In this week’s web design and development resources roundup, you’ll learn about content strategy 101, find out what’s in the WordPress 6.1.1 version, discover a mobile accessibility testing checklist, and more.
If you’re new to my blog, each Friday I publish a post highlighting my favorite user experience, accessibility, WordPress, CSS, and HTML posts I’ve read in the past week.
Hope you find the resources helpful in your work or projects!
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User Experience
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According to Baymard Institute’s large-scale ecommerce testing study, only 24% of sites offer a View All option in mobile main navigation. Which is an issue for users who want to access all top category layers in a product catalog.
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Not surprised with the latest research findings of the user experience of meeting software: Zoom and Google Hangouts are rated higher for usability than GoToMeeting and WebEx. Hard to believe GoToMeeting was the leader in 2019, before the pandemic.
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Content strategy is not content tactics or content marketing. As Anna Kaley reminds us in content strategy 101, content strategy comes before tactics. Sadly, many organizations fail to slow down and plan for content before it’s created.
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While many people know user experience improves the bottom line, they don’t always understand how user experience helps. Christopher Wong recommends you prepare an answer to educate team members on how UX helps them.
Accessibility
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Are you conducting automated accessibility testing? Mark Steadman and Noah Mashni share their insights on how to use automated test results to improve accessibility and drive change.
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Learn how Boston Children’s Hospital modernized the digital experience for parents and caregivers to improve accessibility when they revamped their enterprise website.
It required a lot of coordinated effort across the organization to get us to where we are today in terms of accessibility.
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Louise Clark returns to the Accessibility New York City meetup group on December 6, 2022 for Breaking into Digital Accessibility Careers: Part 2. The event is free and will be livestreamed with captions.
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Shoutout to Bruce Lawson for sharing his Mobile accessibility testing checklist (Google Doc). Stop waiting for the accessibility team to test your work; check it yourself with this checklist for keyboard accessibility, landscape mode, contrast, target size, screen reader accessibility, and more.
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Ken Nakata shares the 27-minute captioned video of his U.S. Law and Web Accessibility presentation at Educause Annual Conference 2022. Nakata discussed Title II and Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act, highlighting key cases.
WordPress
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Fifty bugs were fixed in WordPress 6.1.1 released this week. If you have automatic background updates, your site will have already been updated.
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Not official usability testing, share your feedback after you take the design exercise for a sneak preview of what’s next in the WordPress site editor. Submit feedback by December 2, 2022.
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Released by Automattic on both hosted WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress, Loudness is a new, free block theme based on the Block Canvas starter theme.
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What do you think about using WordPress as an alternative to Twitter? Mike McAlister offers a new design concept called OpenPress based on WordPress. Check out the concepts for the profile, publish, and update feed pages.
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In episode 43 of the WordPress Briefing podcast, Josepha Haden Chomphosy discusses Openverse and Photo Directory and how they’re different. And how they work together.
CSS and HTML
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In when our tools hold us back, Miriam Suzanne discusses the issues with design tools not supporting features like new color spaces and variable fonts. Which means designers using those tools can’t take advantage of those features.
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Thanks to Michele Barker’s web sustainability resources, web developers/designers can make informed decisions about combatting climate change by decluttering their digital life and saving data by using appropriate HTML and CSS as well as understanding the unintended consequences of well-intentioned designs.
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The November 2022 Behind the CSScenes provides updates on the latest at CSS-Tricks: new team member, weekly newsletter changed to monthly, and moving CSS-Tricks from WordPress to the CMS Digital Ocean Community uses.
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Good reminders on CSS best practices: 16 ways to improve your CSS skills quickly. Not surprised with the first one on the list: make your code readable with proper formatting and comments.
What I Found Interesting
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I like this idea! Is it something you’ve made a habit of? Mickey Mellen’s a great use of 30 seconds highlights Greg McKeown’s recommendation:
Immediately after every lecture, meeting, or any significant experience, take 30 seconds — no more, no less — to write down the most important points. If you always do just this, said his grandfather, and even if you only do this, with no other revision, you will be okay.
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Did you download your Twitter archive and then wonder how to view it? Check out the WikiHow post on how to use your Twitter archive file.
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For folks looking to transition from Twitter to Mastodon, I published five things I learned about Mastodon when I switched. One of my tips: use Pinafore web client rather than Mastodon’s web client.
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If your plans for the holidays includes buying Internet-connected devices, be prepared for reading complicated and incomprehensible privacy policies. One product, the Meta Quest Pro, has 14 documents consisting of 37,700 words.
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