8 accessibility issues, and there's been an uptick in digital accessibility lawsuits in recent years. What's not clicking?…" https://thenewstack.io/are-you-ignoring-digital-accessibility-at-your-job/ Change Management for Accessibility: Part 1 By Michael Harsbarger and Heidi Kelly-Gibson. 'Accessibility is hard. Getting others to adopt it is hard! How do I get this done?!' https://www.deque.com/blog/change-management-for-accessibility-part-1/ Best Practices for Overlays By Ken Nakata. "A few months ago, I received an unusual call from Christopher Lee and Mark McCusker at the International Association of Accessibility Professionals…" https://convergeaccessibility.com/2022/06/06/best-practices-for-overlays/ Overlays Are Here To Stay. By Karl Groves. "…here's the problem: Overlay companies have already demonstrated - as an industry - they they don't care about good UX or ethics…the fact that these products remain in the marketplace doesn't make them any more useful…" https://karlgroves.com/overlays-are-here-to-stay-so-are-male-enhancement-pills/ Van Hollen, Duckworth, Durbin Call on DOJ to Ensure Government Websites Comply with the ADA By Chris Van Hollen. "U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) along with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) in urging the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to provide better guidance and regulations to help State and local governments better comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act's (ADA) accessibility requirements on their websites, mobile applications and other forms of technology. In a letter sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Senators wrote…" https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-releases/van-hollen-duckworth-durbin-call-on-doj-to-ensure-government-websites-comply-with-the-ada Domino's Pizza v. Guillermo Robles, No. 18-1539 By Jack McElaney. "The SCOTUS decision On Robles v. Domino's case could hve a domino effect for other corporations…" https://www.microassist.com/digital-accessibility/dominos-pizza-guillermo-robles/ Why This Electronic Health Records Accessibility Lawsuit Matters By Thomas Logan. "…The most important element in the Bone v. UNC Health case is the general lack of focus and scrutiny on healthcare information technologies in the larger accessibility discussion…" https://equalentry.com/accessibility-lawsuit-electronic-health-records/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Mobile-First CSS: Is It Time for a Rethink? By Patrick Clancey. "The mobile-first design methodology is great-it focuses on what really matters to the user, it's well-practiced, and it's been a common design pattern for years. So developing your CSS mobile-first should also be great, too…right?…" https://alistapart.com/article/mobile-first-css-is-it-time-for-a-rethink/ CSS Card Shadow Effects By Hui Jing. "…it did not occur to me to use a negative value for the box-shadow at all. But now that I know about this approach, I cannot unsee it…" https://chenhuijing.com/blog/css-card-shadow-effects/ +03: EVALUATION & TESTING. Inclusive User Research: Analysing Findings By Ela Gorla. "…discusses some of the unique challenges posed by findings from sessions run with people with disabilities, and advice on how to analyse them…" https://tetralogical.com/blog/2022/06/08/inclusive-user-research-analysing-findings/ Usability Testing 101 (Video) By Kate Moran. "UX researchers use this popular method to uncover problems and opportunities in designs." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/usability-testing-101/ Should You Use Nonparametric Methods to Analyze UX Data? By Jeff Sauro and Jim Lewis. "Near the top of the list of concerns people have when using statistics with UX data is what to do with non-normal data…" https://measuringu.com/should-you-use-nonparametric/ Democratize User Research in 5 Steps By Kara Pernice. "Democratization of user research makes it possible for anyone to study users. Assessment, training, coaching, and helpful resources set people and teams up to succeed."" https://www.nngroup.com/articles/democratize-user-research/ Thinking About Surveys of Patients With Loyal By Caroline Jarrett. "An anti-problem widens up what we ask about…" https://www.effortmark.co.uk/thinking-about-surveys-of-patients-with-loyal/ +04: EVENTS. Join the Journey: 2022 Digital Accessibility Conference June 16, 2022. https://accessibility.wfu.edu/events/a11y-conference-2022/ A Smashing Hour with… Sara Soueidan June 16, 2022. Online https://ti.to/smashingmagazine/a-smashing-hour-sara-part4 Surveys That Work with Caroline Jarrett June 16, 2022. Online https://www.meetup.com/uxvienna/events/285819410/ Lean UX Design: From Deciphering the Problem Space to Ideation June 22, 2022. Online https://www.meetup.com/5a19c5dd-103c-45cf-942c-1e8bf34aadec/events/285820614/ Finding the Forest Through the Accessibility Tree June 23, 2022. Online https://www.meetup.com/cleveland-accessibility-meetup/events/286391802/ +05: HTML. Forms Demo: Keyboard Users Love Forms By Bruce Lawson. "Just good old-fashioned plain HTML. Keyboard accessible by default…" https://brucelawson.co.uk/forms.html Interneting Is Hard (But it doesn’t have to be) By Interneting Is Hard. "Friendly web development tutorials for complete beginner…" https://www.internetingishard.com/ +06: MISCELLANEOUS. InEx: A Show About Inclusive Design. By Matt May. "A series of interviews with experts in the field of inclusive design and product equity, hosted by Matt May…" https://inex.show/ Making Word Clouds and Polling Fully Accessible to All Meeting Attendees By Sheri Byrne-Haber. "If you want to be perceived as inclusive, you have to BE inclusive. Otherwise, your words and actions are merely performative…" https://sheribyrnehaber.medium.com/making-word-clouds-and-polling-fully-accessible-to-all-meeting-attendees-a0cb39902ea0 +07: TOOLS. Automatic Readability Checker By Readability Formulas. "…takes a sample of your writing and calculates the number of sentences, words, syllables, and characters in your sample. Our program takes the output of these numbers and plugs them into seven popular readability formulas. These readability formulas (see below) will let you know the reading level and grade level of your text and help you determine if your audience can read your writing…" https://www.readabilityformulas.com/free-readability-formula-tests.php +08: USABILITY. Mobile UX Trends: The Current State of Mobile UX (15 Common Pitfalls & Best Practices) By Baymard Institute. "…Avoid the 15 common UX pitfalls identified in the article to begin improving your site's mobile UX…" https://baymard.com/blog/mobile-ux-ecommerce Takeaways from Why and How of User By Deborah Edwards-Oñoro. "In her 'Why and How of User Research for Global Audiences' presentation at 24 Hours of UX 2022, Rüya Ince shared insights, tips, and resources for designing better global products and services by localizing user research…" https://www.lireo.com/takeaways-from-why-and-how-of-user-research-for-global-audiences/ Improving Your Writing: What Is Singular They? By Deborah Edwards-Oñoro. "…'they' is slowly becoming the accepted word to refer to someone in a gender-neutral way. As I learned in the four-minute What Is Singular They? video from the Oregon State University School of Writing, Literature, and Film, there are a number of reasons for the transition…" https://www.lireo.com/improving-your-writing-what-is-singular-they/ A Tale of Two Ovens By Matthew Laurence. …UX and CX should often work together closely, sharing insights and working from the same top-level customer journey, with no surprises… https://mattynabib.medium.com/a-tale-of-two-ovens-8c7bfeec29e +09: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. Good Energy By Wholegrain Digital. "…Good Energy has gone to considerable lengths to raise awareness of greenwashing, so it was important too for their website to raise awareness of digital carbon emissions. Their new website reflects this with an impactful, colourful design, and is, of course, powered by 100% renewable energy…" https://www.wholegraindigital.com/work/good-energy/ Chip-making Gulps Water By Gerry McGovern. "The smaller things become, the more resource and energy intensive they are to make…" https://gerrymcgovern.com/chip-making-gulps-water/ [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +10: 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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