Plug for Laura Carlson's Web Design Update

By Sarah Horton on August 21, 2009 1:26 PM | No Comments

Some time back I subscribed to Laura Carlson's Web Design Update, which is a nice, clean, plain-text email newsletter segmented into categories that mesh nicely with my thinking about web design:

• Accessibility
• Cascading Style Sheets
• Color
• Evaluation and Testing
• Events
• Javascript
• Miscellaneous
• PHP
• Standards, Guidelines & Patterns
• Tools
• Usability
• Typography

Now I don't know Laura Carlson personally, but her interests and mine seem to correspond. She is clearly interested in web accessibility, as her choices for the digest illustrate. For example, this week's blog entries from E-Access Bulletin Live on "web adaptability" versus "web accessibility." I was not aware of the bulletin, nor of the stir around the limitations of the WAI guidelines. I appreciated the note that "disability results from the interaction between persons with impairments and attitudinal and environmental barriers" - a good reminder to web designers to strive to reduce environmental barriers online.

I strongly recommend Web Design Update. It lands religiously in my inbox every Friday and brings me something new to consider, or, as in this case, an important reminder.