+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 26, Issue 03, July 15, 2025. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 03 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: USABILITY. 10: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. SECTION TWO: 11: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. From Word Fluff to Real Impact: Achieving Specific, Measurable, and Accountable Accessibility By Kelly Ford. "…The prevailing culture of issuing aspirational statements about accessibility, without the backing of specific, measurable, and accountable actions, is no longer tenable…" https://theideaplace.net/from-word-fluff-to-real-impact-achieving-specific-measurable-and-accountable-accessibility/ When Accessibility Standards Slip, Design Steps Up By Rochelle Ratkaj Moser. "…Designers, creatives, and communicators have the tools, the platforms, and the responsibility to build what the system is abandoning. It's on us. The question is-will we?…" https://www.printmag.com/industry-perspectives/when-accessibility-standards-slip-design-steps-up/ Testing Methods: Identify Input Purpose By Dennis Deacon. "WCAG 1.3.5 Identify Input Purpose is a Level AA conformance level Success Criterion…" https://www.dennisdeacon.com/web/accessibility/testing-methods-identify-input-purpose/ Short Note: WCAG/ARIA - State of Confusion By Steve Faulkner. "…If the value of property cannot be set by the user it is not covered by 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value (Level A). So when a testing tool or some titular authority figure states that a lack of an aria-controls attribute, for example, is a failure of 4.1.2 it is wrong." https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/07/08/short-note-wcag-aria-state-of-confusion/ A11y 101: 2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide By Nat Tarnoff. "…When we talk about 2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide, we are talking about a variety of things. It could be video, animation, marquee, auto-scrolling, carousels, or something else. Any of these items could trigger a reaction that could make them very sick…" https://tarnoff.info/2025/07/14/a11y-101-2-2-2-pause-stop-hide/ WCAG 2.2 and Beyond: Key Updates and Essential Guidelines You Need to Know (Video) By Vaishali Taneja. "In this talk, we'll explore the key updates introduced in WCAG 2.2, focusing on how they enhance accessibility for users with cognitive, mobility, and visual challenges. We'll also revisit some essential guidelines from WCAG 2.0 and 2.1 that continue to play a critical role in inclusive design. Whether you're new to accessibility or looking to stay up to date, this session will provide practical insights to help you create more accessible digital experiences." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQVymoXxMS0 Why I Don't Trust WCAG 2.2 and What I'm Hoping From 3.0 By Daniel Schwarz. "Accessibility is a right - and a legal requirement in many countries. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) set the standard for digital accessibility, and failure to adhere to these guidelines can result in lawsuits, fines, or worse…" https://blog.logrocket.com/ux-design/wcag-3-vs-2-ux/ Managing Focus and Visible Focus Indicators: Practical Accessibility Guidance for the Web By Kirby Tucker. "…In this post, we'll walk through three key WCAG success criteria related to keyboard focus and explain their practical implications to help you manage focus in a way that supports usability, accessibility, and clarity…" https://www.tpgi.com/managing-focus-and-visible-focus-indicators-practical-accessibility-guidance-for-the-web/ Improving Client-side Page Routing for Better Accessibility By Doug Abrams. "Client-side routing can be great for performance, but it also comes with some potential side effects for accessibility…" https://www.tpgi.com/client-side-routing-accessibility/ Can Joe Find Menus in the Menus of Restaurant Sites? (Video) By Joe Dolson and Nathan Wrigley. "…I'm joined, as always, by accessibility expert Joe Dolson, to tackle a thought-provoking question: where are the menus in the menus - have a watch and you'll get it…" https://wpbuilds.com/accessibility/6/ Teaching Accessibility Fundamental Concepts & Skills By Teach Access. "The Teach Access Fundamental Concepts and Skills Framework provides educators with core accessibility topics, goals, and learning objectives to support teaching inclusive design across disciplines…" https://www.teachaccess.org/teaching-accessibility-fundamental-concepts-skills/ 2025 Midyear Accessibility Lawsuit Report: Key Legal Trends By Jason Taylor. "…In this blog, we break down the key trends from the 2025 report to help legal teams, digital leaders, and accessibility decision-makers prepare for what's ahead…" https://blog.usablenet.com/2025-midyear-accessibility-lawsuit-report-key-legal-trends #Accesstive Will Get You Sued By Adrian Roselli. "I can't actually assert the Accesstive overlay will result in a lawsuit, though there is a trend of overlays attracting lawsuits. Attorneys say overlays don't protect from lawsuits, either. Regardless of the company making it, if you wonder if you should use an accessibility overlay, the answer is no. Accesstive's overlay just happens to be the subject of this post…" https://adrianroselli.com/2025/07/accesstive-will-get-you-sued.html #ARTY Could Get You Sued By Adrian Roselli. "I can’t actually assert the ARTY overlay will result in a lawsuit, though there is a trend of overlays attracting lawsuits…" https://adrianroselli.com/2025/07/arty-could-get-you-sued.html +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Multicol and Fragmentation (Video) By Rachel Andrew. "The session begins with a warm introduction of Rachel Andrew, highlighting her ability to simplify complex topics and her contributions to the CSS community. Rachel, now part of Chrome Developer Relations, shares her excitement about speaking to an audience passionate about CSS. She outlines her role and involvement with the CSS Working Group, setting the stage for a talk focused on various CSS features…" https://conffab.com/presentation/multicol-and-fragmentation/ Form Control Styling (Video) By Tim Nguyen. "The session begins with an introduction to Tim, a WebKit engineer at Apple, known for his contributions to features like the dialog element and view transitions in Safari. The speaker sets the stage for Tim's talk on form control styling, highlighting the challenges and opportunities in this area. This introduction provides context for the audience, emphasizing the relevance of form control styling in web development…" https://conffab.com/presentation/form-control-styling/ A Revisit of the Every Layout Sidebar With :has() and Selector Performance By Heydon Pickering. "Heydon takes a fresh look the Every Layout Sidebar layout, 6 years on, to see if modern CSS selectors can improve it…" https://piccalil.li/blog/a-revisit-of-the-every-layout-sidebar-with-has-and-selector-performance/ Get the Index of an Element Within Its Parent By Temani Afif. "With CSS, you can use the new sibling-index() function to get the position of any element relative to all its sibling elements. You can also rely on sibling-count() to get the number of siblings…" https://css-tip.com/element-index/ Dynamic nth-child() Using sibling-index() and if() By Temani Afif. "We can get the index of an element using sibling-index(), and we can express inline conditions using if(). With both features, we can implement :nth-child(An + B)…" https://css-tip.com/nth-child/ +03: EVALUATION & TESTING. Might Not Be a Magic Number but There Are Magic Ranges By Jeff Sauro. "…These graphs and tables make it very clear that there is no 'magic number' for UX research studies. There isn't even one 'magic range.' By considering competing statistical and logistical considerations, we've recommended ranges for three of the most common high-level UX research goals: discovery, estimation, and comparison…" https://measuringu.com/might-not-be-a-magic-number-but-there-are-magic-ranges/ +04: EVENTS. Found an Accessibility Issue? Now What? July 29, 2025. Online https://a11ytalks.com/posts/2025-jul Audio Description: If Your Eyes Could Speak July 31, 2025. Online https://umn.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bBLToxnpQ1-3ddvrMszhsQ#/registration UXPALOOZA 2025 September 19, 2025. Online https://uxpa.org/uxpalooza/ UX Nordic September 24-25, 2025. Copenhagen, Denmark https://www.uxnordic.com/ +05: HTML. Screen Reader HTML Support Tables By Steve Faulkner. "With the addition of Gez Lemon to the editing team, work continues on expanding and improving the HTML and screen reader support information…" https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/07/10/html-support/ A Label and a Name Walk Into a Bar By Steve Faulkner. "When is a label also an (accessible) name, when is it not and when is it neither?…" https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/07/14/a-label-and-a-name-walk-into-a-bar/ What is popover=hint? By Una Kravets. "If you've been following along with advancements in HTML, such as the new popover API, you may have noticed that a new popover type (hint) recently landed in Chrome 133 (January 2025). But what exactly does it do?…" https://una.im/popover-hint/ Influence the State of HTML 2025 Survey! By Lea Verou. "Two years ago, I was funded by Google to design the inaugural State of HTML survey…" https://lea.verou.me/blog/2025/design-state-of-html/ +06: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. Wireflows 101 (Video) By Megan Brown. "Wireflows combine wireframes with flowcharts to help document user interactions. They can aid in team collaboration, developer handoff, and help ensure clear communication for complex interactions…" https://www.nngroup.com/videos/wireflows-101/ +07: JAVASCRIPT. What's New in ECMAScript 2025 By Paweł Grzybek. "Another version of ECMAScript version has been approved by the TC39, and to keep my annual tradition I'm sharing what's new in the ES2025 with simple practical examples…" https://pawelgrzybek.com/whats-new-in-ecmascript-2025/ +08: MISCELLANEOUS. European Tech (Video) By Bruce Lawson. "Bruce talks about the need for European tech sovereignty away from Big Tech, at CSS Day 2025 (excerpt)…" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRYLA8Hohqg +09: USABILITY. Designing Scroll Behavior: When to Save a User's Place By Megan Chan. "Save scroll position when users are likely to compare content in a long static list." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/saving-scroll-position/ UX Maturity Is a Living System, Not a Ladder By Kate Kaplan. "Focus on continuous reflection - not stage-hopping - to grow sustainable, resilient UX practices." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-maturity-living-system/ +10: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. display: green; Applying the Web Sustainability Guidelines By Hidde de Vries. "The session begins with an introduction to Hidde de Vries, highlighting his long-standing involvement in web conferences and his contributions to various working groups, including the CSS Working Group and Web Accessibility. Hidde is recognized for his recent appointment to the W3C advisory board and his blog focused on accessibility. The introduction sets the stage for his talk on best practices from the W3C's new web sustainability guidelines…" https://conffab.com/presentation/display-green-applying-the-web-sustainability-guidelines/?gl=twfrctrXHq77 ChatGPT Has Already Polluted the Internet So Badly That It's Hobbling Future AI Development By Frank Landymore. "Cleaning is going to be prohibitively expensive, probably impossible…" https://futurism.com/chatgpt-polluted-ruined-ai-development [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +11: 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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