+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 22, Issue 41, April 3, 2024. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 41 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: TOOLS. 08: 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. The Complete Guide to Captioned Videos By Meryl Evans. "…This guide will dive into why captioning matters, how it provides a huge ROI, 10 rules for creating great captioned videos, and how to caption your videos…" https://meryl.net/the-complete-guide-to-captioned-videos/ A Complete Guide for Content Creators to Start Making Accessible Content By Whitney Lewis. "Learn how to embed web accessibility into your process using WAVE and accessibility basics…" https://blog.pope.tech/2024/04/01/a-complete-guide-for-content-creators-to-start-making-accessible-content/ No One Actually Wants Accessibility By David A Kennedy. "…If you keep pushing accessibility down in the backlog, then you don't value it…" https://davidakennedy.com/blog/no-one-actually-wants-accessibility/ A Plain Language Guide: How to Write Inclusive Digital Content in 2024 By Peggy McGregor. "Plain language is easier to read than it is to write…" https://evolvingweb.com/blog/plain-language-guide-how-write-inclusive-digital-content-2024 How Screen Readers Read Special Characters: An Update By Sophie Ragas. "Screen readers interpret what is on the screen. They can read most text easily and accurately, but how do they handle special punctuation and characters?…" https://elevenways.be/en/articles/screenreaders-special-characters The WebAIM Million By WebAIM. "…Our 2024 analysis saw a notable increase in the number of detected accessibility errors, though a small decrease in number of pages with WCAG conformance failures. Despite increased errors, there were several positive trends. Pages with fewer errors in the past generally got better, suggesting that increased focus on accessibility is impactful. Also, the prevalence of several error types, such as low contrast text and missing alt text decreased. Some sectors, such as government and education, fare much better than others indicating regulation and supports have a positive impact on accessibility…" https://webaim.org/projects/million/ Latest WebAIM's Million - Some Thoughts By Bogdan Cerovac. "Another WebAIM's Million, this time with different webpages. A tiny improvement, but more complexity at the same time. Can design annotations help preventing some issues that are still rising?…" https://cerovac.com/a11y/2024/03/latest-webaims-million-some-thoughts/ What AI Can Do For (and To) Existing Web Accessibility Tools By Ricky Onsman and Hans Hillen. "This article is based on the first part of a presentation delivered by the author and Hans Hillen at CSUN 2024 Conference. It includes content that was not used in the conference presentation due to time constraints. You can also access all the slides used in the presentation." https://www.tpgi.com/what-ai-can-do-for-and-to-existing-web-accessibility-tools/ Legal Update Double Issue: February-March 2024 By Ken Nakata. "Welcome to our first double-issue Legal Update…" https://convergeaccessibility.com/2024/04/01/legal-update-february-march-2024/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Better Form UX With the CSS Property 'Field-Sizing' By Stephanie Stimac. "One of the more painful experiences I've encountered on the web is filling out a form input that is fixed width. Whatever I've typed becomes cutoff and I can't actually see what I've typed or am typing…" https://blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2024/01/css-field-sizing/ +03: EVALUATION & TESTING. Diary Studies: Understanding Long-Term User Behavior and Experiences By Kim Salazar. "Participants log daily activities as they occur to give contextual insights about real-time user behaviors and needs." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/diary-studies/ +04: EVENTS. Personalize to Prioritize: Strategies to Grow Your A11y Program with Erin Evans April 17, 2024. Online https://a11ytalks.com/posts/2024-APR/ Executive Overview of Accessibility with Karl Groves April 24, 2024. Online https://afixt.com/webinars/executive-overview-of-accessibility/ DrupalCon May 6-7, 2024. Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. https://events.drupal.org/portland2024 Stem to Stern Accessibility with Karl Groves May 16, 2024. Online https://afixt.com/webinars/free-gaad-workshop-stem-to-stern-accessibility/ Open Source North June 5, 2024. St Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A. https://www.opensourcenorth.com/ Web Directions Code June 20-21, 2024. Melbourne, Australia https://webdirections.org/code/ +05: JAVASCRIPT. On Disabled and Aria-Disabled Attributes By Kitty Giraudel. "…Neither the disabled nor the aria-disabled attribute 'optimizes' for anything, let alone 'DX vs UX'. They are both meaningful attributes with their own pros and cons…" https://kittygiraudel.com/2024/03/29/on-disabled-and-aria-disabled-attributes/ Exploring the Power of ARIA Live Attribute in Web Accessibility By Parampreet Singh. "Are you building dynamic web applications without knowing about aria-live attribute? If yes, then you're missing out on the opportunity to inform your screen reader users about the dynamic changes happening on the page…" https://scribe.rip/@askParamSingh/exploring-the-power-of-aria-live-attribute-in-web-accessibility-f80e6d110ed4 +06: MISCELLANEOUS. Working at the Intersection of Race, Disability and Accessibility By Harrington, Desai, Lewis, Moharana, Ross, and Mankoff. "…This paper highlights the value of considering how constructs of race and disability work alongside each other within accessibility research studies, designs of socio-technical systems, and education. Our analysis provides recommendations towards establishing this research direction…" https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3597638.3608389 21MB of data - entry-level phones can't run some simple web pages, and some sites are harder to render than PUBG By Christopher Harper. "Danluu benchmarks numerous websites and discusses their impact on older and/or weaker hardware…" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/modern-web-bloat-means-some-entry-level-phones-cant-run-simple-web-pages-and-load-times-are-high-for-pcs-some-sites-run-worse-than-pubg +07: TOOLS. New Software Enables Blind and Low-Vision Users to Create Interactive, Accessible Charts (Hat Tip to Margraret Menzin) By Adam Zewe. "Screen-reader users can upload a dataset and create customized data representations that combine visualization, textual description, and sonification." https://news.mit.edu/2024/umwelt-enables-interactive-accessible-charts-creation-blind-low-vision-users-0327 +08: USABILITY. How to Use the Zeigarnik Effect in UX (Video) By Feifei Liu. "The Zeigarnik effect suggests that unfinished tasks are more memorable than completed ones. In UX design, we can leverage this effect to encourage user engagement and task completion." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/zeigarnik-effect/ Asking Users for Their Pronouns: A Guide for UX Designers By Chelsea Roden. "Designing a pronoun selector isn't just about ticking a box for inclusivity - it's about respecting your users. This UX guide breaks it down…" https://scribe.rip/asking-users-for-their-pronouns-a-guide-for-ux-designers-4f31736ae808 +09: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. Digital Declutter for Businesses By Wholegrain Digital. "A toolkit that can help you measure and reduce the digital carbon emissions of your business…" https://www.wholegraindigital.com/digitaldeclutter/ Killer App of AI Is Advertising By Gerry McGovern. "…overconsumption fueled by advertising has turned the consuming into a devouring of our environment." https://gerrymcgovern.com/killer-app-of-ai-is-advertising/ Sustainability Trap By Jens Oliver Meiert. "…we can only consume and pollute if we're offered something to consume and pollute. These offers need to change. What we're offered should consume as few resources as possible-and pollute nothing…" https://meiert.com/en/blog/sustainability-trap/ [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +10: 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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