Glossary

Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.

8 results found in Developer Tools.

Accessibility Inspector (Xcode Accessibility Inspector)
A developer tool included with Apple's Xcode development environment that allows developers and QA testers to audit iOS, macOS, and other Apple platform apps for accessibility issues. The tool can run…
Browser Developer Tools (DevTools, Web Inspector, Developer Console)
Built-in browser utilities that allow web developers to inspect, debug, and modify web pages in real-time. Features include DOM inspection, CSS editing, JavaScript debugging, network monitoring, and p…
Core Haptics
Apple's iOS framework for designing and playing custom vibrotactile patterns on iPhone using the Taptic Engine. Core Haptics lets developers synthesize transient 'taps' and continuous vibrations, vary…
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.…
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…
Syntax Highlighting (Code Highlighting, Syntax Coloring)
A feature of text editors and IDEs that displays source code in different colors and fonts based on the category of terms—keywords, variables, strings, comments, and operators are visually distinguish…
Syntax-Directed Editor (Structure Editor, Syntax-Aware Editor)
A code editor that understands the formal grammar of a programming language and uses this knowledge to guide editing operations. Unlike plain text editors, syntax-directed editors treat source code as…