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When watching the Adobe Max Conference keynote with Shantanu Narayen,

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Adobe, I became intrigued with the new announcements. Here is the synopsis.

• Adobe Sensei is about anticipating and solving problems. Enabling anyone, anywhere, to tell their story.
• Adobe Express will be provided to non-profits.
• Figma was acquired to advance product design, accelerate creativity on the web and reimagine the future of creativity, productivity and combat misinformation.

Adobe Max. What started out as a small group of designers and developers is now amplifying the power of creativity, art and science.

The presentation with David Wadhwani, the President of Digital Media Business at Adobe, shared his enthusiasm. He stated, ‘ It is amazing to see how much the industry has changed in 20 years. We are living in a time where creativity has never been more valued. The future of this industry creates amazing opportunities, but also many challenges.’

Adobe Express allows you to create content that stands out.

‘Creating with AI is like dreaming out loud. ‘ — Gavin Miller, Adobe Researcher

AI should enhance human creativity, not replace it. It should benefit creators, not replace them.

• You can now ask Sensei to turn day into night with one click utilizing neurofilters.
• Adobe Sensei allows us to express creative ideas more conveniently.
• Adobe Express allows you to create content that stands out.
• Doubling down on collaboration. Share for review capabilities.

The presentation with Scott Belsky sums up the capabilities of Adobe Express.

• Precision & Superpowers – AI isn’t just about saving time. It is about doing things you never dreamed were possible. The ability to create for 3D and immersive experiences. Substance 3D has allowed for these capabilities.
• Speed & Ease – Adobe Express is allowing us to create with speed.
• Collaborative Creativity – Every creative project has many stakeholders. Adobe is building a less complicated way to organize the process.

Danielle Morimoto and Bria Alexander present the share for review and creative features in InDesign and Illustrator. Danielle discusses the brand-new intertwine feature. This feature offers a more efficient way to combine an object with text on various layers without a clipping path. Bria gave examples of creative collaboration with share for review.

Paul Trani shares his thoughts on Adobe Express and 3D graphic design.

Creative pros today have to be capable of doing many things and doing them fast.

Adobe is bringing real time multi-collaboration to Express. It has dozens of photo editing tools. Seamlessly open your project in another program, such as Photoshop. Make your changes and then reopen in Express.

Paul then shares the power of 3D Graphic Design.The 3D Modeler for PC only, right now. 3D allows the designer to save a .sbsar file.Then it allows you to create a composite. The software is similiar to Photoshop, only with 3D capabilities.

Scott Belsky introduces the integration with Adobe Express and WIX. A partnership in creativity. He announces features in Premiere Pro.

In a world of social media and misinformation the (CAI), content authenticity Initiative, focuses on who made the content and how.

In the world of generative AI, the content authenticity initiative allows us to determine what was created by a human vs. a machine.

CAI tells us who’s story we are experiencing.

Adobe implemented Frame.io. In this solution you can circle part of the video in Premiere Pro. Then you know what frame the viewer is referring to.

Dylan Field presents Figma, a platform for product development teams.

Figma started 10 years prior with the belief that product design work should live in the browser.

We are in the middle of a multi decade shift from a physical economy to a digital economy.

Giovanni discusses Virtual Reality. VR offers the ability to switch modes.

Wes McDermott discusses Adobe 3D Substance painter.

Karina Anglada shares updated features in video. A repeat about how Frame.io is integrated in Adobe Premiere software. Jason Levine shares how easy it is to add markups and comments within the video software. Emery Wells shares how camera to web has revolutionized video work.

A presentation with Coca-Cola shares how they already utilize these techniques to keep the creative energy going.

For more about the conference, visit https://www.adobe.com/max/2022/.

This years WordCamp Europe in Porto, Portugal focused on the topics of WordPress security and accessibility for Dyslexia in UX Design.

Day 1, Track 1

Remkus de Vries (the MC for Track 1 and a lead organizer) introduces Milan Ivanovic.

Milan Ivanovic

Why we Community?

How many of you know where you were the day your life completely changed? For Milan, it was a day he attended a WordCamp in Leiden. He met a friend, Marco Pereirinha, that influenced him and told him about WP Portugal. He has volunteered since 2016. He watched a talk on Yoast. He calls it the ‘yoast effect.’

Why we enjoy this community?

There are heroes everywhere!

The 5 Benefits of Community

1. Knowledge
2. Support
3. Diversity
4. Inspiration
5. Resources

Day 1, Track 2

Victor Santoyo

7 years with Sucuri https://sucuri.net, Agency & Enterprise Team

They monitor and help protect websites in the event of an incident.

Hack research reports show thousands of websites they have cleaned.

Vulnerable plugins and extensions account for far more website compromises than out-of-date, core CMS files.

Many people update their software and find themselves infected anyway.

One type of software infected is WooCommerce. When software has a wide audience, infection is more likely to occur, because so many people are accessing it. Hack tools, or suites, empower an attacker to run automation to get access to websites. Some create mass enfacements that kill the availability of your website.

Anonymous Fox, Post infection tips

https://security.Net/guides/anonymous fox-hack-guide/

1. Disable the reset password by email for CPanel accounts.
2. Protect your public-facing admin pages.
3. Change your WP-admin user name back to its proper name.
4. Remove any bogus WP-admin administrator accounts.
5. Remove malicious email addresses from CPanel interface.
6. Reset the contact email back to default.

Ransomware

An attack encrypting the websites with a private encryption key. Then the victim receives an email that the site is encrypted and they can pay money if they want it back. It is an attack based on the third party of another.

Credit card skimming

A tool script used to steal credit card information and attack an e-commerce website. These are becoming more and more common. A global pandemic that forces people to leave home.

Ben Martin who is on the remediation team noticed in on-site checks in 2021 that more than a third of the websites that were pushed through the scanner had credit card skimmers detected.

The Log4j vulnerability was one of the most serious vulnerabilities affecting a large majority of the web in 2021. This critical server vulnerability impacted any website, application or hardware device using the software. Server administrators all over the world scrambled to identify and patch affected or potentially vulnerable systems before the attackers were able to compromise them.

SEO spam continues to be a menace. 52.6% of remediated websites contained some form of SEO spam in 2021. Spam also accounted for 34.45% of infected site hack detections.

Credit card skimming is on the rise.

Back doors are extremely common, with 60.04% of infected environments containing at least one website back door.

Forecast for 2022

Attackers spend more time crafting new malware for eCommerce environments.

Attackers have more to gain financially from credit card skimmers, than other types of infections.

The longer their malware is able to remain hidden, the more they stand to gain, encouraging them to craft new methods of evasion.

Unless there are major changes to the default security configuration of makorbCMS (such as making multi-factor authentication enabled by default in WordPress and having no default administrator URL enabled for Magento2 environments), we expect unprotected admin pages will continue to be attacked.

Day 2, Track 1

Accessibility for Dyslexia

Maja Benke https://www.twitter.com/majabenke

Web Designer & Consultant for Digital Accessibility

Webstyle4you.com

She travels the world and has a passion for bouldering. Maja has organized events in Berlin.

What is Dyslexia? It is a learning disability.

Accessibility

• A 11 y
• Dyslexia does not go away.
• Analaphebetism is not the same.

Characteristics and Particularities

• Sensitive to high contrast
• Bad short-term memory
• Creative
• 9-12% of the population
• Greater than 80% of those with learning disabilities have dyslexia.

Characteristics

• Reading, processing text
• Writing dictated text
• Words are spelled differently

Helping tools

• Paper
• Colored foil to reduce the contrast.
• Ruler, or second sheet.
• Digital – light, sepia or dark mode.
• Speech output for text.
• Firefox reader mode.
• Browser add-ons that can change fonts, size.

Font UI Accessibility

• Font size of at least 16 px.
• Line height of at least 1.5.
• Choose a readable font family.
• Font weight is regular.
• Use bold, italic and other text styles ( like color).
• Font used for dyslexia; Atkinson Hyperlegible.

It’s hard to read thin fonts. Transformation, like uppercase.

Choose a readable font family.

Layout

• Use white space generously.
• Loosen up text.
• Use headings in text.
• Use sections.
• Use lists.
• Don’t use justify.
• Centered text for short text only.

Colors

• Use high contrast.
• Background is not white, use eggshell.
• Font; not black.
• Use dark grey or dark blue.
• Offer a dark mode as an option.

Content creation for Dyslexia

• Write text.
• Don’t assume knowledge.
• The most important content is at the beginning.
• Summarize content concisely, and as briefly as possible.

Sentences

• One piece of information per sentence.
• Short paragraphs.
• Meaningful links and button. Avoid foreign words and filler words.
• Use active language.
• Plain language can help.

Abbreviations

Common abbreviations can help with reading. Correct spelling is important for a screen reader.

Don’t write out numbers and words, better to use digits.

Sentences

• One piece of information per sentence.
• Short paragraphs.
• Meaningful links and buttons.
• Avoid foreign words and filled words.
• Use active language.
• Plain language can help.

Gifs don’t let gifs run in an endless loop.

Animations

• Not text only.
• Support text with visual elements. E.g. graphics, images, videos, gifs and emojis.
• Visualize complex facts in graphics and diagrams.

Audio/video

Offer content not only in text, also as audio or video.

Developing for Dyslexia

• HTML5 and Settings.
• Mark up content areas and text properly, so that Tools work.
• Use the language tag.
• Search fields should tolerate typos.

Tips for Collaborating with dyslexic colleagues and contributors

• Summarize conversations when handing over a text or font. Force others to read out loud.
• Make sure colleagues can work without distraction.
• Neuroatypical peoole get distracted easily.
• Be respectful.

Click here to access the videos of WordCamp Europe, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91anxAgQGJw&t=3342s.

For more information on this topic, visit the the OKC WordPress Users Group presentor Tim Priebe, ‘My Website Has Been Hacked’ — T&S Online Marketing https://tandsgo.com.

The WCEU 2022 WordCamp featured these presenters, among others.

Remkus, Vries de. MC. Lead Organizer @remkusdevries remk.us/hi

Santoyo, Victor. WordPress Security. @v_santoyo securi.net

Benke, Maja. Web Designer & Consultant for Digital Accessibility https://www.twitter.com/majabenke

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