Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
8 results found in Design Tools.
- Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) (ATAG, ATAG 2.0)
- A W3C Web Accessibility Initiative standard that provides guidelines for designing authoring tools — such as content management systems, website builders, and code editors — that are both accessible t…
- Body Sheet (Body Map, Body Mapping)
- A body sheet is an outline drawing of the human body (typically front, back, and side views) used as a canvas onto which participants map bodily sensations, emotions, or symptoms. Originating in art t…
- CVD Simulation (Colour Blindness Simulation, Color Vision Simulation)
- A technique that transforms colours in a design to approximate how they would appear to a person with a specific type of colour vision deficiency. CVD simulations are the most widely implemented featu…
- CogTool
- A cognitive modeling tool developed at Carnegie Mellon University that generates quantitative predictions of human task performance times based on the Keystroke-Level Model (KLM) and the ACT-R cogniti…
- Colour Palette Generation (Color Palette Generation, Accessible Palette Generation)
- The automated or semi-automated creation of sets of colours that are distinguishable by people with different types of colour vision deficiency while meeting aesthetic and functional design requiremen…
- Empathy Tools (Empathy Aids, Empathy-building Tools, Age Suits)
- Empathy tools are physical or digital artefacts designed to give non-disabled designers a limited first-hand experience of specific impairments or ageing effects — cataract-simulating goggles, blurrin…
- 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…
- Simulation Glasses (Cataract Glasses, Vision Simulation Glasses, Low-Vision Simulation Goggles)
- Simulation glasses are wearable lenses or goggles that reproduce the functional visual experience of specific eye conditions — cataracts, macular degeneration, glaucoma, hemianopia, and others — by bl…