+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 21, Issue 25, December 14, 2022. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 25 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: JAVASCRIPT. 08: MISCELLANEOUS. 09: TOOLS. 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. WCAG 3.0: Are We There Yet? By Ricky Onsman. "On 7 December 2021, the W3C Accessible Guidelines Working Group published a Working Draft of the W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0…" https://www.tpgi.com/wcag-3-0-are-we-there-yet/ What's New in WCAG 2.2? By Melissa Green. "The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is finalizing the latest version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 (WCAG 2.2) extends WCAG's layers of guidance by adding new success criteria focused on making web content more operable and understandable…" https://knowbility.org/blog/2022/whats-new-in-wcag-2-2 WCAG - Priority of Constituencies By Alastair Campbell. "There's a concept, originally from WHATWG I think, that might be worth translating for accessibility in a guidelines context: Priority of Constituencies…" https://alastairc.uk/2022/12/wcag-priority-of-constituencies/ Chat GPT's Accessible Dropdown By Russ Weakley. "I recently asked ChatGPT to: "write an accessible dropdown menu". The response was…" https://www.maxdesign.com.au/articles/accessible-dropdown.html The Problem With PDFs: It's an Accessibility Thing By Jackie Watson. "…if PDFs are so great, why will all Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) public-facing websites be PDF-free by 2023? That answer is easy: When compared with HTML content, information published in a PDF is harder to find, use and maintain…PDFs block people from accessing information easily. What's more, it's not a quick process to get PDFs remediated correctly. So a message to college leaders whose sites are loaded with PDFs: It's time to get rid of them…" https://www.ccdaily.com/2022/12/the-problem-with-pdfs-its-an-accessibility-thing/ Five Myths About Digital Accessibility (Video) By Crystal Preston-Watson. "Dispelling Five of the biggest myths about accessibility and digital technology with a special guest…" https://crystalprestonwatson.com/2022/12/12/five-myths-about-digital-accessibility/ W3C Publishes WCAG Testers Consistency List By Wilco Fiers. "If you've ever used two different accessibility testing tools, you will likely have noticed that the results can vary significantly…" https://www.deque.com/blog/w3c-publishes-wcag-testers-consistency-list/ W3C Accessibility Maturity Model (Note) Sheri Byrne-Haber, David Fazio, Janina Sajka, and Ruoxi Ran, Editors. "The W3C Accessibility Maturity Model is a guide for organizations to evaluate and improve their business processes to produce digital products that are accessible to people with disabilities…" https://www.w3.org/TR/maturity-model/ Video Interview Series #11: Accessibility and Inclusive Design Systems, with Brad Frost - Skip To Content By Brad Frost. "I had a great time on the Skip To Content podcast chatting about how design systems are great vehicles for delivering more accessible experiences to users…" https://bradfrost.com/blog/link/video-interview-series-11-accessibility-and-inclusive-design-systems-with-brad-frost-skip-to-content/ Meaningful labels Using ARIA - Or Not. By Suzy Naschansky. "If I had a dollar for every time I've had to tell someone to remove an aria-label from an interactive control that has actual visible text, I could have bought Twitter…" https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2022/7/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. New Viewport Units By Eric A. Meyer. "Review newly available units to manage space within the large, small, and dynamic viewport spaces…" https://12daysofweb.dev/2022/new-viewport-units/ State of CSS 2022 By Sacha Greif et al. "We thought CSS had already evolved into a pretty formidable language thanks to advancements like Flexbox, Grid, and CSS Variables. But it turns out this wasn't even its final form…" https://2022.stateofcss.com/en-US/ A Practical Guide to CSS Media Queries By Alex Ivanovs. "A complete overview for @media syntax as well as currently supported features…" https://stackdiary.com/css-media-queries/ Handling Images with Inconsistent Height in CSS By Amit Merchant. "When you're working with CSS, you often stumble upon a situation where you need to display a list of images with different heights…" https://www.amitmerchant.com/handling-images-with-inconsistent-height-in-css/ +03: EVALUATION & TESTING. Does Thinking Aloud Increase Task Time? By Jeff Sauro and Jim Lewis. "One of the most popular UX research methods is Think Aloud (TA) usability testing…" https://measuringu.com/impact-of-ta-on-task-times/ Supercharge UX Research by Automating Workflows and Repetitive Tasks By Kim Salazar. User research can be time- and resource-intensive, but there are ways to identify bottlenecks and create efficiencies in your process with scripts and automation solutions. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/automating-research-workflows/ Checklist for Moderating a User Test (Video) By Maria Rosala. "10 things you should do when running a usability study. Remembering all the steps leads to good research insights. (The second of 2 videos on usability study checklists.)" https://www.nngroup.com/videos/checklist-for-moderating-user-test/ Internal vs. External Validity in UX-Study Design (Video) By Raluca Budiu. "Internal validity ensures that your study design does not favor any particular condition or response, while external validity is about a naturalistic study setup and choice of participants." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/internal-vs-external-validity-ux-study-design/ +04: EVENTS. What's New in WCAG 2.2? December 15, 2022. Online https://events.humanitix.com/be-a-digital-ally-what-s-new-in-wcag-2-2 SmashingConf SF May 23-26, 2023. San Francisco, California, U.S.A. https://smashingconf.com/sf-2023/ HOW Design Live 2023 June 5-7, 2023. Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A. https://howdesignlive.com/ +05: HTML. There Can Be Only One: Options for Building 'Choose One' Fields By Aaron Gustafson. "Aaron takes you on a three-stop tour of the most common ways to create 'choose one' fields, using just HTML…" https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2022/11/ Dear Developer, Your Assumptions Are Wrong By Stefania Mellai. "As developers, validation of user input is one of the first things we are taught. What we usually learn a lot later (or sometimes never), is to challenge our own biases and assumptions…" https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2022/10/ One Day We'll Have a Fully Customisable Select By Hidde de Vries. "… is a new proposal that would add a new control to the web platform that is like