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Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 15:38:47 -0500
From: Laura Carlson <lcarlson@d.umn.edu>
To: webdev <webdev@d.umn.edu>
Subject: [webdev] Web Design Update: October 7, 2017
+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
– Volume 16, Issue 15, October 7, 2017.
An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web
design and development.
++ISSUE 15 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: EVALUATION & TESTING.
04: EVENTS.
05: HTML.
06: JAVASCRIPT.
07: MISCELLANEOUS.
08: NAVIGATION.
09: TYPOGRAPHY.
10: USABILITY.
SECTION TWO:
11: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site?
[Contents ends.]
++ SECTION ONE: New references.
+01: ACCESSIBILITY.
A Smartphone Accessibility Primer; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying
and Master Mobile Accessibility
By Kara Van Roekel.
“This is part one of a series of articles that will take you through
the basics of mobile accessibility for Android and iPhone, and help
you conduct an accessibility assessment on the mobile device of your
choice…”
http://simplyaccessible.com/article/smartphone-a11y-primer-1/
Five Ways to Make Usable Websites for People with Dyslexia
By Paul Crichton.
“we’ve put together a list of actions that we can all take to make our
digital content easier to use and understand for people with
dyslexia…”
http://whatusersdo.com/blog/ five-ways-make-usable-websites-people-dyslexia/
Good Design Was Always Accessible (Video)
By Sharlene King.
“For many designers, accessibility features are a checklist after the
first ideas, but the past reveals how design with the longest last
impact is often the most accessible. What can we glean from the most
iconic designs? How can our own work use access as a best practice
instead of a burden?…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjvz2iWRnD4
Planning & Producing Accessible Videos for Web, Social Media & eLearning
By Jennie Delisi and Jay Wyant.
Video and slides have are online from this July 20, 2017 webinar.
https://www.accessibilityonline.org/ada-tech/archives/110604
WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey 7
By Rakesh Paladugula.
“WebAIM screen reader user survey 7 is a study conducted by WebAIM to
understand the preferences of screen reader users…”
http://www.maxability.co.in/2017/10/webaim-screen-reader-user-survey-7/
JAWS Wide Open
By Steve Faulkner.
“…Recently we have been working with our colleagues at Freedom
Scientific to bring the same sense of open dialogue we enjoy with
other web software implementers to JAWS. This has taken the form of an
open issue tracker for the JAWS screen reader.…”
https://developer.paciellogroup.com/blog/2017/10/jaws-wide-open/
Accessibility Toronto Conference a Big Success!
By Dennis Lembree.
“The inaugural Accessibility Toronto Conference was a big success! The
event was held September 28-29, 2017 in the TELUS building in downtown
Toronto…”
http://www.webaxe.org/accessibility-toronto-conference-a-big-success/
Slides From A11yTOConf
By Adrian Roselli.
Adrian’s “Everything I Know about Accessibilty I learned form Stack
Overflow” slides.
http://adrianroselli.com/2017/09/slides-from-a11ytoconf.html
How to Create an Accessible PDF
By Patrick Loftus.
“There are countless programs that enable you to save a document as a
PDF. Not all of those programs, however, will produce tagged PDF
files. There is also more to making an PDF accessible than simply
adding tags…”
http://www.3playmedia.com/2017/09/27/create-accessible-pdf/
Rethinking Web Accessibility On Windows
By Marco Zehe.
“For the past 18 years, screen readers on Windows have had a
particular way of presenting web content to their users. This model no
longer scopes well in light of modern web applications and dynamically
changing web sites…”
https://www.marcozehe.de/2017/09/29/ rethinking-web-accessibility-on-windows/
Accessibility at Trivago
By Ian Devlin.
“Accessibility is an important topic for anyone who builds things for
the web, and one that is neglected far too often…”
http://tech.trivago.com/2017/09/26/accessibility-at-trivago/
Accessibility
By Information Technology Industry Council (ITI).
“…To assist government contracting officials and other buyers in
identifying tech products with accessible features, ITI has developed
the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template®, or VPAT® 2.0, a
reporting format that enables businesses to document product
conformance with relevant accessibility standards…”
http://www.itic.org/policy/accessibility
DOJ Halts Plan to Create Website Accessibility Regulations
By Roy Maurer.
“Careers sites, applications must still be accessible to candidates
with disabilities, advocates say…”
https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acquisition/ pages/website-accessibility-disabilities-regulations-doj.aspx
Microsoft Adds Automatic Alt Description to MS-Word
By John Eric Brandt.
“Apparently in the latest iteration of MS-Office 365, the Word
application now provides some ‘assistance’ when entering an
image/picture to a document by creating some suggested Alternative
Description language and a dialog box asking you, ‘How would you
describe this picture and its contents to someone who is blind? (1 – 2
sentences recommended).’ Then it gives you a recommended Alt
description (not very sophisticated, I might add) which you can/should
edit…”
https://jebswebs.net/blog/2017/10/microsoft-adds-automatic-alt-description-to-ms-word/
+02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
CSS Grid Gotchas And Stumbling Blocks
By Rachel Andrew.
“In March this year, CSS Grid shipped into production versions of
Chrome, Firefox and Safari within weeks of each other. It has been
great to see how excited people are about finally being able to use it
to solve real problems…”
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/ 2017/09/css-grid-gotchas-stumbling-blocks/
+03: EVALUATION & TESTING.
Stop Doing User Interviews. Start Having Conversations.
By Nicola Rushton.
“The case for relaxing in user research…”
https://medium.com/@nicola_rushton/ stop-doing-user-interviews-start-having-conversations-187dc3328bf
User Experience Research and Strength of Evidence
By Philip Hodgson.
“The concept of ‘strength of evidence’ plays an important role in all
fields of research, but is seldom discussed in the context of user
research. We take a closer look at what it means for user experience
research, and suggest a taxonomy of research methods based on the
strength of the data they return…”
http://userfocus.co.uk/articles/strength-of-evidence.html
Quantitative vs. Qualitative Usability Testing
By Raluca Budiu.
“Both these complementary types of user research play important roles
in an iterative design cycle. Qualitative research informs the design
process; quantitative research provides a basis for benchmarking
programs and ROI calculations.”
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/quant-vs-qual/
An Introduction to UX Benchmarking
By Jeff Sauro.
“…To start, benchmarking the user experience effectively means first
understanding both what benchmarking is, what the user experience is,
and then progressing to methods, metrics, and analysis…”
https://measuringu.com/benchmark-intro/
+04: EVENTS.
Politics and UX: Lessons Learned Working in Higher Ed (panel)
October 12, 2017.
Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.
http://uxpamn.org/event-2678450
CADET, NCAM’s New Caption and Description Tool
October 19, 2017.
Online
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm#october
Dare Mighty Things
November 3, 2017.
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
http://daremightythings.co/
DesignOps Summit
November 6-8, 2017.
New York, New York, U.S.A.
http://designopssummit.com/
London UX Conference
November 11-17, 2017.
London, England, United Kingdom
https://www.nngroup.com/training/london/
Intro to Audio Description
November 30, 2017.
Online
http://www.3playmedia.com/resources/ webinars/webinar-registration-11-30-2017/
+05: HTML.
The Future of Accessibility for Custom Elements
By Rob Dodson.
“When users of assistive technology, like a screen reader, navigate a
web page, it’s vitally important that the semantic meaning of the
various controls is communicated…”
http://robdodson.me/the-future-of-accessibility-for-custom-elements/
Inclusive Components
By Heydon Pickering.
“A blog trying to be a pattern library. All about designing inclusive
web interfaces, piece by piece…”
https://inclusive-components.design/
Web Components: The Long Game
By Alex Russell.
“Mikeal Rogers reached out last week to talk about Web Components,
which surprised me, but his follow-up blog post is essential, timely
reading…”
https://infrequently.org/2017/10/web-components-the-long-game/
+06: JAVASCRIPT.
aria-colspan Property
By Rakesh Paladugula.
“aria-colspan property defines the number of columns a cell spanned
within a table, grid or a treegrid…”
http://www.maxability.co.in/2017/09/aria-colspan-property/
+07: MISCELLANEOUS.
Essential Image Optimization
By Addy Osmani.
“We should all be automating our image compression…”
When Should You Use Which Image Format? JPG? PNG? SVG?
By Amber Wilson.
“There is a room that contains all there is to know about images…”
https://amberwilson.co.uk/blog/jpg-png-svg/
A Welcoming Classroom
By James M. Lang.
“In 1945 a disabled World War II veteran named Jack Fisher petitioned
the city of Kalamazoo, Mich., to make cuts in the street curbs in
order to allow him and other wheelchair users to navigate the city
more easily…”
http://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Welcoming-Classroom/241294
+08: NAVIGATION.
Creating Accessible Menus-Part 1
By James Williamson.
“I’ve recently been tweaking my site navigation to make it a bit
cleaner and more accessible…”
http://www.simpleprimate.com/blog/nav-1
Creating Accessible Menus-Part 2
By James Williamson.
“…In the second installment I want to finish up by taking an
accessible approach to both indicating the current page and making the
menu responsive…”
http://simpleprimate.com/blog/nav-2
Tabbed Interfaces
By Heydon Pickering.
“When you think about it, most of your basic interactions are showing
or hiding something somehow…”
https://inclusive-components.design/tabbed-interfaces/
+09: TYPOGRAPHY.
Keeping Track of Letter-Spacing, Some Guidelines
By Eric Bailey.
“In this post, I’m going to dive deep into a seemingly simple
typesetting topic-effective use of letter-spacing-and how it relates
to web typography…”
https://css-tricks.com/keeping-track-letter-spacing-guidelines/
+10: USABILITY.
Making Flat Design Usable (Video)
By Kate Meyer.
The hazards of flat design and 5 key UX guidelines for making flat
design usable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf42gvU9v80
First Impressions Matter: How Designers Can Support Humans’ Automatic
Cognitive Processing
By Therese Fessenden.
“The first visceral reaction to a site’s design influence how users
perceive relevance, credibility, and even usability. By incorporating
this knowledge throughout the design process, designers can make more
effective products.”
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/first-impressions-human-automaticity/
UX vs UI vs IA vs IxD : 4 Confusing Digital Design Terms Defined
By Cherry Happy Girl.
“Once upon a time, if you said the word ‘design’, the odds were
overwhelmingly likely you were talking about graphic design…”
https://medium.com/@xiaoyuzhao_69225/ux-vs-ui-vs-ia-vs-
ixd-4-confusing-digital-design-terms-defined-b1ef10e18fee
[Section one ends.]
++ SECTION TWO:
+11: 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
Information Technology Systems and Services
University of Minnesota Duluth
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