Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
5 results found in Content Adaptation.
- Accessibility Annotation (A-Annotation, Accessibility Metadata)
- External metadata added to a web page to describe its visual layout structure, content groupings, and element roles for the purpose of improving accessibility without modifying the original page. Acce…
- Annotation-based Transcoding (Annotation-driven Transcoding, External Annotation)
- Annotation-based transcoding is a web accessibility technique in which a third party (not the site owner) authors a separate metadata file — the 'annotation' — that describes how to restructure or re-…
- Heuristic Transcoding (Rule-based Transcoding)
- Heuristic transcoding is the automated transformation of web content to improve accessibility, device compatibility, or readability using a fixed set of predefined rules that inspect the page structur…
- Semantic Transcoding (Annotation-driven Transcoding, Ontology-based Transcoding)
- Semantic transcoding is the transformation of web content using explicit semantic information about the structure, role, or meaning of page elements — typically supplied through external annotations, …
- Web Intermediary (Web Proxy, Transcoding Proxy)
- A system that sits between a user's web browser and the web server, intercepting and modifying HTTP requests and responses to adapt web content before it reaches the user. In accessibility contexts, w…