Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
27 results found in Accessibility Tools.
- Accessibility Checker (Accessibility Evaluation Tool, Accessibility Scanner, A11y Checker)
- An accessibility checker is a software tool that analyzes web content to identify potential barriers for people with disabilities, typically by testing against established guidelines such as WCAG or S…
- Accessibility Crawler (automated accessibility crawler, app crawler for accessibility)
- An automated tool that systematically explores an application's user interface—by simulating taps, swipes, and navigation—to discover screens and UI components and then evaluate each against accessibi…
- Accessibility Scanner (Google Accessibility Scanner, Android Accessibility Scanner)
- A testing tool developed by Google that scans Android app screens for common accessibility issues. The scanner checks for problems such as missing content descriptions on interactive elements, insuffi…
- Accessmonkey
- Accessmonkey was a 2007 client-side scripting framework, built on Greasemonkey for Mozilla Firefox, that let users and developers run site-specific JavaScript to repair inaccessible web pages on the f…
- Blackboard Ally (Ally)
- A commercial accessibility-checking and alternative-format-generation service from Anthology (Blackboard) that integrates with learning management systems such as Blackboard Learn, Canvas, Moodle, and…
- Brickfield Accessibility Toolkit (Brickfield Toolkit)
- An accessibility scanning and reporting tool for Moodle developed by Brickfield Education Labs. It is distributed on a freemium model: a community-edition set of scanners is integrated into the Moodle…
- Coh-Metrix
- A web-based tool developed at the University of Memphis that analyses text on more than a hundred measures of language, cohesion, and readability, including referential and semantic cohesion, lexical …
- Cursor Locator (Pointer Locator, Cursor Finder, Find My Cursor)
- A software utility that helps users find the position of their mouse pointer on screen when it has been lost from view. Cursor locators typically activate through a keyboard shortcut or by detecting p…
- Distraction Blocker (Focus app, Website blocker, Digital self-control tool, DSCT)
- A category of digital well-being software designed to restrict access to distracting applications, websites, or notifications so that users can sustain focus on work or study. Distraction blockers ran…
- ELAN (EUDICO Linguistic Annotator)
- A free, open-source annotation tool developed at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics for creating, editing, and searching multi-tier, time-aligned annotations on video and audio recordings.…
- Figma
- Figma is a browser-based collaborative design tool widely used for UI/UX design, prototyping, and design-system management. Its real-time multi-user editing, component libraries, and developer-handoff…
- FilterKeys (Filter Keys, Key Repeat Filter)
- An operating system accessibility feature that adjusts keyboard response to ignore brief or repeated keystrokes, helping users with motor disabilities who may accidentally press keys multiple times or…
- Graphviz (DOT, Graphviz DOT)
- An open-source graph visualization software suite that renders structural representations of graphs and networks from the DOT text specification language. DOT files describe nodes, edges, attributes, …
- Mermaid (Mermaid.js)
- An open-source JavaScript-based diagramming and charting tool that renders diagrams from a Markdown-inspired text specification language. Mermaid supports flowcharts, sequence diagrams, class diagrams…
- OCR (Optical Character Recognition) (OCR, Optical Character Recognition, Text Recognition)
- A computer-vision technology that converts images of printed, handwritten, or on-screen text into machine-readable character data. OCR is foundational to a wide range of accessibility tools: extractin…
- Pa11y
- An open-source automated accessibility testing tool that runs from the command line and in continuous-integration pipelines. Pa11y can drive either axe-core or HTML CodeSniffer as its underlying rule …
- Programming by Example (PBE, Programming by Demonstration)
- A technique in end-user programming where a system infers a generalizable program from concrete examples provided by the user, rather than requiring the user to write code directly. In accessibility c…
- Signbank (Auslan Signbank)
- An online dictionary and lexical database for a sign language, typically providing video or image entries for each sign along with metadata such as handshape, region, and usage examples. Auslan Signba…
- SlowKeys (Slow Keys)
- An accessibility feature that requires a key to be held down for a specified minimum duration before the keypress is accepted by the system. SlowKeys helps users with motor disabilities who frequently…
- StickyKeys (Sticky Keys)
- An operating system accessibility feature that allows users to press modifier keys (Shift, Ctrl, Alt/Option, Command) and have them remain active until the next key is pressed, rather than requiring s…