Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
6 results found in Accessibility API.
- Android Accessibility Service (AccessibilityService, Android a11y Service)
- The Android Accessibility Service is a system-level API that lets an app observe and interact with the UI of other applications on the device, exposing the hierarchical view tree (class names, text, b…
- Compound Document (Compound Web Document, Multi-format Document)
- A compound document is a single deliverable that seamlessly combines content in multiple formats — for example, an HTML page that embeds a Flash movie, an SVG graphic, an MathML expression, and a vide…
- IAccessible2 (IA2)
- An open accessibility API specification originally developed by IBM and donated to the Linux Foundation. IAccessible2 extends Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) to support the richer semantic infor…
- Role Attribute (ARIA Role, WAI Role)
- An HTML attribute that defines the purpose or type of a user interface element, communicating its function to assistive technologies. Originally proposed as part of the XHTML namespace-based approach …
- Tooltip (Form Field Tooltip, Accessible Name (PDF))
- In PDF forms, a tooltip is the programmatic label associated with a form field that assistive technologies read aloud when the user reaches that field. Unlike HTML, PDF does not have a native label-to…
- Windowless Mode (Flash wmode transparent, wmode=transparent)
- Windowless mode is a legacy Adobe Flash rendering option (wmode=transparent or wmode=opaque) in which the Flash player drew into the browser's graphics surface directly rather than into its own dedica…