+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 25, Issue 28, January 8, 2025. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 28 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: EVENTS. 04: HTML. 05: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. 06: MISCELLANEOUS. 07: NAVIGATION. 08: USABILITY. 09: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY. SECTION TWO: 10: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. Principles Of Web Accessibility By Heydon Pickering. "A set of high-level guiding principles for approaching web accessibility…" https://github.com/Heydon/principles-of-web-accessibility How to Do Alt Text on Social Media for Artists and Photographers By Nicolas Steenhout. "Adding alt text on images you post on social media is important for blind people to access your content…" https://nicolas-steenhout.com/alt-text-social-media-for-artists-and-photographers/ PDF Accessibility on the Web: Tricks and Traps (Video) By Ricky Onsman. "PDF documents on the web can be made accessible if the proper techniques are applied - but even then, there are some things to watch out for. TPGi's Principal Technical Writer, Ricky Onsman, highlights some problems and solutions. This is a recording of an October 2024 WordPress Accessibility Meetup…" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTWxadXcFME Updated Reflow Understanding Document GitHub #4055 By Scott O'Hara. "This initial commit takes the current draft from the google doc that had been worked on for quite some time now, and makes it into a PR for further editing and review…" Scott has been working hard on a proposed update to the 1.4.10: Reflow (Level AA) Understanding doc. It will need to be approved by the Working Group. Pull Request: https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/4055 Preview: https://deploy-preview-4055--wcag2.netlify.app/understanding/reflow Diff: https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FWAI%2FWCAG22%2FUnderstanding%2Freflow.html&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Fdeploy-preview-4055--wcag2.netlify.app%2Funderstanding%2Freflow Mobile Accessibility Advent Calendar Part 1 By Mark Steadman. "In the month of December, I created a mobile accessibility advent calendar across social platforms (LinkedIN, BlueSky). Each day I posted something about mobile accessibility to strengthen the knowledge of the a11y community, mobile developers and designers…" https://dev.to/steady5063/mobile-accessibility-advent-calendar-part-1-1iac Unlocking Accessibility: User Researchers Share Their Approach to Digital Accessibility and Recruiting People With Disabilities By Kelly Clarkson and Samantha Merrett. "…In the second installment of this series, we asked user researchers from various government departments and public sector organisations about their role in making digital services accessible, recruiting people with access needs, and sharing best practices for integrating accessibility into the user research process…" https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2025/01/07/unlocking-accessibility-user-researchers-share-their-approach-to-digital-accessibility-and-recruiting-people-with-disabilities/ The European Accessibility Act: Understanding Digital Accessibility By Digital Accessibility Centre (DAC). "…This explainer describes the responsibilities on various entities created by the act, including the types of products and services covered by the act. Conformance to the act primarily relies on harmonised standards, and there are measures to address fundamental alteration and disproportionate burden. Finally the explainer collates and describes all the accessibility requirements for various types of products and services…" https://digitalaccessibilitycentre.org/blogs/NewEAA-20241217.html FTC Order Requires Online Marketer to Pay $1 Million for Deceptive Claims that its AI Product Could Make Websites Compliant with Accessibility Guidelines By Federal Trade Commission. "Company also failed to disclose material connections to online reviewers…" https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-order-requires-online-marketer-pay-1-million-deceptive-claims-its-ai-product-could-make-websites FTC Catches Up to #accessiBe By By Adrian Roselli. "The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider accessiBe to pay $1 million to settle allegations that it misrepresented the ability of its AI-powered web accessibility tool to make any website compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) for people with disabilities…" https://adrianroselli.com/2025/01/ftc-catches-up-to-accessibe.html FTC Orders AI Accessibility Startup accessiBe to Pay $1M for Misleading Advertising By Kyle Wiggers. "…The FTC's order, which was approved unanimously by the FTC's five commissioners, will be subject to public comment for 30 days, after which the Commission will decide whether to make it final." https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/03/ftc-orders-ai-accessibility-startup-accessibe-to-pay-1m-for-misleading-advertising/ 2025 - the Year for Worldwide E-Commerce Accessibility? By Bogdan Cerovac. "2025 is the year of European Accessibility Act. But we can establish that it will help with global accessibility, not only European…" https://cerovac.com/a11y/2025/01/2025-the-year-for-worldwide-e-commerce-accessibility/ The 2025 LFLegal Digital Accessibility Joy Plan By Lainey Feingold. "This is an article about the value of having a Joy Plan as we enter a challenging and scary political time in the United States.…" https://www.lflegal.com/2025/01/joy-plan/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Balancing Text In CSS By Ahmad Shadeed. "Almost two years ago, I published an article about text-wrap: balance and how useful it is. I thought about revisiting the topic with a more solid exploration and examples that include different values of text-wrap…" https://ishadeed.com/article/balancing-text-css/ +03: EVENTS. devopsdays Raleigh April 16-17, 2025. Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A. https://devopsdays.org/events/2025-raleigh/ JS Naked Day April 24, 2025. Online https://js-naked-day.org/ Symposium on Usability and Design April 24-25, 2025. Strasbourg, France https://usability-conference.unistra.fr/ The Web Conference 2025 April 28-May 2, 2025. Sydney, Australia https://www2025.thewebconf.org/ ACCESS 2025 April 29-30, 2025. Online https://go.3playmedia.com/en/access/2025-save-the-date +04: HTML. Brief Note on Figure and Figcaption Support By Adrian Roselli. "…the
element should not provide the accName for the figure nor the content it contains…" https://adrianroselli.com/2025/01/brief-note-on-figure-and-figcaption-support.html Updated Brief Note on Description List Support By Adrian Roselli. "Description list support continues to be generally good (with VoiceOver still the outlier), even if you may not like how it is supported…" https://adrianroselli.com/2025/01/updated-brief-note-on-description-list-support.html Using iframes to Embed Arbitrary Content Is Probably a Bad Idea By Martin Underhill. "The