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 …