+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 22, Issue 15, October 4, 2023. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 15 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: JAVASCRIPT. 06: MISCELLANEOUS. 07: NAVIGATION. 08: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. SECTION TWO: 09: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. Form Accessibility and Usability Beyond the Basics By Whitney Lewis. "…In this article, we'll briefly go over form functionality that websites often don't consider…" https://blog.pope.tech/2023/09/26/form-accessibility-and-usability-beyond-the-basics/ How to Be an Accessibility Ally By Meryl K. Evans. "…Being an accessibility ally isn't just for the workplace. Everyone can speak up and take action to improve accessibility…" https://meryl.net/how-to-be-accessibility-ally/ Four Reasons to Give WCAG AAA a Second Look By John Northup. "…Here are my own top four AAA success criteria that deserve consideration…" https://webaim.org/blog/wcag-aaa-second-look/ Overlays: Just Another Disability Dongle By Ricky Onsman. "…Overlays do nothing to address the underlying reasons for website inaccessibility. Quite apart from questions of their efficacy, cost benefits and legal status, they simply don't solve the problem…" https://www.tpgi.com/overlays-just-another-disability-dongle/ User-Centered Web Accessibility: Recommendations for Ensuring Access to Government Information for Older Adults By Claudia Sofia Idrobo Cruz, Ember Ubeimar Martínez Flor, and Maria Isabel Vidal Caicedo. "…This study, accessibility recommendations for government web applications and for older adults were evaluated using a website from the Municipality of Popayán as a case study. The aim of the study was to validate and adjust these recommenda-tions according to the needs and characteristics of end users…" https://revistas.ucc.edu.co/index.php/in/article/view/4593 Paris Web 2023: WCAGmire By Adrian Roselli. "I was invited to the 2023 edition of Paris Web as one of two presenters speaking solely English. I did my best to script my talk to hopefully make it easier for the captioners and live translators. As of this writing, I have no idea if they will hate me or not…" https://adrianroselli.com/2023/09/paris-web-2023-wcagmire.html Leaders are Preparing Minnesota for a More Accessible Technology Future By Jennie Delisi. "The State of Minnesota is preparing to change their digital accessibility standard…" https://mn.gov/mnit/media/blog/?id=38-592504 Legal Update: September 2023 By Ken Nakata. "…This month, we've got quite a bit to discuss…" https://convergeaccessibility.com/2023/10/02/legal-update-september-2023/ US Supreme Court Acheson Hotel Case May Impact Web Accessibility Lawsuits By Lainey Feingold. "…This lawsuit is about a hotel's failure to post information on its website about accessible rooms, which is required by the ADA. This case is not about web accessibility but the court's opinion may impact web access cases. The opinion is not expected until 2024…" https://www.lflegal.com/2023/10/acheson-tester-standing-case/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. CSS Terminology Demystified (Video) By Zoran Jambor. "There are plenty of CSS terms that might be confusing and difficult to understand properly; in this video, we'll cover everything you need to know to get confident with basic CSS terminology, like declaration, declaration-block, statement, and more…" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKfclpLSjME CSS Subgrid By Adam Argyle. "CSS grid is a very powerful layout engine, but the row and column tracks created on a parent grid can only be used to position direct children of the grid container…" https://web.dev/css-subgrid/ +03: EVALUATION & TESTING. How to Compare Two Dependent Proportions By Jim Lewis and Jeff Sauro. "…For comparison of dependent proportions, the correct method is the McNemar exact test…" https://measuringu.com/mcnemar-exact-test/ +04: EVENTS. Five Screen Reader Accessibility Tests You Should Always Do with Charlie Pike October 11, 2023. Online https://www.tpgi.com/webinar-october-11-at-12pm-et-five-screen-reader-accessibility-tests-you-should-always-do/ Is Your Website Accessible? Learn What to Look For and Other A11Y Basics October 11, 2023. Online https://www.eventbrite.com/e/is-your-website-accessible-learn-what-to-look-for-and-other-a11y-basics-tickets-720082725817 Web Accessibility Overview October 18, 2023. Online https://accessingenuity.com/blogs/access-ingenuity-webinars/web-accessibility-overview-digital-accessibility-webinar A2Y Conference October 19, 2023. Online https://www.colorado.edu/digital-accessibility/a2y-conference Accessibility Key Performance Indicators with Aaron Farber October 25, 2023. Online https://www.tpgi.com/webinar-october-25-at-12pm-et-accessibility-key-performance-indicators/ A11y Diaries: Evolution of Visible Focus with Fahad Lambaste October 26, 2023. Online https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/webinar-details?id=a0A4z000018z733EAA Testing for Web and Mobile Accessibility Using a Screen Magnifier with Priti Rohra October 31, 2023. Online https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/webinar-details?id=a0A4z000018z73SEAQ Using Chrome's Accessibility Tree for Manual Testing of HTML and ARIA with Russ Weakley November 2, 2023. Online https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/webinar-details?id=a0A4z000018z73XEAQ +05: JAVASCRIPT. Top 5 ARIA Implementation Errors By Priti Rohra. "…I decided to share the Top 5 ARIA Implementation Errors through this blog post…" https://www.barrierbreak.com/top-5-aria-implementation-errors/ ARIA, the Good Parts By Hidde de Vries. Hidde's Paris Web presentation materials. https://talks.hiddedevries.nl/hDiDOG/aria-the-good-parts A JavaScript Testing Journey By Mathias Schäfer. In software development, there are few topics as controversial as test automation"…" https://9elements.com/blog/a-javascript-testing-journey/ +06: MISCELLANEOUS. MAdtech Point: If Advertising Will No Longer Run the Internet, Then What Will Run the Internet? By Gowthaman Ragothaman. "…Amongst all this Worldwide Web Consortium is the most active one that creates standards that enable the open web platform. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which leads development of the technical standards and guidelines to ensure that the web remains open, accessible, and interoperable, officially launched as a public interest non-profit ogranisation as of January 1, 2023. After 28 years of being hosted collectively at MIT and three other international host organizations, W3C as it is called, have become their own entity. Technically, still, no one entity or country owns the internet…" https://www.forbesindia.com/article/storyboard18/madtech-point-if-advertising-will-no-longer-run-the-internet-then-what-will-run-the-internet/88169/1 Robots.txt By Jim Nielsen. "A few weeks ago, I saw a flurry of conversation about how you can now disallow OpenAI from indexing your personal website using robots.txt…" https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/robots-txt/ Crawlers By Jeremy Keith. "A few months back, I wrote about how Google is breaking its social contract with the web, harvesting our content not in order to send search traffic to relevant results, but to feed a large language model that will spew auto-completed sentences instead…" https://adactio.com/journal/20515 +07: NAVIGATION. In-Page Links for Content Navigation By Huei-Hsin Wang. In-page links, often embedded in the table of contents, help users navigate to specific content sections on the same page. While research showed increased user familiarity with the design pattern, carefully consider content structures before implementation. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/in-page-links-content-navigation/ GitHub Now Has a Setting to Underline Links By Eric Bailey. "…the most important takeaway here is that there is now choice where there was none before…" https://ericwbailey.website/published/github-now-has-a-setting-to-underline-links/ +08: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. Introducing the Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSGs) By Łukasz Mastalerz, Tim Frick, and Alexander Dawson. "This page contains a video recording of the (September 2023 TPAC) presentation made during the breakout session, along with a transcript…" https://www.w3.org/2023/09/breakouts/recording-32.html The Myth of Infinite Data Growth By Gerry McGovern. "As our environment comes under more and more pressure from the growth demands of rich humans, more and more recognize that this growth and overconsumption are the core problems we face…" https://gerrymcgovern.com/the-myth-of-infinite-data-growth/ [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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