+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 23, Issue 25, December 18, 2024. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 25 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: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. SECTION TWO: 08: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. Updated Drafts for Review: W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 By Web Accessibility Initiative. "…Today W3C published updated drafts…" https://www.w3.org/news/2024/updated-drafts-for-review-w3c-accessibility-guidelines-wcag-3-0/ WCAG 3 December 2024 Update and Thoughts From the Co-Chairs By Rachael Bradley Montgomery, Alastair Campbell, and Chuck Adams. "…This post presents an overview of this update as well as AG co-chairs thoughts on the standard's direction…" https://whollyaccessible.org/2024/12/11/wcag-3-december-24-update/ Colleges Must Fix Millions of Web Pages. It's About Damn Time. By Ashlee M. Boyer. "…High cost is a very predictable consequence of ignoring accessibility for too long. Colleges are just going to have to accept the consequences and right their wrongs. The sooner they do, the sooner everyone can move on and focus on the good stuff. I promise it's not as hard as they think." https://ashleemboyer.com/blog/college-web-a11y-finally The Myth of "Accessible Components and Done" By Michael Mathews. "Think you've solved all your accessibility problems by using an accessible component library? Think again." https://www.a11yquest.com/blog/2024-11-13-component-libraries Potential Dangers of Status Messages By Bogdan Cerovac. "WCAG 4.1.3 is dedicated to status messages and we encourage their use, but we need to be aware of some potential dangers that are often beyond strict technical conformance…" https://cerovac.com/a11y/2024/12/potential-dangers-of-status-messages/ Preventing Ageism in Design: Digital Accessibility for Older Adults By Melissa Morse. "As technology continues to shape our world, it's more important than ever to ensure that older adults are not excluded from digital spaces…" https://www.tpgi.com/preventing-ageism-in-design-digital-accessibility-for-older-adults/ Empowering People with Disabilities to Live, Work, Learn, and Thrive (Video) By United States Senate Special Committee On Aging. Senator Robert Casey's last session as Chair of this committee. https://www.aging.senate.gov/hearings/empowering-people-with-disabilities-to-live-work-learn-and-thrive A11y 101: 1.2.6 Sign Language (Pre-recorded) By Nat Tarnoff. "This week we meet our first AAA level success criterion…" https://tarnoff.info/2024/12/16/a11y-101-1-2-6-sign-language-pre-recorded/ Easily Check for Web Accessibility Problems in Ten Minutes or Less By Thea Walther. "Does making your website accessible feel a bit intimidating or overwhelming? Are you unsure where to begin? Don't worry, here are a few quick steps to look for low-hanging fruit, with no technical expertise required…" https://axesslab.com/easily-check-for-web-accessibility-problems-in-ten-minutes-or-less/ There's More to Digital Accessibility Than Policy By Greg Williams. "Digital accessibility advocates often face tremendous challenges at their organizations when trying to motivate and encourage digital content creators to build accessibly…" https://www.deque.com/blog/theres-more-to-digital-accessibility-than-policy/ Another attempt to simply read the funny pages By Gregory J. Rosmaita. "…that turned into an attempt to force Be My Eyes (BME) to once again be self-analytical & to share the products of that analysis with me…" https://kolektiva.social/@oedipusnj/113635036087050166 Exchange: https://share.bemyeyes.com/en-US/chat/8k7dXtqsir ShatGPT 4o By Steve Faulkner. "What better to ask if ChatGPT must comply with the European Accessibility Act (EAA) than ChatGPT…" https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2024/12/13/shatgpt-4o/ How to Dehumanize Accessibility with AI By Ashlee M. Boyer. "…AI is not the path to fixing inaccessibility or understanding web accessibility specifications. The path to understanding is hiring disabled people and hiring web accessibility experts. If you find someone who is both, you've hit the jackpot." https://ashleemboyer.com/blog/how-to-dehumanize-accessibility-with-ai The "Perilous Pitfalls" of Accessibility Maturity By Sheri Byrne-Haber. "…This article is my take on the UX pitfalls identified in the HFI article as applied to accessibility…" https://buttondown.com/access-ability/archive/the-perilous-pitfalls-of-accessibility-maturity/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. CSS text-wrap By Eric A. Meyer. "…thanks to the shorthand property text-wrap - I'll break it apart into the longhand properties later - we can exert… well, some influence. Plus we can do things that we used to rely on white-space to do. For example, we can prevent text wrapping…" https://12daysofweb.dev/2024/css-text-wrap/ calc-size() and Interpolate Size By Kevin Powell. "It's now possible to animate to or from height: auto and other intrinsic sizes…" https://12daysofweb.dev/2024/calc-size-and-interpolate-size/ +03: EVALUATION & TESTING. What is a Typical No-Show Rate for Moderated Studies? By Jeff Sauro and Jim Lewis. "…So, what is a typical no-show rate? To help answer that question, we looked at published data as well as our own data…" https://measuringu.com/typical-no-show-rate-for-moderated-studies/ Sample Sizes for Qualitative Studies (Video) By Maria Rosala. "When choosing your sample size for a qualitative research study, consider these three factors: the diversity of your target group, your research scope, and the researcher's skill level." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/sample-sizes-for-qualitative-studies/ Testing Visual Design: A Comprehensive Guide By Megan Chan. "Use methods like 5-second testing, first-click testing, and preference testing to gain insights into how users perceive your visual design." https://www.nngroup.com/articles/testing-visual-design/ +04: EVENTS. Advancing Digital Accessibility for Scientific and Technical Publications December 17, 2024. Online https://niso.org/events/advancing-digital-accessibility-scientific-and-technical-publications Global Accessibility Awareness Day Call for Proposals from the University of Minnesota Proposal Deadline: January 3, 2025. Online Conference: May 15, 2025. https://accessibility.umn.edu/gaad/2025-proposal-criteria ConveyUX February 25-27, 2025. Online and Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. https://conveyux.com/ World Information Architecture Day March 8, 2025. Global https://www.worldiaday.org/ +05: HTML. ARIA in HTML Scott O'Hara and Patrick H. Lauke, Editors. "This specification defines the authoring rules (author conformance requirements) for the use of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.2 and Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0 attributes on [HTML] elements…" https://www.w3.org/TR/html-aria/ Improving User Experience for Multilingual Web Browsing By Anastasiia Batarei. "Today, I'd like to talk about the experience of browsing websites where content is fully or partially in a language different from the user's native one.…" https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/13/ HTML inert Attribute By Steve Frenzel. "Adding the inert attribute to an HTML element makes it-and whatever is inside-unavailable to user interaction." https://12daysofweb.dev/2024/html-inert-attribute/ +06: JAVASCRIPT. The Gift You Do NOT Want: A Div in a Button's Clothing By Corina Murg. "With the right CSS makeup and a click event, almost anything can pretend to be a button. In accessibility work, we spot these fakes and fix them, but teaching others why and how to do it is just as important. It's not just about correcting a single mistake; it's about introducing developers to accessibility concepts and approaches that they can comfortably return to and reuse across all their projects. More importantly, it encourages them to think beyond the sighted user with a mouse and consider the needs of those who rely on assistive technologies…" https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/15/ You Don't Need the isOpen class By Maureen Holland. "Don't get me wrong. You can keep it if you like it. But you don't need it.…" https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/16/ +07: MISCELLANEOUS. Whose Web Is It Anyway? Frontmania, Utrecht (Video) By Bruce Lawson. "The video of my keynote talk at Frontmania, Utrecht was published. The video quality doesn't really let you read the slides, which are available on Speakerdeck…" https://brucelawson.co.uk/2024/whose-web-is-it-anyway-frontmania-utrecht/ +08: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. AI Has an Environmental Problem. Here's What the World Can Do About That. By United Nations Environment Programme. "…when it comes to the environment, there is a negative side to the explosion of AI and its associated infrastructure, according to a growing body of research…" https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/ai-has-environmental-problem-heres-what-world-can-do-about [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +09: 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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