Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
7 results found in Image Accessibility.
- DALL-E (DALL-E 2, DALL-E 3, DALLE)
- A family of text-to-image generative AI models developed by OpenAI that produces images from natural-language prompts. DALL-E models are widely used by content creators, including people with disabili…
- Formal Analysis (Formal Analysis (Art))
- An art-historical method that examines an artwork's observable formal attributes — composition, color, line, light, texture, scale, space, and style — and how they are organized, independent of biogra…
- Image Processing (Digital Image Processing)
- The use of computational algorithms to analyze, enhance, transform, or extract information from digital images. In accessibility, image processing techniques are applied to convert visual content into…
- Image Segmentation (Region Segmentation)
- A computer vision technique that partitions a digital image into multiple distinct regions or segments based on shared characteristics such as color, intensity, or texture. In accessibility applicatio…
- Interpretive Alt Text
- Alt text that goes beyond objective, functional description to convey interpretive dimensions of an image such as mood, symbolism, narrative, and aesthetic effect. It is most relevant for images where…
- Tactile Imaging (Tactile Image, Tactile Image Conversion, Visual-to-Tactile Conversion)
- The process of converting visual images into tactile representations that can be perceived through touch, enabling blind and visually impaired users to access graphical information. Tactile imaging in…
- Web Mediation (Web Content Mediation, Web Accessibility Mediation)
- The process of automatically modifying web content as it passes between a web server and a user's browser, typically through a proxy server or browser extension, to improve its accessibility or usabil…