+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 23, Issue 16, October 16, 2024. 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: BOOKS. 03: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. 04: EVALUATION & TESTING. 05: EVENTS. 06: HTML. 07: MISCELLANEOUS. 08: NAVIGATION. 09: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS. 10: TYPOGRAPHY. 11: USABILITY. 12: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. SECTION TWO: 13: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. Making the Web Accessible: A Focus on Cognitive Disabilities By Melissa Morse. "Let's explore what cognitive disabilities are, why they matter in digital accessibility, and how to make the web more usable for everyone…" https://www.tpgi.com/making-the-web-accessible-a-focus-on-cognitive-disabilities/ How to Create Truly Accessible Forms With Caroline Jarrett (Video) By Caroline Jarrett. "In this talk, Caroline will explore through a specific question -how to ask for a phone number? - the new WCAG 2.1 guidelines (September 23). See whether a typical design system can help us, and then introduce the 'question protocol' - a method for examining and challenging every question on your new form so that the form meets user needs, conforms to the WCAG guidelines, and is accessible for everyone…" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0RGA0eTYL0 Inclusive Design Patterns For 2025 (Video) By Vitaly Friedman. "…In this practical 3.5h-workshop, Vitaly will take a deep dive into UX and design guidelines, hundreds of real-life examples, best practices, and guidelines for truly accessible, inclusive, universal design. Expect to leave with a toolbox of insights and practical techniques to apply to any project…" https://www.youtube.com/live/xEtKkLdAnvI Vitaly's resources document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZKV1P9pSbnCA6XE6MHoOPqN6VBjCZDFY30L2Nt9Mkb0/ Navigating Menus on Mobile: A Blind Diner's Accessibility Insights By Michael Taylor. "…As a blind screen reader user, I aim to show how mobile accessibility best practices directly impact my experience…" https://blog.usablenet.com/navigating-menus-on-mobile-a-blind-diners-accessibility-insights PowerPoint Accessibility Checklist By Dax Castro. "…The following checklist is designed to help you evaluate your slide deck content for usability…" https://creativepro.com/powerpoint-accessibility-checklist/ AI for Accessibility Conformance Testing? Why? By Steve Faulkner. "I have noticed a number of people are advocating the use of AI/LLMs (Large Language Models) for accessibility testing and/or code remediation. My onging question is why?" https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2024/10/10/ai-for-accessibility-conformance-testing-why/ Reminder – Automatic Accessibility Testing Can Detect Inaccessibility but Can't Detect Accessibility By Bogdan Cerovac. "We need to be aware of the limitation of the tools to be able to use them properly and to prevent any bias.…" https://cerovac.com/a11y/2024/10/reminder-automatic-accessibility-testing-can-detect-inaccessibility-but-cant-detect-accessibility/ ADA Title II and the University of Minnesota (UMN) (Video) By Patricia Izek, Khaled Musa, Shane Nackerud, and Luke Kudryashov. "This webinar will go over what types of content are included and what the exceptions are. Most importantly, we will share what the University has done in preparation to date, and what we are doing to meet the compliance deadline. We will also share recommendations and resources to help you raise awareness in your college or department." https://mediaspace.umn.edu/media/t/1_3eyi2lvq/232711343 Captioning Lyrics and Copyright Laws By Thomas Logan and Ken Nakata. "…This is Thomas Logan from Equal Entry here with Ken Nakata of Converge Accessibility . In this episode of A11yInsights, we're talking about movies and TV shows that don't caption song lyrics when they should be…" https://equalentry.com/captioning-lyrics-copyright-laws/ Shopify, Accessibility Lawsuits & 'Compliance' By Nic Chan. "…Accessibility is affected by both content and code. An accessible theme won't get you anywhere if you have inaccessible content (or apps!). Not ever thinking about accessibility and wanting to not ever think about it is indeed, ableist. 'Compliance' is a loaded term. A perfect Accessibility Compliance Report (ACR) is not always perfect. Disabled people have very little means by which to ask for access other than complaints and litigation…" https://www.nicchan.me/blog/shopify-accessibility-lawsuits-compliance/ +02: BOOKS. Greenwood, Tom. Sustainable Web Design, Revised edition, Wholegrain Books, 2024. Eric Meyer and Sara Wachter-Boettcher, Design for Real Life, Originally published by A Book Apart. Now available directly from the authors. https://dfrlbook.com/ +03: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Learn CSS Grid - Part 2 By Miriam and Stacy Kvernmo. "…this is part two of our dive into CSS grids. We address your questions about strategy - demoing how we plan and apply grid layouts, starting with a design and implementing in the browser…" https://www.oddbird.net/2024/09/17/winging-it-12/ +04: EVALUATION & TESTING. Should You Use the Mean or Median of the SUS? By Jim Lewis and Jeff Sauro. "…To investigate this question, we analyzed and compared SUS means and medians collected from over 18,000 individuals who used the SUS to rate the perceived usability of over 200 products and services. But before we get to those results, it helps to understand the difference between the median and mean and why you might choose one or the other…" https://measuringu.com/should-you-use-the-mean-or-median-of-the-sus/ How to Organize User Feedback with a Severity Scale By Nick Lioudis. "Why we think a severity scale is important at User Interviews — and how it can make sense for your organization, too.…" https://www.userinterviews.com/blog/user-feedback-severity-scale Why Use 40 Participants in Quantitative UX Research? (Video) By Page Laubheimer. "40 is the optimal sample size for many quantitative UX studies, ensuring a balance of precision, risk, and practicality." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/why-40-participants-quantitative-research/ Getting into the Discovery Mindset By Maria Rosala. "Successful discovery requires teams to be open to uncovering 'unknown unknowns.' Center your discovery efforts around problems rather than solutions." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/discovery-mindset/ +05: EVENTS. Oregon and the DOJ Title II Rule with Adam McBride-Smith October 22, 2024. Online. https://www.meetup.com/portland-accessibility-and-user-experience-meetup/events/302719198/ Creating an Accessibility Feedback Loop October 24, 2024. San Francisco, California, U.S.A. https://www.meetup.com/a11ybay/events/303610130/ AI and Alternative Text October 28, 2024. Online. https://www.meetup.com/accessibility-twin-cities/events/303064869/ How Continuous Accessibility Can Boost Your Accessibility Maturity November 19, 2024. Online and New York, New York, U.S.A. https://www.meetup.com/a11ynyc/events/303624811/ Gaadys 2024 November 21, 2024. San Francisco, California, U.S.A. https://tickets.gaad.foundation/e/2/gaadys-2024 Thought Partner Program: Advancing Digital Accessibility in Higher Education November 21-December 12, 2024. Online https://nercomp.org/learn-network/events/Dig_Access/ +06: HTML. The blockquote Element By Heydon Pickering. "…So what is a
? The 'block' part seems to denote a block-level element—which it is. For inline (or 'text-level') quotations, there is instead. Both elements are based on the common HTMLQuoteElement interface. Before HTML5, there was no requirement that the quotation had to be from an external source…" https://heydonworks.com/article/the-blockquote-element/ HTML Is for People By Blake Watson. "HTML isn't only for people working in the tech field. It's for anybody, the way documents are for anybody. HTML is just another type of document. A very special one-the one the web is built on.…" https://htmlforpeople.com/ +07: MISCELLANEOUS. Molly White, Citation Needed / Web3 Is Going Just Great (Video) By Molly White. Molly's presentation ath the August 2024 at XOXO Festival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTaeVVAvk-c Relaunching the Huge Website of a World-Leading University By Clearleft. "This is the story of how we worked with Imperial to transform its website, aligning an ambitious new strategy with its bold new brand…" https://clearleft.com/work/imperial +08: NAVIGATION. 5 Tips for Avoiding Confusing Category Names By Hoa Loranger and Taylor Dykes. "Category and link labels should tell users what will happen when they click on them." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/category-names-suck/ +09: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS. On the 55th World Standards Day, My History of the Web and Relationship With W3C By Coralie Mercier. "Today is the 55th World Standards Day. The first one was declared in 1970…" https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/on-the-55th-world-standards-day-my-history-of-the-web-and-relationship-with-w3c/ +10: TYPOGRAPHY. Students Struggle to Read a New Font Introduced to the UM Website By Sav Chavez. "When the University of Montana relaunched their website on July 9, feedback began rolling in from faculty, staff and University employees struggling to read, understand, and retain information given in headlines due to the new Serif font…" https://www.montanakaimin.com/news/students-struggle-to-read-a-new-font-introduced-to-the-um-website/article_4ffd5fca-865c-11ef-8506-67160c9b1f63.html +11: USABILITY. Simplicity By UX Collective. "On removing complexity to add meaning…" https://www.doc.cc/articles/simplicity Software for All Ages: Tackling Ageism With Industry Experts By Elaina Natario, Kelly Gebo, and Caro Sotillo Silva. "October 9th, 2024 is Ageism Awareness Day and as society grows increasingly diverse and interconnected, it's important to keep inclusivity in mind when building mobile and web products. In support of Ageism Awareness Day, we wanted to spread awareness and offer actionable tips from experts…" https://thoughtbot.com/blog/software-for-all-ages-tackling-ageism-with-industry-experts +12: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. Extreme Secrecy of Data Centers By Gerry McGovern. "…Big Tech goes to huge efforts to deny academic institutions or other research bodies access to data that would help highlight the harm Big Tech does. 'Without better transparency and more reporting on the issue, it's impossible to track the real environmental impacts of AI models,' Kate Crawford, a research professor at USC Annenberg, who specializes in the societal impacts of AI, told the Financial Times…How much water do US data centers use? 'We don't really know,' Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory research scientist Dr. Arman Shehabi explained. 'I never thought it could be worse transparency than on the energy side, but we actually know less.' According to Sebastian Moss, writing for Data Center Dynamics, 'We don't know how much water data centers use. We just know it's a lot.'…" https://gerrymcgovern.com/extreme-secrecy-of-data-centers/ [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +13: 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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