+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 21, Issue 18, October 26, 2022. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 18 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: MISCELLANEOUS. 07: TOOLS. 09: 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. Barry Hill Talks About Screen Readers and Lack of Semantic Meaning on the Web By Nicolas Steenhout. Barry says he has to guess a lot about what elements do what on a site, because semantically meaningful markup isn't being used. https://a11yrules.com/podcast/barry-hill-talks-about-screen-readers-and-lack-of-semantic-meaning-on-the-web/ SEO and Accessibility Are Symbiotic By Matthew Luken. "Welcome to the second installment of a 4-part blog series about Accessibility…" https://www.deque.com/blog/seo-and-accessibility-are-symbiotic/ Prepare For WCAG 2.2, and Beyond (Video) By Jon Avila. Jon's August 18 presentation: "In this session, Level Access Chief Accessibility Officer Jonathan Avila will draw from his wealth of knowledge and experience with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, and help you understand how to implement the latest standards in your digital platforms, while also staying ready to meet future requirements." https://vimeo.com/741906336 WCAG 2.2 Success Criteria By Bhupesh Singh. "This blog is about overview of WCAG 2.2 and brief explanation of its Success Criteria…" https://dev.to/bhupesh_singh/wcag-22-success-criteria-3d1g People: The Best Reason for Accessible Digital Technology By Jennie Delisi. "Your colleagues. Your neighbors. Your friends. They need accessible digital technology. You may not even know that they do…" https://mn.gov/mnit/media/blog/?id=38-544857 Reassessing Content Design Guidelines for Visual Accessibility, Usability, and Storytelling: A Case Study of Historical Photography Archives (PDF) By Gabrielle Kyra Sumilang et al. "This research explores how to better support the accessibility of content design without sacrificing informational value presented through visual storytelling. In revisiting Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 and looking ahead to version 3.0, we reassess current guidelines toward more accessible content design of multimedia information as part of an ongoing reevaluation of inclusionary practice in communication design." https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3513130.3559000 Google on Alt Text SEO & Accessibility By Roger Montti. "Google podcast discussion considers balancing alt text for SEO & accessibility…" https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-on-alt-text-seo-accessibility/468044/#close The Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act By Abby Alepa. "On September 29, 2022, Senator Tammy Duckworth and Representative John P. Sarbanes introduced the Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives in an effort to remove barriers to web content for people with disabilities…" https://www.3playmedia.com/blog/the-websites-and-software-applications-accessibility-act/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. A Dashing Navbar Solution By Eric A. Meyer. "…I enjoy hackery as much as the next codemonaut, but I'm happier when the hacks are more elegant and minimal." https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2022/10/19/a-dashing-navbar-solution/ CSS Specificity for Beginners By Nic Chan. "…In this article, we'll be focusing on the idea of CSS specificity…" https://www.nicchan.me/blog/css-specificity-for-beginners/ +03: COLOR. More Attractive, Engaging, Accessible: How To Use Color With Intention By Jennie Delisi. "…This month we review the concept of color as a sensory characteristic of text. We cover who needs you to use color intentionally, what to consider when planning to use text with color, and how to test…" https://mn.gov/mnit/media/blog/?id=38-544858 Colorblind Accessibility Manifesto By Federico Monaco et al. "Before designing a website, or even making a small change to an existing one, ask if your design choices consider the needs of people with color blindness…" https://colorblindaccessibilitymanifesto.com/ +04: EVALUATION & TESTING. Stakeholder Interviews 101 By Sarah Gibbons. "Interviewing stakeholders provides helpful information about their context, allows us to identify business goals they are concerned with, and increases their support." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/stakeholder-interviews/ The 2022 Research Incentives Report By User Interviews Inc. "What to pay research participants, according to data from nearly 20,000 moderated and unmoderated research projects…" https://www.userinterviews.com/blog/research-incentives-report +05: EVENTS. Accessibility Insights with Natalie Tucker from Spotify November 1, 2022. Online https://abilitynet-org-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/6216662574876/WN_v9Mu7WFWTzqePeJ5_43OHQ Mobile Site and Native App Accessibility Testing Workshop November 3, 2022. Online https://events.humanitix.com/mobile-site-and-native-app-accessibility-testing-workshop DEIA: What Does It Mean to Have Accessibility in the Federal Workplace? November 29, 2022. Online https://www.accessibilityonline.org/cioc-508/session/?id=111021 #a11yTO Camp 2023 January 21, 2023. Toronto, Ontario, Canada https://camp.a11yto.com/ DeveloperWeek February 15-24, 2023. Online and San Francisco, California, U.S.A. https://www.developerweek.com/ ConFoo 2023 February 22-24, 2023. Montreal, Canada https://confoo.ca/en/2023/ axe-con March 15-16, 2023. Online https://www.deque.com/axe-con/ +06: MISCELLANEOUS. W3C WAI Updates, October 2022 By Shawn Lawton Henry. "Several changes are in progress at the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), each exciting in different ways. W3C and WAI staff are supporting our accessibility work on the current path during this transition…" https://www.w3.org/blog/2022/10/w3c-wai-updates-october-2022/ The Death of Mozilla is the Death of the Open Web By TechHut. "If you look at the current desktop browser market share, Chrome takes up almost 70%. That is 70% of the web is controlled by just one company, a company that makes money by selling your user data and pushing ads. They also have a huge incentive to get as much control of web standards as possible to increase their profits…" https://medium.com/@TechHutTV/the-death-of-mozilla-is-the-death-of-the-open-web-689e53e7c75c +07: TOOLS. Color Contrast Analyzer (CCA) By The Paciello Group Interactive. CCA has been updated. "If you've already downloaded a previous version of the Color Contrast Analyzer, make sure you update to the latest version 3.2.0…" https://www.tpgi.com/color-contrast-checker/ The update is a mix of fixes and improvements documented at: https://github.com/ThePacielloGroup/CCAe/releases/tag/v3.2.0 +08: USABILITY. UX is People (UX Slogan #7)(Video) By Jakob Nielsen. User experience is not really about computers or technology. It's about the users (people) and about the design teams and proper processes for their members (people) to produce good UX. https://www.nngroup.com/videos/ux-is-people-ux-slogan-7/ Explain UX with User-Centered Design (Video) By Kim Salazar. "Most short explanations of 'what is UX?' are quite internally-focused and rely on understanding the process for building digital products. Here are 3 steps to explain what you do that normal people can understand and will relate to." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/explain-ux-user-centered-design/ When Life Gives You Lemons, Write Better Error Messages By Jenni Nadler. "When it comes to error handling, it truly is a team sport…" https://wix-ux.com/when-life-gives-you-lemons-write-better-error-messages-46c5223e1a2f 4 Ways to Optimize the Comparison Feature for Scanning By Edward Scott. "…In this article, we'll discuss our Premium research findings related to the design of comparison features, and how to improve their scannability…" https://baymard.com/blog/user-friendly-comparison-tools +09: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. What Is 'Dark Data' and How Is It Adding to All of Our Carbon Footprints? By Tom Jackson and Ian R. Hodgkinson. "'Dark data' is single-use digital data - things we put in the cloud and never access again…You can even make a start yourself by deciding which photos and videos you no longer need. Every file stored on the Apple iCloud or Google Photos adds to your digital carbon footprint." https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/10/dark-data-is-killing-the-planet-we-need-digital-decarbonisation Material Complexity Hurts Reusability, Repairability and Recyclability By Gerry McGovern. "Today's smartphones are incredibly complex and a great deal of this complexity is unnecessary…" https://gerrymcgovern.com/material-complexity-hurts-reusability-repairability-and-recyclability/ +10: XML. The Proprietary Syndication Formats By Chris Coyier. "…Guess which format is going to outlast all these proprietary syndication formats. I'd say RSS, which I believe to be true, but really, it's HTML." https://chriscoyier.net/2022/10/17/the-proprietary-syndication-formats/ What I Learned About SVG Accessibility (Among Other Things) From NBC News' Senate 'What If' Project By Joe Murphy. "…making it work on screen readers and other assistive devices was a goal, here's some of what we did and what we learned…" https://joemurph.com/article/detail/what-i-learned-about-svg-accessibility-among-other-things-nbc-news-senate-what-if-project/ [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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