+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 22, Issue 28, January 2, 2024. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 28 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: BOOKS. 03: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. 04: EVENTS. 05: MISCELLANEOUS. 06: TOOLS. 10: NAVIGATION. 11: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 12: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. WCAG 2: Guidelines and Guardrails By Eric Eggert. @yatil@yatil.social "The name 'Web Content Accessibility Guidelines' (WCAG) has always been a source of misunderstanding and contention. 'Guidelines' implies that this document only guides you, gives you hints on how to make web content accessible. But that is only half of WCAG. The other half are 'Guardrails' that prevent you from producing wholly inaccessible material…" https://yatil.net/blog/wcag-2-guidelines-and-guardrails WCAG 2.1 Developer Tips: Character Key Shortcuts and Label in Name By Kim Wee. "This is a 'quick dive' into two WCAG 2.1 success criteria - 2.1.4 Character Key Shortcuts and 2.5.3 Label in Name. The article is aimed at experienced developers who already have some familiarity with digital accessibility…" https://mn.gov/mnit/media/blog/?id=38-604881 2.5.8: Adversarial Conformance By Adrian Roselli. "I made a demo for WCAG 2.2 Success Criterion 2.5.8 Target Size (Minimum) AA and have embedded it further down the page. Unfortunately it is going to be annoying for you, dear reader, as it steals focus…" https://adrianroselli.com/2023/12/2-5-8-adversarial-conformance.html Experience Lab By Minnesota Office of Accessibility. "What is the Experience Lab? It's a chance to gain a new perspective by experiencing how people with disabilities use digital technology…" https://mn.gov/mnit/about-mnit/accessibility/training/experience-lab/ Screen Reader Users and the Tab Key By Martin Underhill. "Screen reader users who use a laptop or desktop computer generally (though not always) use their keyboard to control their screen reader software. But that doesn't mean they use the keyboard like a keyboard-only user…" https://www.tempertemper.net/blog/screen-reader-users-and-the-tab-key Don't Fake Accessibility When Developing Native Mobile Applications By Bogdan Cerovac. "Sometimes developers have good intentions and want to make their products more accessible, but can fake accessibility and make things even worse…" https://cerovac.com/a11y/2023/12/dont-fake-accessibility-when-developing-native-mobile-applications/ The Ultimate Mobile Accessibility Resource Guide By Mark Steadman. "…resources and knowledge are all scattered across multiple different sites and experts. It can be hard to know where to start to look. It is time to fix that, with the ultimate mobile accessibility resource guide…" https://dev.to/steady5063/the-ultimate-mobile-accessibility-resource-guide-53gh Level Access Crosses the Line; Buys Accessibility Overlay Company By Eric Eggert. "In a stunning press release, Level Access has revealed that it plans to buy accessibility overlay company UserWay for about $99 Million…" https://yatil.net/blog/level-access-userway Level Access Buys UserWay: 31 December 2023 By Adrian Roselli. "…When you consider how this rewards and elevates a long history of misrepesentation, I think this is a terrible signal to the industry. I hope I am wrong…" https://adrianroselli.com/2021/09/userway-will-get-you-sued.html#LevelAccessBuysUserWay The Many Pitfalls of Accessibility Overlays By Level Access. (November 27, 2020) "…Marketed as a 'quick fix', vendors promise accessibility overlays will instantly make all necessary repairs on your website and help your WCAG conformance problems disappear in seconds - all at a fraction of the cost of other accessibility solutions. It almost sounds too good to be true - and that's because it is…" https://www.levelaccess.com/blog/the-many-pitfalls-of-accessibility-overlays/ 6 Reasons Why Accessibility is Maintained, Not Attained By Bet Hannon. "…As tempting as it is to think about web accessibility as 'once and done' or only addressed in the development of the site, it's a dynamic aspect of website development that requires continuous attention and commitment…" https://accessicart.com/6-reasons-why-accessibility-is-maintained-not-attained/ Decoding Digital Accessibility Lawsuits 2023: Key Trends & Insights By Jason Taylor. "Our team has tracked the numbers in the US digital accessibility lawsuit space throughout 2023…" https://blog.usablenet.com/decoding-digital-accessibility-lawsuits-in-2023-key-trends-strategic-insights +02: BOOKS. * Meyer, Eric. A. and Weyl, Estelle., Cascading Style Sheets : The Definitive Guide, O'Reilly & Associates, 2023. +03: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Container Style Queries By Manuel Matuzović. "Exploring new ways of approaching CSS by querying custom properties and their values…" https://12daysofweb.dev/2023/container-style-queries/ "Inheriting" Grid Dimensions From Siblings With Subgrid By Lene Saile. "Subgrids use the grid tracks of an ancestor grid to align their grid items…" https://www.lenesaile.com/en/blog/inheriting-grid-dimensions-from-siblings-with-subgrid/ Every Container Queries Demo is a Card By Chris Coyier. "If you're learning about container queries (anywhere), the chances are high that you're going to come across demos that use a 'card' element…" https://chriscoyier.net/2023/12/27/every-container-queries-demo-is-a-card/ +04: EVENTS. How to Write Accessible Website Copy January 4, 2024 Online https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5017023092862/WN_8V1R2YaySKqRFpNR-gjeUA#/registration UX360 Research Summit January 30-31, 2024. Online https://www.virtual.ux360summit.com/ Convey UX 2024 February 27-29, 2024. Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. https://conveyux.com/ WomenTech Global Conference 2024 April 23-25, 2024. Online https://www.womentech.net/en-us/women-tech-conference Scalable CSS Masterclass with Andy Bell May 9-23, 2024. Online https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops/workshops/scalable-css-andy-bell/ +05: MISCELLANEOUS. Taking Back the Web with Decentralization: 2023 in Review By Ross Schulman and Rory Mir. "When a system becomes too tightly-controlled and centralized, the people being squeezed tend to push back to reclaim their lost autonomy. The internet is no exception…" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/taking-back-web-decentralization-2023-review +06: TOOLS. Alt Text Decide-O-Matic By David O'Brien. "This decision tree will help you understand how best to include text alternatives for image-based content…" https://design.scotentblog.co.uk/toolbox/alt-text-decide-o-matic/ Build Your robots.txt By Dark Visitors. "Maintaining a robots.txt file will help protect your website from unwanted AI agent access. The Dark Visitors list is continuously updated so you can control the behavior of all known AI agents. Sign up to get notified when new AI agents are added…" https://darkvisitors.com/robots-txt-builder +11: USABILITY. Make Dot Voting Better (Video) By Kate Kaplan. "Think beyond the dot in your next UX workshop! Variations of dot voting such as heat mapping and dot coding add context and facilitate deeper discussion during UX prioritization activities." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/better-dot-voting/ Agile Anti-Patterns That Can Harm UX - Part 1 By Neil Turner. "…In this 2-part series I will run through the 10 most common Agile anti-patterns that can really harm UX. For each I'll outline what the anti-pattern is and more importantly how you can avoid it. Let's start with Agile's aversion to upfront design…" https://www.uxforthemasses.com/agile-anti-patterns-part-1/ [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +12: 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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