+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 25, Issue 30, January 22, 2025. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 30 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: DRUPAL. 04: EVALUATION & TESTING. 05: EVENTS. 06: HTML. 07: JAVASCRIPT. 08: MISCELLANEOUS. 09: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 10: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. SUC-O-Meter: A New Way of Measuring Accessibility With Aashutosh Kulkarni (Video) By A11yTalks. @a11ytalks@mstdn.social "Aashutosh will be covering the new proposal for scoring an app's accessibility. He calls it the SUC Score (stands for Sub-optimal Usability and Comprehension Score) and the benefits of the same in terms of pulling the accessibility considerations in large organizations from back-burner to regular backlog…" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMfNK91_eeY New Techniques for Accessible PDF By PDF Association Staff. "These new Techniques for Accessible PDF are designed to help software developers, document authors, and remediators create accessible PDF files that better meet the needs of users with disabilities…" https://pdfa.org/new-techniques-for-accessible-pdf/ Collaboration Tools Accessibility User Requirements, W3C Editor's Draft Jason White, Janina Sajka, and Scott Hollier, editors. "This document outlines various accessibility-related user needs and requirements for both synchronous and asynchronous web-based collaboration tools based on various collaborative engagement scenarios…" https://w3c.github.io/ctaur/ Letter to Vendors Regarding New Accessibility Rules By The University of Oregon. "The text copied below is being sent to technology vendors who do business with the University of Oregon in the fall of 2024." https://digitalaccessibility.uoregon.edu/procurement/vendor-letter-2024 Americans with Disabilities Act Title II Web & Mobile Application Accessibility Rule (Video) By U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division. "In April 2024, the Department of Justice published a rule updating its regulations for Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The rule sets technical requirements for state and local governments to follow to make sure that their websites and mobile apps are accessible to people with disabilities. This webinar provides a summary of the rule. The summary is designed to provide introductory information about the rule's requirements…" https://www.ada.gov/title-ii-web-rule/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Justified Text: Better Than Expected? By Tyler Sticka. "When it comes to Western languages, most long-form text you'll encounter is either left-aligned (with an uneven, 'ragged' right edge) or justified (with words spaced evenly across a line). But I've long avoided the latter in my web design work…" https://cloudfour.com/thinks/justified-text-better-than-expected/ +03: DRUPAL. Sustainability By Mike Gifford. "A place to document sustainability efforts in Drupal. Some are focused on environmental sustainability, and some on economic sustainability…" https://www.drupal.org/docs/getting-started/sustainability +04: EVALUATION & TESTING. Three Ways to Score the UX of Products By Jeff Sauro and Jim Lewis. "…These methods are examples of three major types of UX studies: behavioral (task-based), attitudinal (retrospective), and analytic/inspection (PURE)…" https://measuringu.com/three-ways-to-score-the-ux-of-products/ A Case for Returning to In-Person Usability Testing (Video) By Hoa Loranger. "In-person usability testing provides insights remote testing can miss. It offers unique benefits, such as building rapport, observing non-verbal cues, and providing immersive experiences for stakeholders that enhance understanding." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/in-person-usability-testing/ +05: EVENTS. Document Remediation - Setting Up Your Workflow with Peter Kemeny, Funka Foundation January 24, 2025. Online https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iXeORFecR2Othkxj0F4GYg Accessibility and Design Systems January 29, 2025 6pm-7.30pm AEDT Online https://events.humanitix.com/ozewai-online-event-ask-the-professionals-29-january-2025 WebAIM Accessible Documents February 3-April 30, 2025. Online https://webaim.learn.usu.edu/courses/february-2025-accessible-documents Meets Accessibility February 20, 2025. Online https://smashingconf.com/meets-accessibility UX Virtual Training April 5-11, 2025. Online https://www.nngroup.com/training/april/ Web4All 2025 April 28-29, 2025. Sydney, Australia https://www.w4a.info/2025/ devopsdays Austin May 1-2, 2025. Austin, Texas, U.S.A. https://devopsdays.org/events/2025-austin/ +06: HTML. Don't Wrap Figure in a Link By Adrian Roselli. "…In short, adding title hides the contents of the figure from the majority of screen reader users. That's bad…" https://adrianroselli.com/2025/01/dont-wrap-figure-in-a-link.html Typical/Expected Screen Reader Output By Steve Faulkner. "hello 🗣️hello hello 🗣️hello goodbye hello 🗣️goodbye 🗣️goodbye 🗣️goodbye" https://mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/113865833451552946 Learning HTML Is the Best Investment I Ever Did By Christian Heilmann. "…Learning HTML is a solid investment and not hard to do…" https://christianheilmann.com/2025/01/15/learning-html-is-the-best-investment-i-ever-did/ +07: JAVASCRIPT. What Is a Callback Function? By Chris Ferdinandi. "…A callback function is just a function that another function runs (either immediately or a later time)…" https://gomakethings.com/what-is-a-callback-function/ How Do Implicit Arguments in JavaScript Callback Functions Work? By Chris Ferdinandi. "Today, we're going to talk about implicit arguments, the parameters that actually get passed into those callback functions. Let's dig in…" https://gomakethings.com/how-do-implicit-arguments-in-javascript-callback-functions-work/ How to Structure Functions By Chris Ferdinandi. "When it comes to writing functions, there are two extremes…" https://gomakethings.com/how-to-structure-functions/ Live Regions ARIA: Good and Bad Practices By Cécile Jeanne. "…Here are some concrete examples of how the ARIA live regions are appropriate, and in which cases they should be avoided…" https://access42.net/quand-utiliser-live-regions-aria/ +08: MISCELLANEOUS. Building the World Wide Web in Five Days! (Video) By Jeremy Keith and Remy Sharp. "…Jeremy Keith and Remy Sharp journeyed through time and space and code to recreate the experience of using the first ever web browser, WorldWideWeb…" https://www.youtube.com/live/XONerj4rE2I?t=448s NSA Warns iPhone And Android Users-Disable Location Tracking By Zak Doffman. "Our phones know where we are and they know where we have been-the problem is they have a nasty habit of sharing that information with others…" https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/01/16/nsa-warns-iphone-and-android-users-disable-location-tracking/ Not Every User Owns an iPhone By Alex Hamer. "…Through the data, we've seen the gap in user experience between high powered and low end mobile devices. The population of mobile users on these low spec devices is significant and they should not be ignored. They stand as a group we could be (and probably currently are) alienating and lead to missed opportunities if we continue to provide a poor user experience…We need to experience our users reality and build this into our software development processes. This way we can build inclusive web applications, improve for the many and open up missed opportunities." https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2024/not-every-user-owns-an-iphone/ +09: USABILITY. Why the 'None of the Above' Checkbox Pattern Worries Me By Adam Silver. "…my spidey sense kicks in when I see a convention-breaking pattern that introduces new problems. Instead do the simplest iteration and see how users get on. If it works, you’ve avoided all the risk. If it doesn’t, you can justify exploring more complex patterns…" https://adamsilver.io/blog/why-the-none-of-the-above-checkbox-pattern-worries-me/ [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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