Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
26 results found in Accessibility.
- Academic Accessibility (Accessibility in academia, Scholarly accessibility)
- The degree to which the tools, publications, venues, and institutional practices of academic research and higher education are usable by disabled students, faculty, and researchers. Academic accessibi…
- Accessibility Checker (Accessibility Verifier, Accessibility Inspector, A11y Checker)
- A software tool that automatically evaluates an application, document, or website against accessibility standards and guidelines, identifying potential barriers for users with disabilities. Accessibil…
- Accessible Web Design (Accessible Web Authoring, Nonvisual Web Design)
- Accessible web design refers both to the practice of designing webpages that meet accessibility standards (such as WCAG) and — in a second, increasingly important sense — to the practice of enabling p…
- Affirmative Consent (Yes Means Yes)
- A consent model that requires explicit, active agreement to an action - typically framed as 'yes means yes' rather than the absence of refusal. Originating in sexual-violence prevention and adopted in…
- AgeTech (Age tech, Technology for older adults)
- A broad category of technology designed to support older adults in aging well, living independently, and managing age-related health conditions. AgeTech spans smart-home monitoring, voice assistants, …
- Borne-Accessible Document (born-accessible, natively accessible document)
- A document that is created accessibly from the outset—its semantic structure, headings, alt text, and tags are built in at authoring time rather than added later through remediation. Borne-accessible …
- Collective Communication Access (CCA)
- A framework developed by McDonnell et al. (2023) that reconceptualises communication access as a shared, co-constructed practice distributed across everyone involved in an interaction, rather than as …
- Computer-Using Agent (CUA)
- An AI agent, typically built on a Large Multimodal Model, that perceives a computer's graphical user interface through screenshots, reasons about on-screen context, and directly manipulates the interf…
- Consent (Informed Consent)
- Voluntary, informed, and revocable agreement by a person to a particular action or interaction involving them - whether that is sexual activity, data collection, medical treatment, research participat…
- Consent Model (Consent Framework)
- A prescriptive framework specifying how consent should be requested, given, sustained, and revoked in a particular interaction context. Examples include affirmative consent (explicit verbal agreement)…
- Digital Disability Divide
- The gap between people with and without disabilities in both access to and effective use of information and communication technologies. The term extends the broader concept of the digital divide to em…
- Digital Well-Being (Digital wellbeing, Digital wellness)
- A field of research, design, and consumer technology focused on supporting healthy, intentional relationships between people and their devices. Digital well-being spans screen-time tracking, attention…
- Do-It-Yourself (DIY, DIY Task)
- Tasks that an end user performs without professional help - commonly the assembly, setup, learning-to-operate, and troubleshooting of consumer products such as flat-pack furniture, kitchen appliances,…
- Embodied Skill Learning (Motor Skill Learning)
- A view of learning in which acquiring a skill - such as a sign language gesture, a musical performance, a sport movement, or a rehabilitation exercise - depends on coordinated bodily action rather tha…
- Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)
- An annual event held on the third Thursday of May to focus attention on digital access and inclusion for the more than one billion people with disabilities worldwide. Founded in 2011, GAAD is observed…
- Haptic Consent (Vibrotactile Consent)
- A consent model in which the request for, agreement to, and revocation of consent are communicated through touch or vibration rather than speech. Haptic consent is motivated by accessibility: many neu…
- Manipulable UI Component (Interactive UI Component, Actionable UI Element)
- An on-screen user-interface element that can be acted upon by the user — tapped, clicked, toggled, dragged, or typed into — as distinct from purely informational elements such as static text or images…
- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA, 2FA, Two-Factor Authentication, Two-Step Verification)
- An authentication pattern that requires two or more verification factors — something you know (password), have (phone, token), or are (biometric) — to confirm a user's identity. MFA substantially redu…
- Perceivability (Perceivable)
- The quality of information or interface elements being detectable through one or more senses — sight, hearing, or touch. Perceivability is the first principle of WCAG 2.0 and requires that information…
- Perceptual Guidance
- An instructional technique that directs a user’s attention to specific perceptual features of a target — most commonly color and on-screen location — to help them detect or disambiguate it. In accessi…