Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
13 results found in ARIA.
- ARIA Live Region (Live Region, ARIA Live)
- An ARIA live region is a section of a web page marked with the aria-live attribute that announces dynamic content changes to assistive technologies without requiring user focus to move to the updated …
- ARIA Live Regions (Live Regions, aria-live)
- ARIA live regions are areas of a web page that dynamically update with new content and use WAI-ARIA attributes to communicate those changes to assistive technologies. The aria-live attribute (with val…
- Accessible Name (Accessible Label, Acc Name)
- The text string that assistive technologies such as screen readers use to identify and announce a user interface element. The accessible name is computed by browsers following the W3C's Accessible Nam…
- Accessible Role (ARIA Role, Role)
- An accessible role is a property that defines the type and expected behavior of a user interface element as exposed to assistive technologies through the accessibility tree. Roles communicate what an …
- Accordion Interface (Accordion Widget, Collapsible Sections, Disclosure Widget)
- A user interface pattern that presents content in vertically stacked sections, each with a header that can be expanded or collapsed to show or hide the associated content. Accordions are particularly …
- Compound Controls (Composite Widgets, Complex Controls)
- User interface components that combine multiple interactive elements into a single logical control, such as a group of radio buttons, a set of checkboxes with a shared label, a combobox (combining a t…
- Landmarks (ARIA Landmarks, Page Landmarks, Landmark Regions)
- Designated regions of a web page that provide structural navigation points for assistive technology users. ARIA landmark roles include banner, navigation, main, complementary, contentinfo, search, for…
- Logical Navigation (Structural Navigation, Semantic Navigation)
- A non-visual navigation strategy in which a user moves through a web page by its semantic structure — jumping between heading levels, ARIA landmarks, skip links, form fields, or other role-tagged regi…
- Page Landmarks (ARIA Landmarks, Landmark Regions, Landmark Roles)
- Named regions of a web page that identify its high-level structure — for example banner, navigation, main, complementary, search, form, contentinfo — so that assistive technology can expose them as ju…
- Progress Bar (Progress Indicator)
- A UI element that visually communicates the proportion of a task, process, or timeline that has been completed. In media players it indicates playback position; in forms and wizards it signals complet…
- Widget Role (ARIA Role, Component Role)
- A property that identifies the type and purpose of a user interface element to assistive technologies. Widget roles communicate what a component is (such as a button, checkbox, slider, or tab) so that…
- Widget accessibility (ARIA widget roles, Custom control accessibility)
- The practice of ensuring that interactive user interface components — such as drop-down menus, tab panels, accordions, modal dialogs, and sliders — are operable and perceivable by users of assistive t…
- tabindex
- An HTML attribute that controls whether an element can receive keyboard focus and its position in the tab order. A tabindex of 0 places an element in the natural tab order, a positive value sets a spe…