+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 23, Issue 14, October 2, 2024. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 14 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: JAVASCRIPT. 07: MISCELLANEOUS. 08: TYPOGRAPHY. 09: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. SECTION TWO: 10: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. WCAG 2.1'S Success Criteria for Motion Actuation: Don't Rely on Sensors By Minnesota IT Services. "Learn what Motion Actuation is and why conventional controls matter…" https://mn.gov/mnit/media/blog/?id=38-643133 Making Maps Accessible to Screen Readers By Jason Ewert and Minnesota IT Services partnering with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, member of the Accessible Maps Community of Practice. "…This article summarizes that presentation and provides resources to help digital map designers incorporate accessibility into their maps. We have also included information about how the state's new Digital Accessibility Standard and WCAG 2.1, Level AA impacts digital map design…" https://mn.gov/mnit/about-mnit/accessibility/news/?id=38-645700 Accessibility Is Everyone's Responsibility By Meryl K. Evans. @MerylEvans@mastodon.social "…Accessibility is everyone's responsibility. By making accessibility a core part of business, companies create a more inclusive, welcoming environment for all. When people can bring their full selves and have the accessibility they require, they achieve more. Isn't that the most important thing?…" https://meryl.net/accessibility-everyones-responsibility/ The State of Accessibility - Episode 1: Intro to the State of Accessibility By Mark Miller and David Sloan. "Welcome to The State of Accessibility's first LinkedIn Live session! Hosted by Mark Miller, TPGi's Director of Sales, and David Sloan, Chief Accessibility Officer. Each month, we'll explore the current state of digital accessibility. In this inaugural episode, Mark and David discuss ADA Title II and the European Accessibility Act in detail and uncover recent research around accessibility overlays…" https://www.tpgi.com/the-state-of-accessibility-episode-1/ Inclusive Marketing: Stategies for Success (Video) By Intopia. @intopia@mastodon.social "…This webinar was recorded in September 2024, and features Meryl Evans, professional speaker and trainer; Priya Addams Williams, Shift 20 Initiative Lead at Dylan Alcott Foundation; and Gerry Neustatl, Accessibility Manager at Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). The webinar is moderated by Naomi Saines, Marketing Manager at Intopia Meryl, Gerry and Priya dive into the must-have tools and strategies for crafting campaigns that everyone can enjoy…" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5RNA3_rSB8 Ask the Professionals - 27 September 2024 (Video) By OZeWAI. @ozewai@mastodon.social "OZeWAI Co-chair Bri Norton moderated a panel on the topic of Accessible training and courses, featuring Dax Castro (Chax Training and Consulting), Gian Wild (AccessibilityOz) and Russ Weakley (Intopia)." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97CWoO5lEWY&t=10s Empathy and Innovation in Online Retail (Video) By AXSChat. @axschat@mastodon.world @Tribo@mastodon.social "How do you transform a major online retailer into a beacon of accessibility? Join us as we sit down with Tzveta Dinova, the pioneering accessibility lead at ASOS, who shares her compelling journey from design and education to becoming a trailblazer in inclusive practices. " https://vimeo.com/1013672159 XR Accessibility: For People With Thinking Disabilities By Joe Lamyman. @JoeLamyman@indieweb.social @TetraLogical@a11y.social, "…In this post, we'll explore considerations for designing and developing inclusive XR experiences for people with thinking disabilities…" https://tetralogical.com/blog/2024/09/26/xr-accessibility-for-people-with-thinking-disabilities/ XR Accessibility: For People With Hearing Disabilities By Joe Lamyman. "…In this post, we’ll explore considerations for designing and developing inclusive XR experiences for people with hearing disabilities…" https://tetralogical.com/blog/2024/10/01/xr-accessibility-for-people-with-hearing-disabilities/ Introducing NCADEMI: The National Center on Accessible Digital Educational Materials & Instruction By Cynthia Curry. "…NCADEMI will apply WebAIM's expertise and tools to develop free resources for the evaluation, procurement, selection, creation, and use of accessible digital educational materials and instruction in PreK–12…" https://webaim.org/blog/introducing-ncademi/ FCC Adopts Rules to Improve Access to Video Conferencing Services (PDF) By The Federal Communications Commission. "…Building on the FCC's 2023 Order making clear that video conferencing services must be accessible to people with disabilities under our rules, the FCC voted to enhance the accessibility standards for these online tools. New performance objectives include accurate and synchronous captioning; access to third-party captioning and sign language services; and users' ability to adjust captions, video windows, and other features that are important for accessibility…" https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-405805A1.pdf Developing anti-SLAPP policies for A11y Slack with Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic By Marcy Sutton Todd. "Supporting the Accessibility Slack community with legal guidance on avoiding potential SLAPP suits (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation)…" https://marcysutton.com/developing-anti-slapp-policies-a11y-slack-harvard-cyberlaw U.S. v. Springfield Clinic, LLC By U.S. Department of Justice. "On May 7, 2024, the United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of Illinois executed a settlement agreement with Springfield Clinic LLC pursuant to Title III of the ADA…" https://www.justice.gov/crt/case/us-v-springfield-clinic-llc Legal Update: September 2024 By Ken Nakata. "…Every month seems to start slowly in the world of web accessibility. This month, the first interesting case didn't pop up until almost the middle of the month…" https://convergeaccessibility.com/2024/09/30/legal-update-september-2024/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Observing Style Changes By Bramus Van Damme. @bramus@front-end.social "I gave a talk at the September 2024 devs.gent meetup on how to observe and respond to Style Changes…" https://www.bram.us/2024/09/25/observing-style-changes-2024-09-25-devs-gent/ Default Behavior of Position Absolute By Temani Afif. @css@front-end.social "Many have a wrong information about the default behavior of position: absolute element…" https://css-tip.com/initial-containing-block/ View Transitions (Podcast) By The CSS Podcast. "In this episode Una and Adam bring on an esteemed guest Bramus, who brings us deep knowledge on View Transitions. These are easy to get started with but difficult to master, but not with Bramus here to teach us. He'll be covering introductory to advanced API features and a big bag of examples and demos…" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBEvOh9jlis +03: EVALUATION & TESTING. Remote User Testing With Kids and Teens By Jared Turner and Ferdia Kenny. "There are many things to consider when user testing remotely. But when dealing with children, additional factors come into play…" https://thoughtbot.com/blog/remote-testing-with-kids-teens 7 Tips for Successful Discoveries By Maria Rosala. "Discovery is challenging; it can be hard to know what to research, how to do discovery as a team, and how to get buy-in. Follow these 7 tips for smoother discovery efforts." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/7-tips-discovery/ +04: EVENTS. Help Audit Nonprofit Websites for Accessibility October 4-6, 2024. Online and Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. https://www.meetup.com/atlanta-accessibility-meetup/events/302697515/ Get Online Week with Kylie Pollock and Scott Nixon. Ricky Onsman moderator. @onsman@aus.social @ozewai@mastodon.social October 18, 2024 at 11.30 a.m Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST). Online. https://events.humanitix.com/ozewai-online-event-ask-the-professionals-18-october-2024-get-online-week Ask the Professionals: Accessibility Testing with Gian Wild, Amanda Mace, Hans Hillen, and Karl McCabe. @hhillen@mastodon.social @ozewai@mastodon.social November 20, 2024 at 12 noon Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST). https://events.humanitix.com/ozewai-online-event-ask-the-professionals-20-november-2024 +05: HTML. The b Element By Heydon Pickering. @heydon@mastodon.social "The first of the HTML elements beginning with b is [maniacally rifles through stack of coffee-stained scrawlings] the element…" https://heydonworks.com/article/the-b-element/ The bdi Element By Heydon Pickering. "…As the name suggests, the (Bidirectional Isolate) element is used to isolate a set of characters such that the algorithm is applied to them separately…" https://heydonworks.com/article/the-bdi-element/ Web Components Are Okay By Nolan Lawson. @nolan@toot.cafe "Every so often, the web development community gets into a tizzy about something, usually web components…" https://nolanlawson.com/2024/09/28/web-components-are-okay/ +06: JAVASCRIPT. A Guide to Destructuring in JavaScript By Mat 'Wilto' Marquis. @Wilto@front-end.social "…A destructuring assignment allows you to extract individual values from an array or object and assign them to a set of identifiers without needing to access the values of each element the old-fashioned way-one at a time, by index or key…" https://piccalil.li/blog/a-guide-to-destructuring-in-javascript/ +07: MISCELLANEOUS. The Web We Want: A Beginner's Guide to the IndieWeb By Paul Robert Lloyd. @paulrobertlloyd@mastodon.social "How to build a place on the web where you can own your identity, control your content and create whatever the hell you like…" https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2024/201/s1/peckham_digital/ POSSE: Reclaiming Social Media in a Fragmented World By Molly White. @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io "…A simple technique offers the best of both worlds: total control over your own work, while still maintaining a presence on third-party platforms…The short-term solution to these problems is a little-known acronym called POSSE. Short for Post (on) Own Site Syndicate Elsewhere, it’s not a protocol or even a piece of software, but rather a philosophy…" https://www.citationneeded.news/posse/ Generative AI's Illusory Case for Fair Use By Jacqueline Charlesworth. "…each of the four factors of section 107 of the Copyright Act weighs against AI's claim of fair use, especially when considered against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving market for licensed use of training materials…" https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4924997 Basic Myths about Disability I Can't Believe We Still Have to Debunk By Sarah Blahovec. "To be honest, I was really hoping that what I'm about to write was common knowledge by now. I really wish that society in general understood disability better, but it seems necessary to counter the basic inaccurate beliefs people have about disability and those who live with it…" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/basic-myths-about-the-dis_b_9560556 +08: TYPOGRAPHY. The Problem With Superscripts and Subscripts By Richard Rutter. @Richr@mastodon.social "When marking up a web page featuring text that requires superscripts or subscripts, we should use the semantically meaningful and elements…" https://clagnut.com/blog/2434/ +09: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. Data Center Surging Electricity Demand By Gerry McGovern. @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green "Like Moore’s Law, energy efficiency for data centers began to run out of steam by the 2010s. After substantial progress between 2007 and 2018, the energy efficiency didn’t actually improve much between 2018 and 2024. It didn’t stop the PR spin about how Big Tech is so efficient and getting more efficient every year…" https://gerrymcgovern.com/data-center-surging-electricity-demand/ Can Charities Lead the Way to a More Humane Web? By Tom Greenwood. "…Data centres hidden away in industrial parks, telecom networks that span the entire globe (and into space), and billions of digital devices are using electricity 24/7 and producing carbon emissions. Moreover, a staggering amount of precious raw materials is extracted every year to manufacture new digital devices, replacing older ones that are discarded far too soon. This leads to 62 billion kilograms of electronic waste annually - equivalent to the weight of more than 6,100 Eiffel Towers…" https://www.wholegraindigital.com/blog/charities-lead-humane-web/ [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +10: 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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