+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 21, Issue 07, August 10, 2022. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 07 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: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. 07: MISCELLANEOUS. 08: TOOLS. SECTION TWO: 09: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. 5 Heading Accessibility Issues and How to Fix Them By Whitney Lewis. "Headings make up the structure of our web content…" https://blog.pope.tech/2022/08/04/5-heading-accessibility-issues-and-how-to-fix-them/ Taking the Small Wins in Accessibility By Mark Steadman. "Accessibility is an essential and very crucial aspect in web and mobile development. Allowing for access for ALL users to be able to use the content you create in the digital space…" https://dev.to/steady5063/taking-the-small-wins-in-accessibility-2ded AI-Generated Images from AI-Generated Alt Text By Adrian Roselli. "Dear sighted reader, I want you to read this post without looking at the images. Each has been hidden in a disclosure…" https://adrianroselli.com/2022/08/ai-generated-images-from-ai-generated-alt-text.html What Are Best Practices for Creating Alt Text? By Anessa Kemna. "Alt-text or alternative text is a short block of text used to describe images and other non-text content on a website…" https://www.accessibility.com/blog/what-are-best-practices-for-creating-alt-text Brief Note on Calendar Tables By Adrian Roselli. "If you build calendars on the web and abbreviate the days in the column headings (you do use column headings, yeah?), this is how it sounds to a JAWS user…" https://adrianroselli.com/2022/08/brief-note-on-calendar-tables.html Accessibility and QR Codes By Joe Lamyman. "This blog post explores considerations and provides guidance for creating accessible experiences with QR codes…" https://tetralogical.com/blog/2022/08/08/accessibility-and-qr-codes/ Stranger Things' Captions: A Lesson in Language and Detail By Abby Alepa. "…While Stranger Things' captions are a good example of how important closed captions are and have given accessibility a bit of a spotlight, it also brings up some questions around captioning best practices and standards of which creators should be mindful…" https://www.3playmedia.com/blog/stranger-things-captions-a-lesson-in-language-and-detail/ Keyboard Shortcuts Need Modifier Keys By Hidde de Vries. "…Keyboard shortcuts are most accessible when they include modifier keys like Ctrl or Cmd, so that they don't frustrate voice input users and users with fine motor impairments. If your interface has shortcuts that are just one or more 'printing characters', any character that prints something on the screen, best combine them with modifiers." https://hidde.blog/keyboard-shortcuts/ Inclusive Design 24 Returns September 22, 2022 By Deborah Edwards-Oñoro. "How digital accessibility can remove barriers from job searching websites, designing with ethics in mind, and an inclusive design workflow for teams are among the topics for this year's Inclusive Design 24 (ID24) conference…" https://www.lireo.com/inclusive-design-24-returns-september-22-2022/ Web Accessibility is Broken. It's Time to Fix It. (Video) By Eric Eggert. "The web is still an accessibility wasteland…" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZYiweHuo_I How Our Organization Improved Web Accessibility (Case Study) By Catherine Houle & Ilknur Eren. "In this article, Catherine Houle and Ilknur Eren share how their organization 'Understood' removes barriers for people who learn and think differently by combining accessibility and usability in their processes. They also cover basic steps on how to fix common accessibility issues." https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/08/organization-improved-web-accessibility-case-study/ WCAG 2.2 Status Update By Rachael Bradley Montgomery. "We have begun the process of moving WCAG 2.2 to Candidate Recommendation (CR) status…" https://whollyaccessible.org/2022/08/05/wcag-2-2-status-update/ Deja Vu All Over Again? DOJ Announces Intent to Adopt Web Accessibility Regulations for State and Local Governments By Lainey Feingold. "This is an article about law in the United States. In July 2022 the Department of Justice said it will write new regulations next year about making certain websites accessible to disabled people. The DOJ announcement only applies to government websites. This includes public schools and public higher education colleges and universities. The DOJ tried to adopt regulations more than twelve years ago but did not. Will it happen this time? We don't know. Lainey tries to be optimistic. It is hard to be confident that new regulations will happen, but regulations are very important for a digital world that works for everyone." https://www.lflegal.com/2022/08/doj-web-regs-announce/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Not All Zeros are Equal By Miriam Suzanne. "There's a well-established 'best practice' that CSS authors (as well as linters and minifiers) should remove units from any 0 value. It's a fine rule in most cases, but there are a few common situations where it will break your code…" https://www.oddbird.net/2022/08/04/zero-units/ The Surprising Truth About Pixels and Accessibility By Josh W. Comeau. "'Should I use pixels or ems/rems?!' This is a question I hear a lot…" https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/surprising-truth-about-pixels-and-accessibility/ +03: EVALUATION & TESTING. Inclusive User Research: Recruiting Participants By Ela Gorla. "One of the most important and challenging aspects of running inclusive user research is finding participants with a wide range of access needs, who can provide feedback on different features of your products…" https://tetralogical.com/blog/2022/08/01/inclusive-user-research-recruiting-participants/ Guided vs. Unguided User Studies By Therese Fessenden. "Directed user research where you ask people closed-end questions can bias the outcome in favor of those things that are being asked about. Unguided studies are often better at revealing true user preferences."" https://www.nngroup.com/videos/guided-vs-unguided-user-studies/ Comparison of SEQ With and Without Numbers By Jeff Sauro and Jim Lewis. "…Did dropping numbers from the SEQ make a difference? Once again it turns out, not really…" https://measuringu.com/comparison-of-seq-with-and-without-numbers/ +04: EVENTS. Getting To Work: Actioning Upon Your Accessibility Audit August 11, 2022. Online https://www.levelaccess.com/resources/getting-to-work-actioning-upon-your-accessibility-audit/ Prepare For WCAG 2.2, and Beyond with Jon Avila August 18, 2022. Online https://www.levelaccess.com/resources/prepare-for-wcag-2-2-and-beyond/ Delivering Great Customer Experiences with Inclusive and Accessible Digital Media August 24, 2022. Online https://www.levelaccess.com/resources/webinar-delivering-great-customer-experiences-with-inclusive-and-accessible-digital-media/ Alt Text: Everything You Need to Know Beyond Just "99 Red Balloons" September 15, 2022. Online https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/webinar-details?id=a0A3p0000186nG3EAI An Accessibility Checker That Should Be Part of Your Toolkit November 15, 2022. Online https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/webinar-details?id=a0A3p0000183esXEAQ Defending Accessibility November 28, 2022. Online https://www.meetup.com/accessibility-twin-cities/events/286617513/ +05: HTML. Helpful Online Resources for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Accessibility, and Email By Deborah Edwards-Oñoro. "When Alexis Deveria launched Can I Use? in 2008, the helpful online site that eventually grew to include support tables for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it was a welcome resource for designers and developers…" https://www.lireo.com/helpful-online-resources-html-css-javascript-accessibility-and-email/ +06: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. Polyhierarchy in Information Architecture By Page Laubheimer. "Polyhierarchy is used to place a single item in more than one IA category. This can support users with different mental models but should be used judiciously." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/polyhierarchy-information-architecture/ +07: MISCELLANEOUS. Fireside Chat with Judy Heumann (Video) By 3Play Media. "Hi, everyone. Thank you for joining us today for a very special fireside chat with Judy Heumann…" https://www.3playmedia.com/resources/recorded-webinars/wbnr-08-04-2022-judy/ A list of words or phrases you can use in your every day conversations instead of ableist words like "crazy" or "insane" By Derek Featherstone. "ridiculous, unbelievable, unreal, out of control, wild…" https://twitter.com/feather/status/1555257849349083137 +08: TOOLS. Luma By Evan Levesque. "A powerful and accurate photosensitive epilepsy seizure triggers detection tool…" https://www.includia.com/luma [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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