Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
27 results found in Accessibility Tools.
- Surface Electromyography (sEMG, Surface EMG)
- A non-invasive technique for measuring the electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles, using electrodes placed on the skin over the muscle. Surface EMG is used in biomechanics, prosthetic contro…
- Text-to-Audio (Text-to-Audio Generation, TTA)
- A class of generative AI models that synthesise non-speech sound (environmental sounds, sound effects, music stems) from a text prompt - for example producing the sound of 'leaves rustling in wind' or…
- Thermo Pen (Thermal Pen, Heat Pen)
- A specialized drawing instrument that produces heat at its tip, used in conjunction with swell paper (microcapsule paper) to create instant raised-line tactile graphics. When the thermo pen is drawn a…
- Videoconferencing (Video Conferencing, Video Calling, Video Meetings)
- Real-time audio-and-video communication between two or more people over a network, typically mediated by a software platform such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, WhatsApp, or WeChat. Videoconfe…
- WebAIM (Web Accessibility In Mind)
- WebAIM (Web Accessibility In Mind) is a non-profit organization based at the Center for Persons with Disabilities at Utah State University, founded in 1999 and recognized internationally as a leading …
- XPath (XML Path Language)
- XPath (XML Path Language) is a query language for selecting nodes and computing values from XML and HTML documents. In the context of web accessibility, XPath expressions are used by assistive technol…
- aDesigner
- aDesigner is an accessibility evaluation tool for web designers, originally released by IBM in the mid-2000s. It combined automated WCAG checking with simulations of low vision (contrast loss, blur, c…