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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 06:13:30 -0500
From: Laura Carlson <[log in to unmask]>
To: webdev <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [webdev] Web Design Update: October 1, 2015
+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
- Volume 14, Issue 14, October 1, 2015.
An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web
design and development.
++ISSUE 14 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: TOOLS.
09: USABILITY.
SECTION TWO:
10: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site?
[Contents ends.]
++ SECTION ONE: New references.
+01: ACCESSIBILITY.
My Slides from Accessibility Camp NYC
By Adrian Roselli.
"If the embedded slides are not working, you can get to them directly
at SlideShare. There is also a video of my talk (and all the other
talks) available..."
http://adrianroselli.com/2015/09/
my-slides-from-accessibility-camp-nyc.html
10 Short Videos to Improve Document Accessibility
By Deborah Edwards-Onoro.
"Yesterday Microsoft announced a 10-part video series focused on
improving the accessibility of documents. Each video is two-five
minutes long, highlighting specific tips for creating and editing
documents that are accessible for all..."
http://www.lireo.com/10-short-videos-improve-document-accessibility/
Discussion of U.S. and Worldwide Issues of Cognitive Accessibility
By John Rochford.
"Yesterday, Neil Milliken and Debra Ruh, members of the W3C's
Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force,
interviewed Andrew Imparato, Executive Director of the U.S.
Association of University Centers on Disabilities as part of their
AXSchat series..."
https://clearhelper.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/
discussion-of-u-s-and-worldwide-issues-of-cognitive-accessibility/
Making Your Website Design Accessible - Here's What a Blind
Accessibility Expert Has to Say on the Topic
By Karol K.
"Website accessibility is a tough topic. On one hand, there's a lot of
what can be considered common knowledge advice. But on the other, we
felt that if we're going to cover it, we need to go above that..."
https://blogs.adobe.com/dreamweaver/
2015/09/making-your-website-design-accessible.html
VoiceOver iOS HTML4, HTML5, & WAI-ARIA Accessibility Support
By Paul J. Adam.
http://pauljadam.com/demos/voiceover-ios-html-aria-support.html
ADA and the Web for Retailers - Technical Requirements
By Tom Toombs.
"... Notable recent settlements and consent decrees, including several
with the DoJ enforcement division, have utilized WCAG 2.0 Level AA as
the technical standard for accessibility. This lines up with other
Federal rulemaking in the U.S. and International regulatory activities
all of which point to the WCAG 2.0 AA requirements as the default
standards for digital accessibility..."
http://www.ssbbartgroup.com/blog/
ada-and-the-web-for-retailers-technical-requirements/
Legal Settlement Agreements that Reference WCAG 2.0
By Laura Carlson.
This page documents legal settlement agreements that reference the W3C
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.
http://www.d.umn.edu/~lcarlson/wcagwg/settlements/
IT Accessibility Risk Statements and Evidence by Topic
By Laura Carlson.
The purpose of this page is to help identify accessibility risks to
consider in risk management process. It provides Electronic and
Information Technology (EIT) accessibility risk statements and
evidence by topic.
http://www.d.umn.edu/~lcarlson/atteam/reports/litigation/risks.html
+02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
Back to the :roots
By Simon Simurai.
"The cascade in CSS is a curse and blessing at the same time. It
usually works quite well, but there are issues that let people get all
worked up and ask the question Do We Even Need CSS Anymore. I can
somewhat relate to that - but I also think it's not the cascade alone
and also about fighting specificity. Not running into issues with
specificity is hard. Almost as hard as pronouncing that word."
http://simurai.com/blog/2015/09/09/back-to-the-roots/
How To Nest Selectors And Properties In Sass
By Steven Bradley.
"Do you want to write CSS that's well organized, easier to read, and
easier to maintain? Nesting is a feature of Sass that can help you
keep related selectors and properties together to make your code more
readable and maintainable."
http://vanseodesign.com/css/how-to-nest-selectors-and-properties-in-sass/
+03: DRUPAL.
The Lost Art of Switchboarding/A HTML Savior
By Niels Matthijs.
"...I've been working on two separate projects, one made in Drupal 7,
the other one made in Drupal 8. While 8 is definitely more front-end
dev friendly, I pretty much ended up using the same methodology to
output the desired html. The approach I ended up with also taught me a
thing or two about how I wanted to structure my css work in future
projects. For a while now I've been meaning to rethink the way I
handle css, the Drupal work actually showed me a proper way to go
forward with that..."
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/switchboarding-between-cms-html-css
Is Drupal Dying?
By Neerav Mehta.
"wo weeks back, I was over at eBay when one of the product managers we
work with interjected "I will be really sad if 3 years from now, you
are still stuck in Drupal.".."
http://redcrackle.com/blog/drupal-dying
+04: EVALUATION & TESTING.
Mastering User Interviews - Never Ask Users What They Want
By Cassandra Michael.
"...Listening to your users can be one of your most powerful tools.
However, securing quality feedback that will propel your product ahead
of the curve requires a well-designed interview process..."
http://blog.usabilla.com/user-interviews-never-ask-users-what-they-want/
+05: EVENTS.
OZeWAI 2015
November 25-27, 2015.
Canberra, Australia.
http://www.ozewai.org/index.php/en/
Paper Submission: October 23, 2015.
Contact: [log in to unmask]
+06: HTML5.
Easy Content Organisation with HTML5
By Steve Faulkner.
"Typically designers and web developers divide web pages into macro
content areas (let's call them regions)..."
https://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/09/
easy-content-organisation-with-html5/
Sectioning Content in HTML5 - div or section or article?
By Ire Aderinokun.
"HTML5 was a major stepping stone for the concept of semantic code. It
really championed the idea that how your document is structured and
what tags you use should convey meaning to user agents. Among others,
the <section> and <article> elements were introduced as a way to
section your content in a more meaningful way than a regular <div>.
But when should we use these new elements, and when is a regular <div>
preferrable?..."
http://bitsofco.de/2015/sectioning-content-in-html5/
+07: JAVASCRIPT.
aria-posinset (property)
By Rakesh Paladugula.
"Aria-posinset property defines an element's number or position in the
current set of listitems or treeitems. Defining aria-posinset is not
required if all elements in the set are present in the DOM..."
http://www.maxability.co.in/2015/09/aria-posinset-property/
Script-Based Web Accessibility
By Cynthia Shelly.
"This is a proposal for a set of User Intention Events that build on
ARIA to extend accessibility functionality to complex, scripted web
applications. It supports use cases where markup-based solutions have
proven impossible, difficult or costly to implement."
https://github.com/cyns/wapa/blob/master/
ScriptAccessibility.md#script-based-web-accessibility
What Even is a Table? A Quick Look at Accessibility APIs (Video)
By Edd Sowden.
"Let's talk about how to make your single page JavaScript app
accessible to as many people as possible. We will cover the tools that
you have available to you today to ensure that you are doing the best
job possible. I will show how checking your accessibility isn't as
scary as you first thought and give you some practical tips and tools
you can use to improve your sites today..."
https://vimeo.com/139062429
+08: TOOLS.
NoSquint (FireFox Add-On)
By Jason Tackaberry.
"NoSquint allows you to adjust the text-only and full-page (both text
and images) zoom levels as well as color settings both globally (for
all sites) and per site."
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nosquint/
+09: USABILITY.
People Read Only 60% Of An Online Article
By Susan Weinschenk.
"Tony Haile (CEO of Chartbeat - a company that analyzes real-time web
analytics) analyzed 2 billion online interactions, most of them from
online articles and news sites, and found that 55 percent of the time
people spend less than 15 seconds on a page, which means they're not
reading the news articles..."
http://www.blog.theteamw.com/2015/09/28/people-read-only-60-of-an-online-article/
Flat Design - Its Origins, Its Problems, and Why Flat 2.0 Is Better for Users
By Kate Meyer.
"Flat design is a web-design style that became popular around 2012. It
is still widely used today, and its misuse can cause serious usability
problems. One of the biggest usability issues introduced by flat
design is the lack of signifiers on clickable elements."
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/flat-design/
Stop Your Team Using Technical Terms and Jargon
By Leisa Reichelt.
"Most weeks I am ridiculed by someone for insisting on plain language
- avoiding acronyms and technical language / jargon in particular.
People tell me that I'm slowing the team down by making them use
proper words, and that their end users or stakeholders expect them to
use technical language..."
http://www.disambiguity.com/
stop-your-team-using-technical-terms-and-jargon/
iOS 9 App Switching and the Back-to-App Button
By Raluca Budiu.
"App switching in iOS 9 can disorient users in multiple ways. Simple
design fixes can significantly improve the user experience."
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/ios-9-back-to-app-button/
[Section one ends.]
++ SECTION TWO:
+10: 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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