Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
52 results found in Accessibility Testing.
- Scenario-Based Evaluation (Path-Based Testing, User Journey Testing)
- An accessibility evaluation approach that assesses the complete user experience across a sequence of steps needed to accomplish a task, rather than testing individual pages in isolation. For example, …
- Screen Reader Proxy
- An interface that sits between an automated agent or testing tool and an application, translating programmatic inputs (swipe, double-tap, type) into genuine screen reader gestures and capturing the re…
- Semi-Automatic Evaluation (Semi-Automated Testing, Guided Manual Evaluation)
- An approach to accessibility evaluation that combines automated checks with human expert judgment. Semi-automatic tools run algorithmic tests to detect issues that can be identified programmatically —…
- Semiotic Inspection Method (SIM, MIS)
- An evaluation method from Semiotic Engineering theory that systematically assesses the communicability of an interactive system by examining how well the designer's intended message is conveyed throug…
- Sensitivity (Recall, Thoroughness, Completeness)
- In the context of accessibility evaluation, sensitivity (also called recall or thoroughness) is the proportion of true accessibility problems that are successfully identified and reported by an evalua…
- UWEM (Unified Web Evaluation Methodology)
- The Unified Web Evaluation Methodology (UWEM) is a standardized European methodology for evaluating web accessibility conformance with WCAG. Developed through EU-funded projects including the European…
- Virtual Auditing (Remote Auditing, Virtual Accessibility Audit)
- Virtual auditing is a method of assessing the accessibility of physical environments by remotely examining street-level imagery, such as Google Street View, rather than conducting in-person inspection…
- Vote Verification (Cast-as-Intended Verification, Recorded-as-Cast Verification)
- The ability for a voter to confirm that their vote was correctly cast, recorded, and counted — a core requirement for trustworthy electronic and online elections. Traditional code-based verification s…
- Web Accessibility Barrier (WAB, Accessibility Barrier)
- Any element, design pattern, or technical implementation on a web page that prevents or hinders people with disabilities from accessing, understanding, or interacting with content. Common web accessib…
- Web Accessibility Barrier Score (WAB, WAB Score)
- A quantitative metric for measuring the accessibility level of a website, defined as the mean value of the failure rate of accessibility checkpoints on a page, weighted by the priority of each checkpo…
- Web Accessibility Quantitative Metric (WAQM)
- An accessibility evaluation metric that calculates a quantitative score for a website based on automatically generated evaluation reports. WAQM computes the failure rate for each tested page, then der…
- Web Complexity (Page Complexity, Website Complexity)
- A measure of the technical sophistication and structural density of a web page, typically assessed by the number and types of HTML elements, scripts, embedded objects, and interactive features present…