+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 26, Issue 19, November 4, 2025. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 19 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: COLOR. 04: EVALUATION & TESTING. 05: EVENTS. 06: HTML. 07: JAVASCRIPT. 08: MISCELLANEOUS. 09: TOOLS. 10: TYPOGRAPHY. 11: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 12: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. A11y 101: 2.4.5 Multiple Ways By Nat Tarnoff. "In the physical world we understand that not everyone can climb 20 flights of stairs, so under the ADA we created rules to overcome these situations. …" https://tarnoff.info/2025/10/27/a11y-101-2-4-5-multiple-ways/ Video Without Vision (Video) By TabAble. "Video Without Vision shows how to make videos informative and accessible for blind audiences. Each episode supports a different group, from content creators to developers, and draws on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), including its Principles, Guidelines, and Success Criteria…" https://tab-able.co.uk/video-without-vision/ Testing Methods: Keyboard (No Exception) By Dennis Deacon. "WCAG 2.1.3 Keyboard (No Exception) is a Level AAA conformance level Success Criterion. It ensures that all content is operable from the keyboard…" https://www.dennisdeacon.com/web/accessibility/testing-methods-keyboard-no-exception/ Get Started With Manual Testing (Video) By Pope Tech. "In this video, we define what manual testing is, demonstrate four basic manual tests, and show how to incorporate sampling strategies into your accessibility workflow…" https://blog.pope.tech/2025/10/29/manual-testing-webinar/ Actually Shifting Left: Technical Accessibility for Designers (Video) By Sam Hobson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOW8mlNorPY Never Delegate Understanding: Foundations of Digital Accessibility (Video) By Sarah Horton. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcE471Dku4o Creating Accessible Documents and Slides: Microsoft, Google, and Canva (Video) By Terrill Thompson, Gaby de Jongh, and Alaina Foust. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQZQ0ehzgB0 Word and PowerPoint Alt Text Roundup By Jonathan Whiting. "We tested the alternative text of everything that we could think of in Word and PowerPoint and then converted these files to PDFs using Adobe's Acrobat PDFMaker (the Acrobat Tab on Windows), Adobe's Create PDF cloud service (the Acrobat tab on Mac), and Microsoft's built-in PDF exporting feature (save as PDF). With over 100 test cases tested first in in Word and PowerPoint and then in three different PDFs (over 400 checks), here are the main takeaways…" https://webaim.org/blog/word-and-powerpoint-alt-text-roundup/ ULEARN Accessibility Guide By Cidi Labs. "The ULEARN Accessibility Guide is a companion to our Accessibility Assistant, UDOIT Advantage. It highlights each issue UDOIT can detect, explains how these issues affect students, and provides guidance on how to fix them. By focusing on accessibility and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, the guide supports the creation of more inclusive and effective learning environments…" https://cidilabs.instructure.com/courses/12453 AI and Alt Text (Video) By Ted Drake and Marco Salsiccia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9J3LIgq8Q4 AI Prompts For Web Accessibility Testing By Ran Ronen. "…Here are seven common high-impact accessibility issues often flagged in audits and lawsuits, along with AI prompts and practical guidance you can use to resolve them…" https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/2025/10/31/ai-prompts-for-web-accessibility-testing/ Better Accessibility Context for Your Artificial Intelligence Agents - Help Them Help You By Bogdan Cerovac. "Model Context Protocol (MCP) is not perfect, but it is a good start - as it can provide reality for Artificial Intelligence (AI). Less hallucinations help with inclusion…" https://cerovac.com/a11y/2025/10/better-accessibility-context-for-your-artificial-intelligence-agents-help-them-help-you/ Understanding Burnout in Accessibility Work (Video) By Annie Ross. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppkuweHxUHc DOJ To Re-Examine All ADA Title II and III Regulations on a "TBD" Timetable By Seyfarth Shaw. "DOJ's regulatory agenda includes intent to conduct economic impact reviews of Title II and III 2010 regulations and re-examine the Title II website accessibility regulations…" https://www.adatitleiii.com/2025/10/doj-to-re-examine-all-ada-title-ii-and-iii-regulations-on-a-tbd-timetable/ Federal Pro Se ADA Title III and FHA Lawsuit Numbers Surge, Likely Powered by AI By Seyfarth Shaw. "Pro se plaintiffs are filing more ADA Title III and FHA complaints using AI tools that enable harassing litigation tactics…" https://www.adatitleiii.com/2025/10/federal-pro-se-ada-title-iii-and-fha-lawsuit-numbers-surge-likely-powered-by-ai/ Legal Update: October 2025 By Ken Nakata. "In earlier posts, we've discussed the Southern District's wavering interpretations regarding whether online-only companies are places of public accommodation and can be sued for maintaining inaccessible websites…" https://convergeaccessibility.com/2025/10/27/legal-update-october-2025/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. The Entire "Principles" Module of Complete CSS is Now Free By Andy Bell. "…You can learn about communication, feedback, pacing your work, letting the browser work hard for you, fluid typography and space, layout, organising CSS code and progressive enhancement…" https://piccalil.li/links/the-entire-principles-module-of-complete-css-is-now-free Parenthetical Asidenotes By Eric A. Meyer. "It's not really a secret I have a thing for sidenotes, and thus for CSS anchored positioning…" https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/10/28/parenthetical-asidenotes/ +03: COLOR. Grayscale Testing: The Missing Step in Color Accessibility By Elle Smith. "…even when you pass contrast tests, your design might lose its message. This is where a quick grayscale test can reveal weak spots…" https://blog.pope.tech/2025/11/03/grayscale-testing/ Two Tools for Testing Use of Color (Videos) By Whitney Lewis. "An important color accessibility requirement is that your designs make sense without color. That means they shouldn't rely on only color to communicate information…" https://blog.pope.tech/2025/11/03/use-of-color-tools-videos/ +04: EVALUATION & TESTING. Practicing Accessibility Research with Confidence (Video) By Kavana Ramesh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy-lQjkUlsw Win with Metrics: How to Track and Show the Value of Your Program (Video) By Jaunita Flessas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKft6dIG5qM Scatterplot Jitter-Why and How? By Jim Lewis and Jeff Sauro. "Scatterplots are powerful tools for visualizing data, especially when data is continuous and unbounded (or nearly so)…" https://measuringu.com/scatterplot-jitter/ +05: EVENTS. Title II Video Accessibility Compliance 101: What You Need to Know November 12, 2025. Online https://go.3playmedia.com/wbnr-11-12-2025-video-accessibility-compliance-101 How Colleges Can Comply With Web-Accessibility Laws November 19, 2025. Online https://www.chronicle.com/events/virtual/how-colleges-can-comply-with-web-accessibility-laws WCAG 3.0 - Status and Review with Rachael Bradley Montgomery November 20, 2026. Online https://knowbility.org/programs/be-a-digital-ally/november-2025 Virtual UX Training January 20-January 29, 2026. Online https://www.nngroup.com/training/january/ W3C Workshop on Smart Voice Agents Online February 25-27, 2026. https://www.w3.org/2025/10/smartagents-workshop/ +06: HTML. ChatGPT Sez Build With Semantics First By Steve Faulkner. "I turned to ChatGPT and asked a question: Question: what is the HTML coding advice for developers who want to ensure that it works with the openai Atlas browser? Its response…" https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/10/28/chatgpt-sez-build-with-semantics-first/ Just Use a Button By Chris Ferdinandi. "One of the weirdest 'debates' I seem to perpetually have with framework-enthusiastic developers is whether or not a
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