Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
20 results found in Content Accessibility.
- Accessibility Metadata (A11y Metadata, Accessibility Annotations)
- Structured information that describes the accessibility features, hazards, or access modes of digital content. Accessibility metadata can be embedded within content (such as alt text in HTML) or store…
- 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 …
- Anchor Text (Link Text, Hyperlink Text)
- The visible, clickable text within a hypertext link that is intended to describe the link's destination or purpose. Descriptive anchor text (e.g., "download the annual report") provides clear informat…
- Aphasia-Friendly (Aphasia-Accessible, Aphasia-Friendly Design)
- A set of design practices for making written, spoken, and audiovisual content more accessible to people with aphasia. Established principles (Rose, Worrall, Hickson, Hoffmann) include short sentences …
- Barcode (Bar Code, QR Code, 1D Barcode, 2D Barcode)
- A barcode is a machine-readable visual encoding of data — linear (one-dimensional, such as UPC or EAN) or matrix (two-dimensional, such as QR or DataMatrix codes). In a digital accessibility context, …
- Defluffing (Content Defluffing, Clutter Removal)
- The process of removing non-essential visual elements from a web page — such as banners, advertisements, decorative images, and sidebar content — to expose the core information content more directly t…
- Document Engineering (Document Design, Document Processing)
- Document engineering is the discipline concerned with the principles, tools, and processes for creating, managing, transforming, and presenting documents in ways that optimise their use across differe…
- Gist Summary (Gist, Page Gist, Web Page Summary)
- A gist summary is a brief, automatically or manually generated overview of a document or web page that captures its central theme or focus, enabling a reader to quickly assess the content's relevance …
- Intermedia (Intermedia Representation)
- Intermedia refers to a framework for information representation that supports diverse, adaptable, and flexible presentation modes, allowing the same content to be accessed through multiple alternative…
- Link Context (Anchor Context, Link Surrounding Context)
- The text and information surrounding a hypertext link that helps users understand the link's purpose and destination. For sighted users, link context is often apparent from the visual layout — heading…
- 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…
- Mind Map (Mind Mapping, Concept Map)
- A diagram that organises information radially around a central topic, with branches and sub-branches showing related ideas, supporting details, and their connections. Mind maps were popularised in the…
- Multimodal Summarization (Multimodal Summary, MMS)
- A technique for presenting information through multiple complementary formats — typically combining pictures, simplified text, and structural diagrams — to improve comprehension of complex content. Mu…
- Page Fragmentation (Visual Fragmentation, Content Fragmentation)
- A web accessibility problem where different types of content on a web page (news articles, advertisements, navigation menus, related links) are visually grouped using colours, spacing, images, and lay…
- Presentation Accessibility (Slide Accessibility, Accessible Presentations)
- The practice of designing and delivering slide-based presentations so that all audience members, including those with disabilities, can access the content. Key principles include verbally describing a…
- Presentation Independence (Presentation-Independent Information)
- The principle that information should be stored and served in formats that can be rendered in visual, auditory, or electronic text form without loss of meaning. Presentation-independent content has no…
- Shadow Page (Shadow Site, Text-Only Alternative)
- A separate, simplified version of a web page created specifically to meet accessibility requirements, typically offering a text-only or reduced-complexity version of the original content. While shadow…
- Table Linearization (Table Serialization)
- Table linearization is the process of converting a two-dimensional HTML table into a one-dimensional sequence of text for non-visual presentation. When a screen reader linearizes a table, it reads the…
- WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)
- An acronym for "What You See Is What You Get," describing a user interface paradigm where content displayed on screen during editing closely resembles the final output (such as a printed document). Wh…
- Web Authoring (Web Authoring Tool, Content Authoring, Website Authoring)
- Web authoring is the creation and editing of webpage content and structure, historically by writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and increasingly through graphical WYSIWYG tools (Figma, Wix, Squarespace…