Glossary

Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.

13 results found in Accessibility Standards.

AccessForAll (Access For All, AfA)
AccessForAll is an accessibility framework originating from the IMS Global Learning Consortium and later standardized by ISO, based on the principle that accessibility is best achieved by matching con…
Accessible Documentation (Accessible Instructions)
Documentation - user manuals, help content, installation guides, release notes, API docs - produced in a form that can be read and acted on by people with disabilities, including blind and low-vision …
Airport Accessibility
The practices, technologies, policies, and physical design choices that enable travelers with disabilities to use airports independently and with dignity. In the United States, airport accessibility i…
CEA-708 (CTA-708, EIA-708, Digital Closed Captioning)
A US standard for digital closed captioning on digital television broadcasts and streaming, superseding the analog-era CEA-608 standard. CEA-708 supports richer presentation than its predecessor, incl…
Checklist Accessibility (Checklist Conformism, Checklist Compliance)
A critique of accessibility practice in which organisations treat accessibility as a set of discrete technical checks to be ticked off (alt text present, ARIA labels declared, contrast ratios met) rat…
Digital Resource Description (DRD, Resource Accessibility Description)
Digital Resource Description (DRD) is a component of the AccessForAll framework (standardized in ISO 24751 and IMS AccessForAll) that provides a structured way to describe the accessibility properties…
E-Commerce Accessibility (Accessible E-Commerce, Online Shopping Accessibility)
The degree to which online shopping experiences — product discovery, evaluation, checkout, fulfilment, customer support, and (on peer-to-peer platforms) selling — are usable by people with disabilitie…
ISO 24751 (ISO/IEC 24751, Individualized Adaptability and Accessibility in E-Learning)
ISO 24751 (Individualized Adaptability and Accessibility in E-Learning, Education and Training) is an international standard for matching the accessibility features of digital learning resources and e…
KWCAG (Korean Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)
The Korean national standard for web content accessibility, first published as KWCAG 1.0 in 2004 by the Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA). Modelled after WCAG, KWCAG adapts international…
Link Purpose (Link Purpose (In Context), WCAG 2.4.4, Link Text)
A WCAG 2.4.4 Level A success criterion requiring that the purpose of each link be determinable from the link text alone, or from the link text together with its programmatically determined context (su…
PDF Tagging (Tagged PDF, PDF Tags)
The process of adding a logical structure tree to a PDF so that assistive technologies can interpret the document's content, reading order, and semantics independently of its visual layout. Tags label…
Personal Needs and Preferences (PNP, Learner Preferences Profile, Access Needs Profile)
Personal Needs and Preferences (PNP) is a component of the AccessForAll framework (standardized in ISO 24751 and IMS AccessForAll) that provides a structured way to describe an individual learner's ac…
eIDAS (electronic IDentification, Authentication and trust Services, eIDAS 2.0)
A European Union regulation governing electronic identification and trust services across the single market. The revised eIDAS 2.0 regulation, adopted in 2024, requires each member state to provide a …