+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 26, Issue 16, October 14, 2025. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 16 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: 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. Guide to the Inclusive Design Principles By Henny Swan. "…In this post, we'll look at who the principles are for, what they can be applied to, how they help people, and how you can integrate them into your own practices.In this post, we'll look at who the principles are for, what they can be applied to, how they help people, and how you can integrate them into your own practices…" https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/10/07/guide-to-the-inclusive-design-principles/ Designing for Dyslexia: Accessibility Requirements and Best Practices By Sheri Byrne-Haber. "…Designing for dyslexia is about reducing reading effort and creating flexibility…" https://buttondown.com/access-ability/archive/designing-for-dyslexia-accessibility-requirements/ Designing Accessible Instructional Videos: The Role of Audio Description By University of Minnesota. "When creating instructional videos for your courses, accessibility should be a central consideration. …" https://umn-extra-points.blogspot.com/2025/10/designing-accessible-instructional.html Accessible Time Format By Andrew Normand. "…Hours and minutes should be formatted on the web using a colon (hh:mm)…" https://ozewai.org/blog/newsletter/accessible-time-format Tables: Beyond Rows and Columns By Akash Shukla. "There are many semantic HTML tags covered under WCAG SC 1.3.1: Info and Relationships, but in this article, we'll zoom in on one of the most misunderstood, the table…" https://www.tpgi.com/tables-beyond-rows-and-columns/ Accessible Form Validation With Examples and Code By Elle Smith. "…Forms are how your users sign up for events, subscribe to a newsletter, make a purchase, or request more information. All critical interactions for an organization. When something goes wrong, and users can't complete a form, that's where error messages come in…" https://blog.pope.tech/2025/09/30/accessible-form-validation-with-examples-and-code/ How to Test Your Form for Accessibility Issues With the WAVE Extension By Pope Tech. "Learn the different WAVE results you could get when testing a form for accessibility with WAVE and how to fix them…" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03U9qYLIyi0 Testing Methods: Text Spacing By Dennis Deacon. "…The requirement is to ensure that when a user overrides the authored text spacing, content or functionality is not lost…" https://www.dennisdeacon.com/web/accessibility/testing-methods-text-spacing/ Testing Methods: Content on Hover or Focus By Dennis Deacon. "…No single approach for testing 1.4.13 Content on Hover or Focus is perfect. However, using the strengths of each approach in combination can have a positive effect…" https://www.dennisdeacon.com/web/accessibility/testing-methods-content-on-hover-or-focus/ Accessibility Audits: Because Everyone Deserves to Stay in Focus By Equal Entry. "This post explains why accessibility audits are essential for websites and digital content…" https://equalentry.com/accessibility-audits-focus-reflow/ "Straight to the Pool Room": The Risks and Pitfalls of Placing Accessibility Issues in the Backlog By Charlii Parker. "…In this article, we'll explore why digital accessibility issues should not be relegated to the backlog and the pitfalls of doing so…" https://intopia.digital/articles/straight-to-the-pool-room-the-pitfalls-of-placing-accessibility-issues-in-the-backlog/ Crafting an All-Inclusive Narrative (Video) By Denis Boudreau. Denis' Web Accessibility In Mind Conference presentation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc6nMMiUm68 The Architecture of Anxiety and Shame, Part One By Todd Libby. "In the work and research I have done for a number of years now, I have found that the choices we make as developers, technologists, organizations and companies, founders and CEOs has come down to compromising humanity…" https://toddl.dev/posts/the-architecture-of-anxiety-and-shame-part-one/ Digital Innovation, Emerging Technology and Accessibility With Léonie Watson By Jo Morrison. "…we interviewed Léonie Watson, co-founder and Director of accessibility consultancy TetraLogical, who shared how digital innovations are reshaping accessibility, where the risks lie, and what it will take to ensure innovation is both inclusive and sustainable…" https://calvium.com/leonie-watson/ 5.15 Million Dollar Settlement in California Web Accessibility Class Action By Lainey Feingold. "Fashion Nova website barriers spark lawsuit that should have settled…" https://www.lflegal.com/2025/10/fashion-nova-settlement/ Stop Inviting Overlay Employees & Bad Actors Into Accessibility Spaces By Chris Yoong. "It hands them blueprints for exploitation, legitimacy and control…" https://chrisyoong.com/blog/inviting-harmful-actors-into-genuine-accessibility-spaces-is-dangerous +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Simplify By Jeremy Keith. "…it's ludicrously straightforward. Just stick this bit of CSS on the containing element inside a media query (or better yet, a container query): display: flex; overflow-x: auto…" https://adactio.com/journal/22178 How Much Do You Really Know About Media Queries? By Daniel Schwarz. "Earlier this year, I realized that I knew very little about possibly most of the media queries…" https://frontendmasters.com/blog/learn-media-queries/ [Web Development for Beginners] CSS: Learn the Essentials Quickly By Axel Rauschmayer. "…In the previous chapter, we used HTML to create unformatted content. In this chapter, we use CSS to configure the style of that content: We can change the color of the background, use various fonts, add vertical spacing, etc…" https://2ality.com/2025/10/css-basics.html +03: EVALUATION & TESTING. Stop Misrecruits: Add Foils to Your Screener By Rachel Banawa. "Foils are fake (but plausible) options in screeners that catch inattentive or dishonest participants, protecting data quality and saving time." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/screener-foils/ +04: EVENTS. Tools and Techniques of a Blind Accessibility Auditor with Jeanine Lineback October 16, 2025. Online https://knowbility.org/programs/be-a-digital-ally/october-2025 Accessibility Basics with Gian Wild October 21, 2025 at 11am Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT). Online https://events.humanitix.com/accessibility-basics WCAG 2.1 and WCAG 2.2 Additions with Gian Wild October 22, 2025 at 11am Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT). Online https://events.humanitix.com/wcag2122 Results From Latest EN301549 Requirements Beyond WCAG-Workshop with Detlev Fischer, Malin Hammarberg, Peter Kemeny, and Wilco Fiers October 23, 2025. Online. https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dC5Z_Iq2QAG8k4tzHuvr4A History of Accessibility with Gian Wild October 28, 2025 at 11am Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT). Online https://events.humanitix.com/history-a11y Continuous Al for Accessibility: Build Better, Faster, Inclusive Software with GitHub with Carie Fisher & Helen Hou-Sandi October 29, 2025. Online. https://a11ytalks.com/posts/2025-oct Part 3: Web Accessibility Basics - Manual Mobile Testing November 12, 2025. Online https://accessingenuity.com/pages/webinar/part-3-web-accessibility-basics-manual-mobile-testing-digital-accessibility-webinar +05: HTML. HTML - The Most Difficult Programming Language in the World By Jens Oliver Meiert. "…If you're a professional who puts HTML on your resume: Ship valid HTML. This is the minimum to be expected of our work, even when our manager or our client doesn't ask for it. It's not that hard." https://meiert.com/blog/the-most-difficult-programming-language/ +06: USABILITY. Inattentional Blindness in Interfaces (Video) By Megan Chan. "Inattentional blindness is a phenomenon where we miss something that's in plain sight because our attention is focused elsewhere." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWJZowq-V4o Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26 By Raluca Budiu. "iOS 26's visual language obscures content instead of letting it take the spotlight. New (but not always better) design patterns replace established conventions." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/liquid-glass/ Apple's Liquid Glass Design Prioritizes Content Over Tools By Adam Engst. "…there's an important point to make here: controls are not tools. Controls allow you to adjust settings-change channels, select colors, pause playback, and more. Tools enable you to create, modify, delete, or give a performance. It's the difference between a volume knob and a violin…function must dictate form, not the other way around…I would urge developers of productivity apps-of real tools-to think long and hard about how to keep their interfaces discoverable, accessible, and readable." https://talk.tidbits.com/t/apple-s-liquid-glass-design-prioritizes-content-over-tools/32080 Human Oversight of Automated Decision-Making (PDF) By TechDispatch. "…This TechDispatch explains what ADM is and critically examines common assumptions underlying human oversight of ADM systems, revealing why many such beliefs are unsupported and in practice do not improve the quality of the decisions taken by the system. These misconceptions risk fostering a false sense of security, potentially allowing flawed algorithms to operate unchecked under the veneer of human control…" https://www.edps.europa.eu/system/files/2025-09/25-09-15_techdispatch-human-oversight_en.pdf +07: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. RGESN Statements: The Clash of Words, the Weight of Measures By Laurent Devernay. "…For this article, we measured the home pages of websites with an RGESN declaration based on the latest version of the standard. No clear correlation emerged between the measurement results and the reported progress scores…" https://greenspector.com/en/rgesn-statements-the-clash-of-words-the-weight-of-measures/ [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. WEB DESIGN UPDATE is available by subscription. For information on how to subscribe and unsubscribe please visit: https://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/webdev_listserv.html The Web Design Reference Site also has a RSS 2.0 feed for site updates. + TEXT EMAIL NEWSLETTER (TEN). As a navigation aid for screen readers we do our best to conform to the accessible Text Email Newsletter (TEN) guidelines. Please let me know if there is anything else we can do to make navigation easier. For TEN guideline information please visit: http://www.headstar.com/ten + SIGN OFF. Until next time, Laura L. Carlson Information Technology Systems and Services University of Minnesota Duluth Duluth, MN U.S.A. 55812-3009 mailto:lcarlson@d.umn.edu [Issue ends.]