[webdev] Web Design Update: October 10, 2018
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David Dillard
[webdev] Web Design Update: October 10, 2018
+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 17, Issue 16, October 10, 2018. 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? http://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: MISCELLANEOUS. 07: NAVIGATION. 08: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 09: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. Exploring WCAG 2.1 - 2.5.6 Concurrent Input Mechanisms By Becky Gibson. "You made it! This is the last in our series on the new WCAG 2.1 Success Criteria. We finish with the last level AAA success criterion, 2.5.6 Concurrent Input Mechanisms. It is under guideline 2.5, Input Modalities…" https://knowbility.org/blog/2018/WCAG21-256ConcurrentInputMechanisms/ Technica11y - October 2018 - Nicolas Steenhout (Video) By Karl Groves. "Nicolas Steenhout, host of A11y Rules, a podcast about web accessibility, discusses how he made his podcast and its accompanying website more accessible…" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFlb0wpXm0s Web Accessibility for Cognitive, Learning and Neurological Impairment By Andreea Popescu. "Web accessibility for those kinds of users who have cognitive, learning and neurological is more complex than one for other disabilities because it's not just focused on those, requiring alike elements from other impairment…" https://uxdesign.cc/web-accessibility-for-cognitive-learning-and-neurological-impairment-194dc96e6d89 Google Slides Offers Real-Time Automated Captions By Deborah Edwards-Onoro. "Imagine you're attending a presentation where the speaker's words are automatically captioned in real-time on presentation slides…" https://www.lireo.com/google-slides-offers-real-time-automated-captions/ GW Pushes First Federal Deadline to Improve Online Accessibility By Leah Potter. "The education department pushed back GW's (George Washington University's)first federal deadline to ensure all new online content is accessible for individuals with disabilities." https://www.gwhatchet.com/2018/10/04/gw-pushes-first-federal-deadline-to-improve-online-accessibility/ DOJ Finally Chimes In On State of the Website Accessibility Legal Landscape - But Did Anything Really Change? By Joshua A. Stein. "As those of you who have followed my thoughts on the state of the website accessibility legal landscape over the years are well aware, businesses in all industries continue to face an onslaught of demand letters and state and federal court lawsuits (often on multiple occasions, at times in the same jurisdiction) based on the concept that a business' website is inaccessible to individuals with disabilities…" https://www.retaillaborandemploymentlaw.com/announcements/doj-finally-chimes-in-on-state-of-the-website-accessibility-legal-landscape-but-did-anything-really-change/ Florida Court Dismisses Website Accessibility Case, Clarifying 'Nexus' Requirement For Stating A Claim Under The ADA By John W. Egan & Marlin Duro. "Florida court rules that plaintiff must allege more than being unable to learn about a brick-and-mortar business to state a claim that an allegedly inaccessible website violates the ADA…" https://www.adatitleiii.com/2018/10/florida-court-dismisses-website-accessibility-case-clarifying-nexus-requirement-for-stating-a-claim-under-the-ada/ Price v. Everglades College, Inc. By United States District Court, Florida, Orlando Division. https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20180717789 ADA Website Cases Continue to Befuddle Businesses By Dori K. Stibolt. "Here is the Southern District of Florida, this past year has been filled with a monumental increase in Americans with Disabilities Act ('ADA') Title III cases focused on businesses' web sites…" https://southfloridatrial.foxrothschild.com/ada-title-iii/ada-website-cases-continue-to-befuddle-businesses/ DOJ Takes Flexible Position on Website Accessibility Requirements By Ballard Spahr. "…The DOJ noted that for more than 20 years, the DOJ has interpreted the ADA to apply to websites of places of public accommodation. The DOJ's response also clarified that the absence of a specific regulation does not mean that websites are not subject to the ADA's accessibility requirements…" https://www.natlawreview.com/article/doj-takes-flexible-position-website-accessibility-requirements TD Ameritrade to Settle Blind Woman's Website Accessibility Lawsuit By Jed Horowitz. "TD Ameritrade Inc. and a blind customer who claimed she could not access key pages of the broker-dealer's website in an alleged violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act have reached an agreement in principle to settle her discrimination lawsuit…" https://advisorhub.com/td-ameritrade-to-settle-blind-womans-website-accessibility-lawsuit/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Unbuttoning Buttons By Scott O'Hara. "…let's talk about styling the button element…" https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2018/10/03/unbutton-buttons.html Unbuttoning Buttons By Chris Coyier. "…I think the solution offered to use a <span role="button" tabindex="0" onClick="..."> is a little bizarre since you need bring your own keyboard handling with is non-trivial and requires JavaScript. But there are a couple of interesting other CSS explorations, neither of which stacked up for different reasons…" https://css-tricks.com/unbuttoning-buttons/ An nth-letter Selector in CSS By Jeremy Keith. "Variable fonts are a very exciting and powerful new addition to the toolbox of web design. They was very much at the centre of discussion at this year's Ampersand conference…" https://adactio.com/journal/14408 Use Cases For Flexbox By Rachel Andrew. "In this final article of the series, we wrap up by taking a look at some of the common uses for Flexbox. What should we use Flexbox for, and what it is not so good at?…" https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/10/flexbox-use-cases/ One Invalid Pseudo Selector Equals an Entire Ignored Selector By Chris Coyier. "Perhaps you know this one: if any part of a selector is invalid, it invalidates the whole selector. For example…" https://css-tricks.com/one-invalid-pseudo-selector-equals-an-entire-ignored-selector/ CSS Debugging and Optimization: Code-Quality Tools By Tiffany Brown. "…In this article, we'll discuss tools that help you analyze the quality of your CSS. We'll focus on two…" https://www.sitepoint.com/css-debugging-and-optimization-code-quality-tools/ The Way We Talk About CSS By Rachel Andrew. "…One of the things I've been thinking about is how we have typically thought about CSS, and how that should be changing given where the language is now…" https://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2018/10/04/the-way-we-talk-about-css/ +03: EVALUATION & TESTING. User Interviews: How, When, and Why to Conduct Them By Kara Pernice. "User interviews have become a popular technique for getting user feedback, mainly because they are fast and easy. Use them to learn about users' perceptions of your design, not about its usability." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/user-interviews/ Contextual Inquiry: Leave Your Office to Find Design Ideas (Video) By Garrett Goldfield. "Field studies observe how people interact with interfaces in their own environment. Real-world contexts reveal behaviors for which you might not be aware." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/contextual-inquiry/ Skip User Research Unless You're Doing it Eight - Seriously By Joe Munko. "…The data we gather out of exercises that over-index on speed are decontextualized and disconnected from other relevant insights we've collected over time and across studies. We need to pause and question whether this one-off research adds real value and contributes to an organization's growing understanding of customers when we know it may skip steps critical to identifying insights that transcend time and context…" https://medium.com/microsoft-design/skip-user-research-unless-youre-doing-it-right-seriously-15494e5ee033 +04: EVENTS. Section 508 Webinar Series: Making the Business Case for Accessibility: How to develop a Section 508 Communication Plan November 27, 2018. Online http://www.adainfo.org/training/section-508-webinar-series-making-business-case-accessibility-how-develop-section-508 Introduction to Website Accessibility November 30, 2018. Online https://accessontario.com/event/introduction-to-website-accessibility-5/ International Day of People with Disability December 3, 2018. Everywhere http://www.idpwd.com.au/ Accessibility Lawsuits, How to Handle Them; How to Avoid Them December 5-6, 2018. Washington, DC, U.S.A. https://www.accessibility.legal/ How to Create an Accessible Website December 5-6, 2018. Online https://accessontario.com/event/how-to-create-an-accessible-website-3/ +05: HTML. Introducing the Button Element By Andy Bell. "…There's a native element called a <button>, and I'm here to talk about it with you today…" https://hankchizljaw.io/wrote/introducing-the-button-element/ +06: MISCELLANEOUS. Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee Tells Us His Radical New Plan to Upend the World Wide Web By Fast Company. "With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web hopes it's game on for corporate tech giants like Facebook and Google…" https://www.fastcompany.com/90243936/exclusive-tim-berners-lee-tells-us-his-radical-new-plan-to-upend-the-world-wide-web I Have Resigned as the WordPress Accessibility Team Lead. Here is Why. By Rian Rietveld. "…In this post I'll try to give an analysis of what the WordPress Accessibility Team (wpa11y team) did during the development of Gutenberg and what the problems are with working on its accessibility…" https://rianrietveld.com/2018/10/09/i-have-resigned-the-wordpress-accessibility-team/ AccessU 2018 Eldering Panel By Wendy Chisholm, Lainey Feingold, and Sharron Rush. "This video is of Knowbility's 2018 AccessU conference panel: 'Honoring Wisdom, Embracing Change: A Conversation about Eldering in the Accessibility Community'…" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xks8xt8uVsk Why Design Thinking Works By Jeanne Liedtka. "Occasionally, a new way of organizing work leads to extraordinary improvements…" https://hbr.org/2018/09/why-design-thinking-works The Psychology of Design By Jon Yablonski. "As humans, we have an underlying 'blueprint' for how we perceive and process the world around us, and the study of psychology helps us define this blueprint. And as designers, we can leverage psychology principles to build more intuitive" https://alistapart.com/article/psychology-of-design +07: NAVIGATION. Why You Need a Home Link (Video) By Kathryn Whitenton. "Websites which provide a "home" link on every page make it easy for new visitors and users who are lost to get oriented." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/why-you-need-home-link/ +08: USABILITY. Using Dark Patterns for Good By Marli Mesibov. "It was so frustratingly difficult to find the 'sign out' button on Gmail that my father finally gave up and left himself signed in forever…" http://www.uxbooth.com/articles/using-dark-patterns-for-good/ Designing the Invisible By Viba Mohan. "Your one stop guide to designing for voice based interfaces…" https://uxplanet.org/designing-the-invisible-260291a02b71 Store Finders and Locators By Aurora Harley. Finding addresses and location information on company websites has gotten dramatically easier, but users increasingly turn to search engines or native map apps first for this task. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/store-finders-and-locators/ Bad Practices on Birthdate Form Fields By Anthony Tseng. "Asking users for their birthdate on a form is complicated…" http://uxmovement.com/forms/bad-practices-on-birthdate-form-fields/ [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +09: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? Accessibility Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/accessibility.html Association Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/associations.html Book Listings. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/books.html Cascading Style Sheets Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/css.html Color Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/color.html Drupal Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/drupal.html Evaluation & Testing Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/testing.html Event Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/events.html HTML Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/html.html Information Architecture Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/architecture.html JavaScript Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/javascript.html Miscellaneous Web Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/misc.html Navigation Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/navigation.html PHP Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/php.html Sites & Blogs Listing. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/sites.html Standards, Guidelines & Pattern Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/standards.html Tool Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/tools.html Typography Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/type.html Usability Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/usability.html XML Information. http://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: http://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.]   
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