Web Design Update: October 4, 2023

[Laura Carlson]

+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
- Volume 22, Issue 15, October 4, 2023.

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?
https://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: JAVASCRIPT.
06: MISCELLANEOUS.
07: NAVIGATION.
08: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY.

SECTION TWO:
09: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site?

[Contents ends.]


++ SECTION ONE: New references.

+01: ACCESSIBILITY.

Form Accessibility and Usability Beyond the Basics
By Whitney Lewis.
"…In this article, we'll briefly go over form functionality that
websites often don't consider…"
https://blog.pope.tech/2023/09/26/form-accessibility-and-usability-beyond-the-basics/

How to Be an Accessibility Ally
By Meryl K. Evans.
"…Being an accessibility ally isn't just for the workplace. Everyone
can speak up and take action to improve accessibility…"
https://meryl.net/how-to-be-accessibility-ally/

Four Reasons to Give WCAG AAA a Second Look
By John Northup.
"…Here are my own top four AAA success criteria that deserve consideration…"
https://webaim.org/blog/wcag-aaa-second-look/

Overlays: Just Another Disability Dongle
By Ricky Onsman.
"…Overlays do nothing to address the underlying reasons for website
inaccessibility. Quite apart from questions of their efficacy, cost
benefits and legal status, they simply don't solve the problem…"
https://www.tpgi.com/overlays-just-another-disability-dongle/

User-Centered Web Accessibility: Recommendations for Ensuring Access
to Government Information for Older Adults
By Claudia Sofia Idrobo Cruz, Ember Ubeimar Martínez Flor, and Maria
Isabel Vidal Caicedo.
"…This study, accessibility recommendations for government web
applications and for older adults were evaluated using a website from
the Municipality of Popayán as a case study. The aim of the study was
to validate and adjust these recommenda-tions according to the needs
and characteristics of end users…"
https://revistas.ucc.edu.co/index.php/in/article/view/4593

Paris Web 2023: WCAGmire
By Adrian Roselli.
"I was invited to the 2023 edition of Paris Web as one of two
presenters speaking solely English. I did my best to script my talk to
hopefully make it easier for the captioners and live translators. As
of this writing, I have no idea if they will hate me or not…"
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/09/paris-web-2023-wcagmire.html

Leaders are Preparing Minnesota for a More Accessible Technology Future
By Jennie Delisi.
"The State of Minnesota is preparing to change their digital
accessibility standard…"
https://mn.gov/mnit/media/blog/?id=38-592504

Legal Update: September 2023
By Ken Nakata.
"…This month, we've got quite a bit to discuss…"
https://convergeaccessibility.com/2023/10/02/legal-update-september-2023/

US Supreme Court Acheson Hotel Case May Impact Web Accessibility Lawsuits
By Lainey Feingold.
"…This lawsuit is about a hotel's failure to post information on its
website about accessible rooms, which is required by the ADA. This
case is not about web accessibility but the court's opinion may impact
web access cases. The opinion is not expected until 2024…"
https://www.lflegal.com/2023/10/acheson-tester-standing-case/


+02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.

CSS Terminology Demystified (Video)
By Zoran Jambor.
"There are plenty of CSS terms that might be confusing and difficult
to understand properly; in this video, we'll cover everything you need
to know to get confident with basic CSS terminology, like declaration,
declaration-block, statement, and more…"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKfclpLSjME

CSS Subgrid
By Adam Argyle.
"CSS grid is a very powerful layout engine, but the row and column
tracks created on a parent grid can only be used to position direct
children of the grid container…"
https://web.dev/css-subgrid/


+03: EVALUATION & TESTING.

How to Compare Two Dependent Proportions
By Jim Lewis and Jeff Sauro.
"…For comparison of dependent proportions, the correct method is the
McNemar exact test…"
https://measuringu.com/mcnemar-exact-test/


+04: EVENTS.

Five Screen Reader Accessibility Tests You Should Always Do with Charlie Pike
October 11, 2023.
Online
https://www.tpgi.com/webinar-october-11-at-12pm-et-five-screen-reader-accessibility-tests-you-should-always-do/

Is Your Website Accessible? Learn What to Look For and Other A11Y Basics
October 11, 2023.
Online
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/is-your-website-accessible-learn-what-to-look-for-and-other-a11y-basics-tickets-720082725817

Web Accessibility Overview
October 18, 2023.
Online
https://accessingenuity.com/blogs/access-ingenuity-webinars/web-accessibility-overview-digital-accessibility-webinar

A2Y Conference
October 19, 2023.
Online
https://www.colorado.edu/digital-accessibility/a2y-conference

Accessibility Key Performance Indicators with Aaron Farber
October 25, 2023.
Online
https://www.tpgi.com/webinar-october-25-at-12pm-et-accessibility-key-performance-indicators/

A11y Diaries: Evolution of Visible Focus with Fahad Lambaste
October 26, 2023.
Online
https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/webinar-details?id=a0A4z000018z733EAA

Testing for Web and Mobile Accessibility Using a Screen Magnifier with
Priti Rohra
October 31, 2023.
Online
https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/webinar-details?id=a0A4z000018z73SEAQ

Using Chrome's Accessibility Tree for Manual Testing of HTML and ARIA
with Russ Weakley
November 2, 2023.
Online
https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/webinar-details?id=a0A4z000018z73XEAQ


+05: JAVASCRIPT.

Top 5 ARIA Implementation Errors
By Priti Rohra.
"…I decided to share the Top 5 ARIA Implementation Errors through this
blog post…"
https://www.barrierbreak.com/top-5-aria-implementation-errors/

ARIA, the Good Parts
By Hidde de Vries.
Hidde's Paris Web presentation materials.
https://talks.hiddedevries.nl/hDiDOG/aria-the-good-parts

A JavaScript Testing Journey
By Mathias Schäfer.
In software development, there are few topics as controversial as test
automation"…"
https://9elements.com/blog/a-javascript-testing-journey/


+06: MISCELLANEOUS.

MAdtech Point: If Advertising Will No Longer Run the Internet, Then
What Will Run the Internet?
By Gowthaman Ragothaman.
"…Amongst all this Worldwide Web Consortium is the most active one
that creates standards that enable the open web platform. The World
Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which leads development of the technical
standards and guidelines to ensure that the web remains open,
accessible, and interoperable, officially launched as a public
interest non-profit ogranisation as of January 1, 2023. After 28 years
of being hosted collectively at MIT and three other international host
organizations, W3C as it is called, have become their own entity.
Technically, still, no one entity or country owns the internet…"
https://www.forbesindia.com/article/storyboard18/madtech-point-if-advertising-will-no-longer-run-the-internet-then-what-will-run-the-internet/88169/1

Robots.txt
By Jim Nielsen.
"A few weeks ago, I saw a flurry of conversation about how you can now
disallow OpenAI from indexing your personal website using robots.txt…"
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/robots-txt/

Crawlers
By Jeremy Keith.
"A few months back, I wrote about how Google is breaking its social
contract with the web, harvesting our content not in order to send
search traffic to relevant results, but to feed a large language model
that will spew auto-completed sentences instead…"
https://adactio.com/journal/20515


+07: NAVIGATION.

In-Page Links for Content Navigation
By Huei-Hsin Wang.
In-page links, often embedded in the table of contents, help users
navigate to specific content sections on the same page. While research
showed increased user familiarity with the design pattern, carefully
consider content structures before implementation.
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/in-page-links-content-navigation/

GitHub Now Has a Setting to Underline Links
By Eric Bailey.
"…the most important takeaway here is that there is now choice where
there was none before…"
https://ericwbailey.website/published/github-now-has-a-setting-to-underline-links/


+08: WEBWASTE & SUSTAINABILITY.

Introducing the Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSGs)
By Łukasz Mastalerz, Tim Frick, and Alexander Dawson.
"This page contains a video recording of the (September 2023 TPAC)
presentation made during the breakout session, along with a
transcript…"
https://www.w3.org/2023/09/breakouts/recording-32.html

The Myth of Infinite Data Growth
By Gerry McGovern.
"As our environment comes under more and more pressure from the growth
demands of rich humans, more and more recognize that this growth and
overconsumption are the core problems we face…"
https://gerrymcgovern.com/the-myth-of-infinite-data-growth/

[Section one ends.]


++ SECTION TWO:

+09: 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.]


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Laura L. Carlson
Information Technology Systems and Services
University of Minnesota Duluth
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