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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 06:09:27 -0500
From: Laura Carlson <[log in to unmask]>
To: webdev <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [webdev] Web Design Update: October 29, 2015
+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
- Volume 14, Issue 18, October 29, 2015.
An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web
design and development.
++ISSUE 18 CONTENTS.
SECTION ONE: New references.
What's new at the Web Design Reference site?
http://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: HTML5.
07: JAVASCRIPT.
08: NAVIGATION.
09: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.
10: USABILITY.
11: XML.
SECTION TWO:
12: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site?
[Contents ends.]
++ SECTION ONE: New references.
+01: ACCESSIBILITY.
$20 Million Grant Powers Game-Changing Internet Access Effort
By Renee Meiller.
"A global effort to create a new computer ecosystem that is easily
accessible to people with disabilities, senior citizens and others
with special needs is set to become reality through a $20 million
federal grant to the University of Wisconsin-Madison."
http://news.wisc.edu/24121
The Beginner's Guide to Accessible Mobile UI Design
By Proto.io.
"Accessibility isn't just a nice to have - for mobile app designers
and developers, building your app to accessibility specs helps your
mobile UI design reach a broader audience, while becoming more usable
for everyone..."
https://medium.com/@protoio/the-beginner-s-guide-
to-accessible-mobile-ui-design-ca13a7342c27#.9wilv1niw
Android Accessibility - The Missing Manual
By Ted Drake.
"This presentation was created for the Bangalore Accessibility Week at
Intuit, October 2015. It's a collection of hard to discover
information on making an Android application accessible..."
http://www.last-child.com/android-a11y-missing-manual/
Great Statistics from G3ICT
By Gian Wild.
"... Of countries that have ratified the Convention on the Rights of
People with Disabilities, these are the percentages of countries that
have...Government websites that are accessible: 45%..."
http://www.gianwild.com.au/2015/10/great-statistics-from-g3ict/
Blind Woman Sues Red Roof Inns, Alleging Inaccessible Website
By Carol Ostrow.
"...According to the complaint, Red Roof is currently out of
compliance with Title III of the ADA because its website is not
accessible to blind and visually impaired consumers..."
http://pennrecord.com/stories/510641392-
blind-woman-sues-red-roof-inns-alleging-inaccessible-website
Blind Woman Sues Toys "R" Us, Alleging Violation of Federal Disabilities Act
By Gene Johnson.
"A blind Pennsylvania woman is suing Toy 'R' Us, alleging its websites
are not accessible to blind and visually challenged consumers,
violating Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act..."
http://pennrecord.com/stories/510637970-
blind-woman-sues-toys-r-us-alleging-violation-of-federal-disabilities-act
Complaint:
https://jnswire.s3.amazonaws.com/jns-media/21/7d/111648/sipe.pdf
Towards the Improvement of W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (PDF)
By Jose R. Hilera, Eva Garcia, Antonio Garcia, Concha Batanero, Salvador Oton.
"This paper presents the results of a study about possible
improvements to the ISO 40500 standard, which contains the web content
accessibility guidelines established by the World Wide Web Consortium
in WCAG 2.0. Expert web developers from twelve different countries
have participated in the study..."
PDF: http://www.cc.uah.es/hilera/a11y/ac2015.pdf
Docx: http://www.cc.uah.es/hilera/a11y/ac2015.docx
+02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
Flexbox A11y Test
By Jules Ernst.
"Check how accessibility is implemented in browsers and screenreaders
when flexbox with the CSS-property order is used."
http://200ok.nl/a11y-flexbox/
How Positioning CSS Properties Interact
By Ire Aderinokun.
"When positioning elements, there are four CSS properties we use -
display, position, float, and the offset properties (top, right,
bottom and left)."
http://bitsofco.de/2015/how-positioning-css-properties-interact/
+03: DRUPAL.
Drupal 8's Accessibility Advantage: Colour Contrast
By Mike Gifford.
"...There have been a lot of little changes in Drupal 8 though to
improve colour contrast..."
https://openconcept.ca/blog/mike/drupal-
8%E2%80%99s-accessibility-advantage-colour-contrast
Alt Tags and Defaults
By Mike Gifford.
"...In Drupal 8, alt attributes are now set to required by default on
images. The same goes for such elements like user images and image
fields. Such a task in Drupal 7 would have required you to download
modules or modify the code yourself..."
https://openconcept.ca/blog/mike/drupal-
8%E2%80%99s-accessibility-advantage-alt-tags-defaults
+04: EVALUATION & TESTING.
How Much Time Does It Take to Create Personas?
By Kim Flaherty.
"The size of the company and the approach taken influence the time
needed to create personas. Data from 216 companies provide a baseline
to understand what affects persona-creation budgets and can help teams
estimate the time and cost involved in this process."
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/persona-budgets/
Picking the Right Data Collection Method
By Jeff Sauro.
"There's no shortage of methods available to the UX researcher..."
http://www.measuringu.com/blog/data-collection.php
+05: EVENTS.
OZeWAI 2015
November 25-27, 2015.
Canberra, Australia.
http://www.ozewai.org/index.php/en/
The Call for Papers is now open, inviting interested researchers to
present technical and communication papers. For further information,
contact Vivienne Conway at [log in to unmask]
International Day of People with Disability
December 3, 2016.
Online
http://www.idpwd.com.au/
Web Accessibility Training
December 8-9, 2015.
Logan, Utah, U.S.A.
http://webaim.org/training/
Confoo.Ca
February 22-26, 2016.
Montreal, Canada
http://confoo.ca/en
SmashingConf Oxford 2016
March 15-16, 2016.
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
http://www.smashingconf.com/oxford-2016/
+06: HTML5.
Thus Spoke HTML
By Steve Faulkner.
"For many of us HTML as a language is expressed visually and often
implicitly as graphical user interfaces (often dressed in fancy CSS
threads). For others it is an aural and explicitly expressed language,
one in which shape, color and decoration play little part, its meaning
is conveyed by words and interaction behaviours..."
https://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/10/thus-spoke-html/
Thoughts on "Notes from the future of HTML session at TPAC"
By Steve Faulkner.
"HTML is being discussed, again, at W3C..."
https://medium.com/@stevefaulkner/thoughts-on-notes-from-
the-future-of-html-session-at-tpac-1c2f6f204cea#.tkfkklo89
+07: JAVASCRIPT.
aria-pressed (State)
By Rakesh Paladugula.
"aria-pressed state is used to inform the user that an element is a
toggle button..."
http://www.maxability.co.in/2015/10/aria-pressed-state
Using the onInput Event Handler with onKeyup/onKeydown as Its Fallback
By Mathias Bynens.
"HTML5 standardizes the oninput event handler, which should be used to
detect user input in JavaScript..."
https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/oninput
The Traversal Order of Object Properties in ES6
By Axel Rauschmayer.
"The ECMAScript 6 specification defines in which order the properties
of an object should be traversed. This blog post explains the
details..."
http://www.2ality.com/2015/10/property-traversal-order-es6.html
ES6 Overview in 350 Bullet Points
By Nicolas Bevacqua.
"My ES6 in Depth series consists of 24 articles covering most syntax
changes and features coming in ES6. This article aims to summarize all
of those, providing you with practical insight into most of ES6, so
that you can quickly get started. I've also linked to the articles in
ES6 in Depth so that you can easily go deeper on any topic you're
interested in."
https://ponyfoo.com/articles/es6
+08: NAVIGATION.
Navigation - You Are Here
By Susan Farrell.
"You-are-here navigation consists of signs that help orient website
visitors as they explore the site. Many websites need stronger
location indicators."
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/navigation-you-are-here/
+09: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.
Web Performance Today
By Jeffery Zeldman.
"The principles of standards-based design will never change, no matter
how complex our web becomes. And as it becomes more complex (and,
arguably, much richer), it behooves us to squeeze every byte of
performance we can."
http://www.zeldman.com/2015/10/21/web-performance-today/
+10: USABILITY.
Object-Oriented UX
By Sophia Voychehovski.
"We know big, monolithic webpages won't meet the needs of responsive
sites and endless screens. But we're often still quilting together
design patterns and content modules, rather than truly thinking in
systems. Sophia Voychehovski shows us how defining the objects our
users interact with, and the relationships between them, opens doors
to more interconnected-and successful-user experiences."
http://alistapart.com/article/object-oriented-ux
Customer Centricity Leads to Purposeful Work
By Gerry McGovern.
"...Stop measuring and managing the wrong things. Manage use."
http://gerrymcgovern.com/new-thinking/
customer-centricity-leads-purposeful-work
+11: XML.
How To Manipulate SVG Text
By Steven Bradley.
"Last week I showed you how to create SVG text using the <text>
element. In the examples I added x and y coordinates to position the
text and the individual characters in a string of SVG text. There's
more to the <text> element..."
http://vanseodesign.com/web-design/how-to-manipulate-svg-text/
[Section one ends.]
++ SECTION TWO:
+12: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site?
Accessibility Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/accessibility.html
Association Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/associations.html
Book Listings.
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/books.html
Cascading Style Sheets Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/css.html
Color Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/color.html
Drupal Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/drupal.html
Evaluation & Testing Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/testing.html
Event Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/events.html
HTML Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/html.html
Information Architecture Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/architecture.html
JavaScript Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/javascript.html
Miscellaneous Web Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/misc.html
Navigation Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/navigation.html
PHP Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/php.html
Sites & Blogs Listing.
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/sites.html
Standards, Guidelines & Pattern Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/standards.html
Tool Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/tools.html
Typography Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/type.html
Usability Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/usability.html
XML Information.
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/xml.html
[Section two ends.]
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Laura L. Carlson
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University of Minnesota Duluth
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