+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 25, Issue 51, June 17, 2025. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 51 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: EVENTS. 04: JAVASCRIPT. 05: MISCELLANEOUS. 06: USABILITY. 07: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. SECTION TWO: 08: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. No Barriers, Just Bar Charts: Chart Accessibility Made Easy (Video) By Funka. "In this bite-sized webinar, we showed how to make your charts clearer, smarter, and more accessible for everyone, including users with visual or cognitive disabilities. You get practical tips on readability, contrast, legends, colours, and layout – all based on real user testing, audits, and accessibility standard…" https://stiftelsenfunka.org/whats-up/archive/free-friday-webinars/#chart-accessibility Getting Started With Manual Testing Webinar (Video) By Pope Tech. Pope Tech's Getting Started with Manual Testing Webinar recording is now available on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mouix6bDER0 Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1N1nR8RxrNHy2Rl8WCNujl1tmvdpU-zreMTcUIYJc8pk/ Testing Methods: Info and Relationships By Dennis Deacon. "WCAG 1.3.1 Info and Relationships is a Level A conformance level Success Criterion. It requires that information, structure, and relationships presented through content and user interface elements must also be clear through text or programmatic means…" https://www.dennisdeacon.com/web/accessibility/testing-methods-info-and-relationships/ A11y 101: 2.1.2 No Keyboard Trap By Nat Tarnof. "Let's talk about what a trap is, some examples, and ways to prevent them…" https://tarnoff.info/2025/06/16/a11y-101-2-1-2-no-keyboard-trap/ Accname Unclarified By Steve Faulkner. "It is unclear to web developers, browser developers and assistive tech developers when an accessible name provided via aria-label/aria-labelledby should replace the child content as the accessible name or be announced in addition to subtree content. This results in bugs and frustration for anyone that this issue touches…" https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/06/12/accname-unclarified/ Accessibility Terms Every Content Creator Should Know By Josh Crawford. "…This practical glossary breaks down essential accessibility terms helping you understand what these concepts mean for your daily content creation work and communicate more confidently with designers, developers, and stakeholders…" https://www.digitalaccesstraining.com/pages/articles?p=accessibility-terms-every-content-creator-should-know Accessible Rickrolling By Heydon Pickering. "…The above code is misleading. The label is not descriptive of the topic or purpose. It's also accessible. It's accessible because different users are treated the same. They share equal access to the experience of being rickrolled. They may not want this experience and they may not like it, but their abilities-or disabilities-do not determine whether they have it…" https://heydonworks.com/article/accessible-rick-rolling/ Liquid Glass: Apple, You Know Better By Nat Tarnoff. "Yesterday Apple unveiled their new design system, Liquid Glass…" https://tarnoff.info/2025/06/11/liquid-glass-apple-you-know-better/ Apple's "Liquid Glass" Contrast Hilarity… By Adrian Roselli. "is now a bullet on my post 'I Don't Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did'…" https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/114660149859569581 Accessibility Statements: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly By Sheri Byrne-Haber. "Let's start with the basic premise that not all accessibility statements are created equally…" https://buttondown.com/access-ability/archive/accessibility-statements-the-good-the-bad-and-the/ Mission Impossible - Accessibility Job Roles By Craig Abbott. "In this post, I'll break down a real job advert and point out the things that concern me, in the hope it will help you to avoid taking on an accessibility role which is an impossible task, and likely detrimental to your health…" https://www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/mission-impossible-accessibility-job-roles/ Navigating the Intersection of Accessibility and Measurement Integrity in eCOA By Paul O'Donohoe and Florence Mowlem. "To truly achieve inclusivity and patient centricity, overcoming legacy concerns about data comparability is key to embracing accessibility standards in electronic clinical outcome assessment." https://www.appliedclinicaltrialsonline.com/view/navigating-the-intersection-of-accessibility-and-measurement-integrity-in-ecoa +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. New Session of the W3Cx Course on CSS Basics By W3C. "W3C opens today a new session of its CSS Basics course on W3Cx, where you can learn how to take your web pages from bland to bold with the power of CSS styling…" https://www.w3.org/news/2025/new-session-of-the-w3cx-course-on-css-basics/ +03: EVENTS. Maybe AAA is Not So Bad? June 23, 2025 San Francisco, California, U.S.A https://www.meetup.com/a11ybay/events/308314195/ Pieces of an Accessibility Audit: Semantics, Design Patterns, and Attributes; Oh My! June 26, 2025. Online https://www.tpgi.com/webinar-pieces-of-an-accessibility-audit-semantics-design-patterns-and-attributes-oh-my/ Navigating Accessibility: Understanding Canadian Regulations and Building an Inclusive Organization with Robert Carr June 26, 2025. Tokyo, Japan https://www.meetup.com/a11ytokyo/events/307765573/ Serving All Customers: Accessible Support Services and the European Accessibility Act (Funka) June 27, 2025. Online https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NDF0CBOUToWcV1KXhMHdIg#/registration UXVirtual Training September 6-19, 2025. Online https://www.nngroup.com/training/september/ Open Source Accessibility Summit October 12, 2025. Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A https://2025.allthingsopen.org/open-source-accessibility-summit +04: JAVASCRIPT. aria-selected: Practical Examples and Use Cases By Florian Schroiff. "Unlock the power of aria-selected with practical examples and best practices. Learn when and how to use it and boost your web accessibility skills." https://www.a11y-collective.com/blog/aria-selected/ Avoid Event Listeners on the Window Object By Nat Tarnoff. "…This change removes the problem of repeating 'clickable' audio clutter. And it should improve performance." https://tarnoff.info/2025/06/13/quick-tip-avoid-event-listeners-on-the-window-object/ DPUB-ARIA and DPUB-AAM are Now Web Standards (W3C Recommendations) By Tamsin Ewing. "Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.1 (DPUB-ARIA) and Digital Publishing Accessibility API Mappings 1.1 (DPUB-AAM) have been published as web standards (W3C Recommendations).…" https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-announce/2025AprJun/0006.html +05: MISCELLANEOUS. Speed, Cost, Quality, Choose 2 = Pragmatism, Passion, or Perfectionism By Jens Oliver Meiert. "…In this brief post, I'll refer to the version of selecting two of speed, cost, and quality, to achieve a given outcome…" https://meiert.com/blog/pragmatism-passion-or-perfectionism/ Advanced AI Suffers 'Complete Accuracy Collapse' in Face of Complex Problems, Study Finds By Betsy Reed. "'Pretty devastating' Apple paper raises doubts about race to reach stage of AI at which it matches human intelligence…" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/09/apple-artificial-intelligence-ai-study-collapse +06: USABILITY. I Just Want to Click the Button By Elaina Natario. "…Shoehorning in overlays or extra steps won't always force folks to use the nicely paved sidewalk you put in place. Your product - the web really - is just a series of desire paths. Understanding those paths (read: talking to users), is critical to designing an experience that is based in reality, not just product objectives…" https://thoughtbot.com/blog/i-just-want-to-click-the-button Liquid Glass By Hardik Pandya. "…Liquid Glass feels like a solution in search of a problem. It adds visual sophistication without adding functional value. It creates aesthetic unity at the expense of interaction clarity…" https://hvpandya.com/liquid-glass Grids 101 (Video) By Kelley Gordon. "Page grids use columns, gutters, and margins to structure content - boosting layout consistency, readability, and visual flow." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/grids-101/ The User Experience of Meeting Software (2025) By Jim Lewis and Jeff Sauro. "…In this article, we present some key findings from our 2025 investigation of the UX of meeting software…" https://measuringu.com/meeting-software-ux-2025/ +07: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. Open Source Carbon Footprints (Podcast) By Chris Adams. "Chris Adams is joined by Thibaud Colas; product lead at Torchbox, president of the Django Software Foundation, and lead on Wagtail CMS. They explore the role of open source projects in tackling digital carbon emissions and discuss Wagtail's pioneering carbon footprint reporting, sustainable default settings, and grid-aware website features, all enabled through initiatives like Google Summer of Code. Thibaud shares how transparency, contributor motivation, and clear governance can drive impactful sustainability efforts in web development, and why measuring and reducing emissions in the Python ecosystem matters now more than ever…" https://podcasts.castplus.fm/e/pnm526kn-open-source-carbon-footprints [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +08: 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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